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Project Description:Applying to the position, you may join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. Our client is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds to ensure long-term sustainability. The company invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments.Client attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:- Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders- Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment- Accelerated exposure and responsibility- Global career development opportunities- Being motivated every day by important social purpose and unshakable principles- A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High PerformanceIf you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here's an opportunity.Responsibilities:- Lead and mentor a distributed, multidisciplinary team to manage both operational support and DevOps functions, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.- Drive and adjust team objectives to meet OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), ensuring continuous improvement and meeting business needs.- Proactively monitor and enhance CI/CD pipelines, addressing potential issues, and implementing optimizations for improved performance and efficiency.- Collaborate with clients and stakeholders to identify the most effective infrastructure solutions and recommend tools that align with specific business objectives and technological requirements.- Foster close collaboration with development, testing, and QA teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment cycles.- Follow and uphold ITIL processes such as incident, change, and problem management, ensuring strict adherence to service management standards.- Ensure high-quality IT support services for internal and external stakeholders, continuously seeking opportunities to enhance key performance metrics such as response times, resolution rates, and customer satisfaction.- Oversee disaster recovery and business continuity planning to ensure infrastructure resilience and minimize downtime.- Stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends, bringing innovative solutions to improve operational efficiency and team performance.Mandatory Skills Description:Must-have (soft skills):- Proven experience in team and vendor management, leading teams of 4+ members for at least 2 years, with the ability to coordinate across internal and external stakeholders.- Exceptional communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to clearly convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and ensure effective collaboration across diverse teams.- Strong initiative and proactive problem-solving skills, with a mindset focused on identifying issues before they arise and driving improvements without direct supervision.- Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments, preferably within the capital markets or investment banking sectors, with an understanding of the complexities and regulations involved.- Solid understanding and hands-on experience with ITIL processes, particularly in incident, change, and problem management.- Strong organizational and multitasking abilities, with a focus on prioritizing tasks and managing competing demands in a fast-paced environment.- Adaptability and flexibility, able to thrive in dynamic environments and adjust to rapidly changing requirements or priorities.Must have hard skills:- Extensive experience with Linux systems administration and troubleshooting in production environments.- Proficiency with AWS cloud infrastructure (AWS certification preferred), including best practices for cloud security, scalability, and automation.- Extensive hands-on experience with DevSecOps and GitOps methodologies, integrating security practices into the CI/CD pipelines.- Expertise with HashiCorp tools such as Terraform and Vault.- Strong experience with GitHub, including GitHub Actions- Proficiency with containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, with a CKA certification as a bonus.- Excellent troubleshooting skills for identifying and resolving system, network, and application-level issues.- Strong understanding of networking concepts- Familiarity with security gates and QA tools, ensuring secure software development lifecycles (SDLC).- Comprehensive knowledge of security practices, including SSL/TLS, encryption techniques, and certificate management.- Scripting and automation expertise, particularly in Python and Bash, with a solid understanding of API integrations for system automation.Nice-to-Have Skills Description:- Message brokers: IBM MQ or similar- Monitoring: Zabbix, Elastic- Security: jFrog Xray or similar, SonarQube, Qualys- ETL tools- Ansible- ArgoCD, including Rollouts- Artifactory- Powershell- Microsoft domain / ActiveDirectory, Windows administration- UrbanCode Deploy