Devops Engineer

A Career with Point72’s TechnologyTeam

As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology group is constantly improving our company’s IT infrastructure, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts experimenting, discovering new ways to harness the power of open source solutions, and embracing enterprise agile methodology. We encourage professional development to ensure you bring innovative ideas to our products while satisfying your own intellectual curiosity. Our Technology Infrastructure Team engineers and operates the foundational technology platforms that power all of Point72’s applications and businesses.

Our disciplines span a broad array of technologies from datacenter infrastructure to large scale cloud services, with the shared goal of providing the most reliable, performant, modern technology platforms to improve time-to-market for our business. We also deliver end-user technology solutions to support the evolving collaboration and productivity needs of our global teams. Our team focuses on innovation and challenging the current state of our infrastructure technology in a fast-paced, dynamic, and collaborative working environment.

What you’ll do

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be part of team responsible for establishing and maintaining the Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) automation plant to support Point72’s Software Engineering team. You will work with a cross-functional team to deliver scalable automation solutions to enable rapid development, configuration management of source code, and support test, deployment, and production sustaining activities. Specifically, you will:

• Work closely with the development team to understand the solution architecture and build requirements to properly build CICD pipelines templates
• Join a growing team establishing the platform of the future for the build and deployment of infrastructure as code
• Help establish best practices for code deployment to on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure
• Help establish best practices for integrating unit testing as part of the automated build pipeline
• Work with development teams to create flexible architectures that can ensure capacity for traffic spikes
• Work closely with our internal software developers, external partners, and service providers to ensure our systems are stable, reliable, and provide a fast, responsive experience for our customers

What’s Required

• Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
• Work experience programming in Python, Java, C#, C, C++, or Golang
• Proficient experience/knowledge with Cloud technologies AWS 
• Work experience using build tools (e.g., make, maven, gradle)
• Strong knowledge of software configuration management systems and version control software, preferably git
• Expert knowledge of Jenkins including experience using pipeline as code (groovy) or have expert knowledge in another CI/CD engine (e.g. TeamCity, Gitlab, Github Actions)
• Ability to read build output and help clients see why a build failed.
• Work experience automating releases via Terraform, Ansible, shell scripts et al
• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes (especially EKS)
• Expert knowledge of AWS Cloud
• Previous experience with Databricks product
• Strong understanding of test processes and test strategies including test automation
• Commitment to the highest ethical standard

We Take Care of Our People

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide: 

• Sports card 
• Private life insurance  
• Private medical and dental care, with vision allowance 
• Private pension scheme  
• Volunteer opportunities  
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBT+ community  
• Business travel accident insurance 
• Employee assistance program 
• Educational assistance reimbursement 

About Point72

Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry’s brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people’s long-term growth. For more information, visit www.Point72.com/about.