AWM - Birmingham - Associate - Software Engineer location_on Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
What We Do
At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.
Who We Look For
Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in risk management, big data, mobile and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.
Asset & Wealth Management
The Asset & Wealth Management Division includes Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), Private Wealth Management (PWM) and Marcus Savings & Invest businesses (MS&I). We provide asset management, wealth management and banking expertise to consumers and institutions around the world. AWM partners with various teams across the firm to help individuals and institutions navigate changing markets and take control of their financial lives.
In this role you will
* Build highly available systems based on a microservices architecture
* Collaborate with Application Development Engineers, Technology Infrastructure teams and vendor teams to ensure that the solutions being implemented are scalable and highly automated, from infrastructure provisioning to code deployment, and support
* Automate activities and operations to make processes faster and more efficient
* Uplift existing services from the firm private cloud to the latest technologies on public cloud
* Troubleshoot problems encountered by both technology teams as well as end users of our applications
Skills and experience we are looking for
* Minimum 2 years of relevant professional experience
* B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)
* Advanced experience in Systems Engineering
* Experience with Software Development in a Linux environment, Shell scripting, Perl/Python
* Understanding of the Agile development methodology
* Experience with any of these tools: Github, Terraform, Jenkins, Bamboo, BitBucket, Chef, Ansible, PowerShell
* Experience with deploying code to production systems and building out blue/green deployment infrastructure and accompanying automation techniques
* Energetic, self-directed and self-motivated, able to build and sustain long-term relationships with clients and colleagues
* Exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions
* Strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to a broad team
* Can manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing
* Strong verbal and written communication skills
* Cloud infrastructure expertise, preferably AWS
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with log aggregation (Splunk, ELK, etc)
* Experience managing Kafka as messaging middleware
* Familiarity with high-scale NoSQL solutions like MongoDB
* Knowledge of compute, storage, firewalls and networking fundamentals
* Expertise in delivering SOA or microservices architecture
* Understanding of principles of Continuous Delivery, Devops and SRE
Fintech experience will be a great asset.
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