Global Banking & Markets, Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET) DevOps En

at  Goldman Sachs

GOLDMAN SACHS

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for strong engineers in the GSET DevOps space. The team owns the production plant and manages systems that process billions of dollars’ worth of trades every day. The team works to continuously improve processes and tools to achieve a quicker time to market for changes, increased stability, and reduced toil. The team also incorporates aspects of software engineering and applies it to trading operations problems. We push our own boundaries and challenge the status quo in others. Our main goal is to create scalable and resilient trading systems through best-in-class software change management. Our team supports and enhances user acceptance and production environments that are leveraged by clients and internal users for testing software and daily use.We want technical people that communicate well and have a passion for efficiency and automation, continually looking for ways to improve. As part of this effort, they will be expected to collaborate with colleagues across the world.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Productive in programming with a focus on scripting and infrastructure as code
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic production environment
• Ability to challenge status quo and automate manual tasks
• Ability to drive complex change to completion in collaboration and independently
• Knowledge of basic networking concepts, topologies, and technologies
• Experience in working and supporting production platforms
• Experience or willingness to quickly learn large-scale automated testing and releasing
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• C++ programming experience
• Hands-on experience in the release processes of large-scale software applications
• Good understanding of software development life cycle processes
• Strong grasp of computer networks with a good understanding of TCP/IP
• Application support experience within Linux environments
• Experience in application monitoring, performance, and capacity management in large-scale systems
• Working knowledge of order management systems

• Ownership of our production services by measuring and monitoring availability, response times, and overall system health.
• Building tools for reducing toil and enhancing process efficiencies
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and release reviews.
• Responsible for the successful deployment of certified code and new functionality into the production trading environment
• Facilitate communications between trading desks, strategists, engineers, and other support teams to manage unexpected or day-to-day issues
• Continuously improve availability, stability, and performance of systems
• Coordinate the analysis, troubleshooting and resolution of system issues via postmortems