What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Associate - DevOps position at MSCI?
Your Team Responsibilities
We are building cutting-edge software and data workflows to identify and analyze the exposure and impact to climate change. Clients from across the capital ecosystem use our integrated data, analytical tools, indexes and insights for a clear view of the climate transition.
We are seeking an outstanding DevOps Engineer to join our team in the Pune/Mumbai or Budapest offices. Our department fosters a DevOps culture across all teams, but ours's have a dedicated expertise in it. We support multiple software development and research-focused teams, enabling fast time to market while ensuring high quality and compliance with company regulations in security, resiliency, cost, and governance aspects. Additionally, we continuously modernize our architecture and setup to benefit from industry standards.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure, including new project build-outs and re-architecting as needed.
- Implement infrastructure as code to ensure efficient operations, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Develop and enhance observability systems (logging, metrics, alerting, tracing) to monitor system performance and reliability.
- Manage security and cost aspects of cloud infrastructure, ensuring compliance with company regulations.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD processes, including test and build environment setup, modernization, and support.
- Define and implement branching and release strategies to streamline development workflows.
- Closely collaborate with Product Management, Research and Product Development, Quality Assurance, Data Operation and IT Infrastructure on all stages of software development life cycle.
Your skills and experience that will help you excel
Must have:
- 7 years of hands-on experience in DevOps or related fields.
- Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
- Expertise in Shell scripting, git for source code management and working in Linux environments.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform.
- Programming experience in Python.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, particularly Azure and GCP.
Keen to have:
- Experience with CI/CD processes and tools such as Azure DevOps.
- Knowledge of observability tools including Prometheus and Grafana.
- Understanding of authentication and authorization systems.
- Exposure to data processing frameworks like Databricks and Spark
- Being flexible in technology adaption
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
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. 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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