Join Our Team as a Senior Systems Engineer
We are seeking an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to join EPAM and support our client in the financial services sector at their Zurich office.
The ideal candidate will be engaged in developing an investment platform, which serves as a strategic solution for investment products and client portfolio management across Switzerland, EMEA, and APAC. This system is a multi-tier resilient enterprise cluster, utilizing a combination of open-source, vendor, and proprietary technologies. Over 15 applications are built on a platform that incorporates technologies such as RHEL, Spring Stack, Container Runtime, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Ignite, Oracle, Ansible, Eclipse RCP, React, Angular, and Prometheus/Grafana.
Seize this exciting opportunity and help shape the future of quality engineering at EPAM.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with technical experts, architects, and business teams to align technical solutions with functional requirements and strategic initiatives.
- Maintain and upgrade existing Platform OS integration components.
- Enhance existing Platform service implementations.
- Contribute to the Platform Modernization efforts.
- Analyze outages and defective states, initiating and monitoring remedial measures (3rd level support).
- Perform installations on test environments and manage orders for production installations.
- Provide consultancy and support to the project team regarding technical inquiries.
- Maintain relevant operational documentation (operation manuals, installation guides, etc.) and share knowledge with the team.
Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar role focused on maintaining environments hosted on Linux operating systems.
- A broad technical skill set, including in-depth knowledge of Linux operating systems and hands-on experience with Java, Apache web server, Tomcat, and Kafka.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Perl, Python, or Bash.
- A detailed understanding of DevOps pipelines and hands-on expertise in configuration management tools.
- Experience with Agile methodologies.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities, with the capability to independently analyze and address issues in time-sensitive situations.
- A solid understanding of web application architecture.
- Good DevOps skills, including package creation and deployment.
- A basic understanding of networking concepts, including firewall rules.
- Proficient communication skills in English are essential; knowledge of German is a significant advantage.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and GitLab-CI.
- Database knowledge, preferably Oracle, with MSSQL as an advantage.
- Java programming knowledge.
- Experience with Azure cloud services.
Apply online using the form below. Please note that only applications matching the job profile will be considered.