Data DevOps Engineer

Your Team Responsibilities

MSCI has embarked on an ambitious program to create our next generation Fixed Income Indices, which builds on MSCI’s vast Analytics and Index capabilities

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Devops Engineer to join our team and contribute to this next generation solution. As a member of an agile team you will build high performance and scalable services primarily using various programming language and technologies. These services will provide an efficient and comprehensive gateway into our Indices group. You will work within global team of highly skilled Software, Data and Devops Engineers. Additionally, you will have significant interaction with the Developers and Testers working on our teams all over the world.

Candidates for this position should be passionate about building high quality software and contributing to architecture design discussions. You should have strong analytical skills and a desire to go deep with knowledge and understanding of topics on technologies and financial area, and motivated to work in a high-performance team. Our new team member should also play a key role in migration project of current system to cloud native solution so experiences with any cloud provider, containerization or container orchestration is a plus.  Due to the recent pandemic and our priority on the safety and health of our employee, MSCI is currently implementing Work-From-Home program.  MSCI will provide the necessary equipment and technology for our employee.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Improve and create a modern cloud-native platform using latest technologies and following industry best practices
• Continuously improve the monitoring an alerting system, using tools like Grafana, PagerDuty or Azure Monitor
• Evaluate different Architectural & Design approaches, solutions, frameworks & technologies and recommend the most suitable one
• Develop best practices for architecture, design, coding & automated test coverage
• Architect, design and deploy secure, high performance, scalable & maintainable applications using appropriate architectural patterns and modernized technologies
• Ensure optimal availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of real-time application development by advocating engineering reliability into the development life cycle with a focus on fault tolerant approaches
• Develop and maintain CICD environment of our applications in Azure Devops

Your skills and experience that will help you excel

• 1+ year experience with any major cloud provider, preferably Azure or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with application monitoring and alerting systems
• 1+  experience with containerization and container orchestration technologies preferably Docker and Kubernetes.
• 1+ year experience with one or more of the following languages: Python, Bash, SQL, PowerShell, Perl
• 1+ year experience with one of following relational databases, Oracle/Sybase/MSSQL
• 1+ year experience in source code management with Git
• Proficient in at least one Linux distribution
• Experience with workflow orchestrator systems, such as Airflow or Autosys
• Working experience with agile methodology
• Degree qualification in Computer Science or related field

About MSCI

What we offer you

• Transparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing.

• Flexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces.

• A culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results.

• A global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients.

• Global Orientation program to kickstart your journey, followed by access to our Learning@MSCI platform, LinkedIn Learning Pro and tailored learning opportunities for ongoing skills development.

• Multi-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded roles.

• We actively nurture an environment that builds a sense of inclusion belonging and connection, including eight Employee Resource Groups. All Abilities, Asian Support Network, Black Leadership Network, Climate Action Network, Hola! MSCI, Pride & Allies, Women in Tech, and Women’s Leadership Forum.

At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our purpose – to power better investment decisions. You’ll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.

MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.

MSCI Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce. It is the policy of the firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy (including unlawful discrimination on the basis of a legally protected parental leave), veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. MSCI is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please email Disability.Assistance@msci.com and indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Please note, this e-mail is intended only for individuals who are requesting a reasonable workplace accommodation; it is not intended for other inquiries.

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