DevOps Engineer

A Career with Point72’s Infrastructure Technology Team

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 Data Platform 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:

• Help establish and maintain the Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) automation plant and be allocated to Data Platform Technology software engineering teams.
• Work cross-functionally to deliver scalable automation solutions to enable rapid development, configuration management of source code, and support test, deployment, and production sustaining activities.
• Work closely with development teams to understand the solution architecture and build requirements to properly build CICD pipelines templates.
• Help establish best practices for code deployment to on-premises 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.
• Work closely with internal software developers, external partners, and service providers to ensure our systems are stable, reliable, and provide an efficient, user-friendly 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)
• Work experience delivering code in Sprints and working in a development team.
• 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
• Hands on experience with container technology: Docker/OpenShift/Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of test processes and test strategies including test automation
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards

We take care of our people

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. We want you to concentrate on success and leave the rest to us. 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 LGBTQ+ community
• Business travel accident insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Educational assistance reimbursement

About Point72

Point72 Asset Management is a global firm led by Steven Cohen that invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide. Resting on more than a quarter-century of investing experience, we seek to be the industry’s premier asset manager through delivering superior risk-adjusted returns, adhering to the highest ethical standards, and offering the greatest opportunities to the industry’s brightest talent. We’re inventing the future of finance by revolutionizing how we develop our people and how we use data to shape our thinking. For more information, visit www.Point72.com/working-here