Associate| Data Movement Cloud Engineer

Senior Engineer
The Information Systems Engineer designs information systems that are appropriate for users' needs and consistent with the overall design of the organization's information systems architecture. Under limited supervision, this job is responsible for the installation, configuration and maintenance of the organization's operating systems.

Key Responsibilities and Duties
• Formulates system scope through research and fact-finding to develop or modify moderately complex information systems.
• Evaluates and implements changes to existing system logic difficulties and documentation as necessary.
• Reviews flow charts, models, and procedures and feasibility studies to design possible system solutions.
• Reviews technical documentation to guide system users and to assist with the ongoing operation, maintenance, and development of the system.
• Collaborates with system analysts, engineers, and programmers to design systems and to determine project limitations and capabilities performance requirements, systems performance standards, and interfaces.
• Identifies and documents all system constraints, implications and consequences of various proposed system changes.
• Educates end users on system designs and functionalities through creation of training materials and conducting demos.
• Evaluates the efficiency and effectiveness of application operations and troubleshooting problems.
Educational Requirements
• Bachelor's Degree Required
Work Experience
• 3+ Years Required; 5+ Years Preferred
Physical Requirements
• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level
7IC

Job Title: Associate (Data Movement Engineer)

Job Family: Infrastructure Service Delivery

Position Summary: Describe below the primary purpose and function of this job

Provides Engineering Automation Services for business critical applications for different Messaging, Managed File transfer, Streaming and Integration application like IBM MQ, Confluent Kafka, ETL tools, Sterling Integrator

Provide technical services (Architect, Install and Configure) and coordination with core infrastructure teams including server, network, storage, Software and middleware.

Must to Have: Ansible, Python, Git, terraform

Good to Have: Confluent Kafka, talend, Apache NiFi, AWS (SA Certified),OpenShift, Sterling Integrator

Key Duties & Responsibilities: List up to 5 key duties and responsibilities, management responsibilities and time spent (if applicable)
• Must have strong understanding of Linux, networking and production systems
• Should have 3+ years of experience building and maintaining infrastructure and services or are a quick learner
• Should have strong problem solving skills, optimizing for the simplest, most robust yet practical solutions.
• Should have experience with orchestration systems such as OpenShift Kubernetes, or ECS
• Strong experience in building Automated Deployments and CI/CD pipelines for Cloud
• Should have hands on Experience in Terraform/Ansible implementation & Managing Infrastructure as Code.
• Should have Hands on Experience in python scripting, scheduling tools & experience in implementing operational automations.
• Must have 3-4 years of experience working with AWS Services
• Should have good understanding and knowledge of IaaS, SaaS and PaaS services and platforms
• Ability to perform benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning
• Should have working knowledge of High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR) architecture best practices.
• Should have Development and Engineering mindset along with knowledge of different flavors of Messaging, Streaming & Integration workloads and how different tools and services are integrated.
• Should have working knowledge of Monitoring tools like Splunk, Prometheus and deploy monitoring scenarios, alerts and has good knowledge of best practices
• Should have Skill in examining and re-engineering operations and procedures
• Ability to detect and troubleshoot Server related CPU, Memory, I/O, disk space and other resource contention.
• Should have working knowledge on Cloud watch, Cloud trail and how it works with different AWS services.
• Should have working knowledge of Backup and Recovery best practices.
• Should have good understanding of product life cycle management.
• Should have good written and verbal communication.
• Should have working knowledge on documentation like updating confluence, creating KBs, runbooks etc.
• Should have strong knowledge of process to be followed for provisioning, configuration, patching and upgrades of AWS Services. How provisioning work in AWS, step required for configuration of AWS services with basic setup, how patching and upgrade process works for AWS services.
• Strong experience tool upgrades from one version to another version.
• Troubleshoots and resolve issues through the use of technical abilities and tools
• Provide 16 x 7 system administration support for all of production and remote site systems.
• Solid acquaintance with Linux server with understanding of basic commands and service configurations.
• Quick learner and should be ready to learn new things along with working on it.
• Willingness to work off-hours and weekends to accommodate implementation requirements.
• Candidates must be able to work independently, be organized, self-motivated, inquisitive problem-solvers with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Management/Leadership Responsibility: Is management of people a primary focus of the role? If so, how many direct and indirect employees are managed? Do any of them manage a function or process?
• Ensures stability and reliability of infrastructure components through proactive maintenance and incident resolution
• Improves and automates tasks associated with building, configuring, patching, and upgrading core infrastructure platforms, hardware, and software
• Operation and maintenance of core infrastructure platforms and cross-platform integration support
• Implements new infrastructure components in a systematic manner adhering to established standards
• Continual service improvement of infrastructure platforms
• Full ownership for one or more processes, procedures or products.
Makes recommendation’s and work assignments
• Good knowledge of ITIL process
• Drives problems to root cause through partnership with Application Development and engineers, ensuring knowledge is captured for future events

Budget Responsibility: Does the position have responsibility for Revenue, Operating (expense) Budget, etc.? If so, what is the scope?

N/A

Impact:

Nature of Impact - To what degree does this job affect the business (i.e., through interactions with customers, making decisions, defining or setting strategy, etc.)?

Area of Impact - What is the breadth of the impact that this job has, either positive or negative (i.e., affects own team, department, function, business unit, geography, entire business, etc.)?

Problem Solving: What is nature and complexity of the problems or decisions encountered? Are analytical skills needed?
• Drives problems to root cause through partnership with Application Development and engineers, ensuring knowledge is captured for future events

Functional Knowledge: What knowledge of concepts, process, principles or procedures is needed within discipline; SME?

Business or Industry Expertise: Describe the degree of knowledge and understanding required of TIAA’s business and industry, commercial environment and of competitors products and services.

● 3-4 years of relevant work experience

Interactions / Interpersonal Skills: Describe the nature and level of interactions this job has with others, both internally and externally. Explain any specific interpersonal skills necessary to successfully perform this role (i.e., negotiation skills, represents business at external events or to governmental bodies, etc. ).

•Good communication and writing skills. Able to handle change, incident and outage calls.

Job Requirements And Qualifications: Indicate the minimum and preferred education and experience for the job and any licenses and certifications required

Required Education:

Other

Any Bachelors

Preferred Education:

Technical

Any Bachelors in Computer Science or IT

Required Experience:

5-7 years

5-7 years of relevant work experience

Preferred Experience:

5-7 years

5-7 years of relevant work experience

Required Licenses/Certifications:

Licenses/Certifications

Any Cloud certification is a plus

Related Skills
Application Programming Interface (API) Development/Integration, Automation, Communication, Consultative Communication, Containerization, DevOps, Enterprise Application Integration, Influence, Organizational Savviness, Problem Solving, Prototyping, Relationship Management, Scalability/Reliability, Software Development Life Cycle, Systems Design/Analysis

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Company Overview

TIAA GBS India was established in 2016 with a mission to tap into a vast pool of talent, reduce risk by insourcing key platforms and processes, as well as contribute to innovation with a focus on enhancing our technology stack. TIAA GBS India is focused on building a scalable and sustainable organization , with a focus on technology , operations and expanding into the shared services business space.

Working closely with our U.S. colleagues and other partners, our goal is to reduce risk, improve the efficiency of our technology and processes and develop innovative ideas to increase throughput and productivity.

We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment regardless of age, race, color, national origin, sex, religion, veteran status, disability, ****** orientation, gender identity, or any other protected status.

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