Platform Engineer

Title                 Platform Engineer

Department      FIL India Technology - GPS Technology

Location          Bangalore, India

Reports To       Ritu Sharma

Level                Grade 4

About Fidelity International

Fidelity International offers world class investment solutions and retirement expertise. As a privately owned, independent company, investment is our only business. We are driven by the needs of our clients, not by shareholders. Our vision is to deliver innovative client solutions for a better future.

Our people are passionate, engaged, smart and curious, and we give them the independence and the confidence to make a difference. While we take pride in the excellence of our investment solutions and client service, we know we can always do better. We are honest, respectful and make tough calls, challenging the status quo to achieve better outcomes through innovation. Above all else, we always put our clients first.

Find out more about what we do, our history, and how you could be a part of our future at http://www.fidelityrecruitment.com/india/about-us

About your team

The Department is responsible for acquisition and distribution of data for GPS business including Web, Client Interface, Data, Record Keeping and Transfer Agency systems of the Distributions offering.  The core engine allows dealing, income distributions, payment processing, customer accounting and record keeping etc. The team works on data warehousing and distribution and now evolving to data lake concepts

About your role
This position is for a Platform engineer to work in the Data Analytics team within the GPS Technology group. The role will be responsible for implementing, deploying and maintaining multi-scale data analytics solutions in AWS Cloud to support the delivery of a variety of Data Analytics projects.Relationship management skills for the various business contacts for the area will be important to ensure a superior service to our clients is maintained.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and deliver technically robust solutions for assigned features including unit and integration testing
• Help in maintaining the standards, procedures and best practices in the team
• Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with security standards
• Monitor and optimize performance of applications and AWS resources
• Analyze logs and metrics to troubleshoot and resolve issues in production environment
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code to deploy and run API Gateway, Kinesis, Python Lambda, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, DynamoDB, Fargate, SageMaker, Glue
• Actively engage throughout the feature development lifecycle by reviewing pull requests and participating in agile ceremonies.

Required Skills

• 6-8 years programming experience in Python and Java with ability to write high quality code optimized for performance and scale
• Good knowledge of object-oriented programming and design patterns
• Experience with serverless architecture and functions
• Knowledge of event-driven architectures and microservices
• Knowledge of configuration management tools like Ansible
• Proficiency in containerization technologies like Docker
• Experience with CI/CD tools preferably Jenkins
• Strong knowledge of version control systems particularly Git
• Familiarity with Bash scripting and job automation in Linux environments
• Ability to triage problems, determine root cause and drive resolution
• Fair idea of Agile methodology, familiar with scrum ceremonies
• Good inter-personal, communication skills

Preferred Skills

•               AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) certification

Personal Characteristics

• Enthusiasm for an agile approach to development
• A real desire to do things the right way whilst remaining delivery focused
• Innovative and enthusiastic about business/financial domain and using it appropriately to solve problems
• Good interpersonal skills, confidence and ability to interact professionally with people at all levels
• Motivated, flexible and with a ‘can do’ approach
• Team player with commitment to achieve team goals
• Disciplined and conscientious approach
• Ability to handle complex and challenging analysis and be able to define a suitable approach to handle the complexity.
• Ability to prioritise work and deliver in a complex
• Keen to learn and develop proficiency
• Ability to thrive in a rapidly changing and expanding environment
• Strong desire to continually expand knowledge and learn new skills

Feel rewarded

For starters, we’ll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We’ll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we’ll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work – finding a balance that works for all of us. It’s all part of our commitment to making you feel motivated by the work you do and happy to be part of our team. For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.

For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.