Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.
Job Description
Summary:
We’re looking for a highly motivated Engineer with a broad skillset to join our Platform Infrastructure Team within our Systematic Credit group. You will help build and maintain the reliable physical and virtual services on which our systems operate.
The Role:
In this Platform Infrastructure role, you will be hands-on and carry out a broad range of tasks ranging from desktop support, business continuity and database set up, to development operations, such as environment design and management.
This role will involve collaboration with teams and individuals from across the firm as well as external vendors, so strong collaboration and communication skills are key.
Technical Responsibilities:
- Enhancing and supporting the technical infrastructure, including compute, storage and network
- Providing development-operations (dev-ops) capability in partnership with the broader Engineering team
- Supporting out-source and SaaS providers who provide technical services, including Cloud, desktop and network
- Maintaining robust monitoring and response systems for firm infrastructure
- Enhancing & supporting on-premises technology, consisting primarily of desktop and infrastructure for research
- Supporting due diligence with respect to IT platform.
Essential Requirements:
- Experience with cloud services
- Past use of automated delivery tooling, and familiarity with Kubernetes
- Experience with data onboarding and administration
- Experience with SaaS vendors
- A desire to be hands-on in an entrepreneurial firm.
Desired Qualifications and Experience:
- Experience with CSPs such as AWS & Azure
- Experience with information security
- Ability to innovate & use new technologies to deliver value and drive progress
- Educated to degree level in Computer Science or other relevant degree.
Reporting Relationships
Principal Platform Infrastructure Engineer
There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.