Transaction Banking - Platform Engineering - Cloud Engineer - Analyst - London

What We Do

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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.
Transaction Banking (TxB) brings innovative solutions to traditional banking activities. We are a global team of lenders, investors, risk managers, skilled marketers, web experts, infrastructure engineers and banking specialists. We provide a suite of solutions to help our customers manage their payments in innovative ways.

Transaction Banking

TxB aims to provide comprehensive cash management solutions for GS and other financial institutions. TxB combines the strength and heritage of a 154-year-old financial institution with the agility and entrepreneurial spirit of a tech start-up. Our goal is to provide the best client experience. Through the use of modern technologies centered on data and analytics, we provide customers with powerful tools that are grounded in value, transparency and simplicity to improve cash flow management efficiency.
The Team:
The Dev Experience team is a global team responsible for engineering the public cloud platform to support our Payment Orchestration and Execution Platform. Working in close partnership with application teams building the new system, the team is responsible for identifying and securing the public cloud services required, automating their provisioning, and building a highly resilient and scalable infrastructure which will differentiate our offering from the competition.
The Role:
We are seeking highly collaborative, creative and intellectually curious engineers who are passionate about forming and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing capabilities. Candidates should be comfortable working in a fast-paced DevOps environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Partner with colleagues from across technology and risk to ensure an outstanding, useable, and unobtrusive experience for development teams building and deploying their applications into public cloud environments.
• Help to define, communicate and promote best practices for public cloud application development across the department.
• Develop software and tooling to secure and automate cloud infrastructure and software delivery capabilities.
• Design and operation of an ECS environment for container management and orchestration.
• Automate the provisioning of environments using Ansible, Terraform and other tools.
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to present, persuade and influence peers, vendors and executives.
• Energetic, self-directed, and self-motivated, able to build and sustain long-term relationships across a multitude of stakeholders in a fast paced, multi-directional work environment.
• Exceptional analytical skills, able to apply expertise to drive complex, technical and highly commercial solutions.
• Experience supporting complex production application environments.

Basic Qualifications:

• Proficiency in designing, developing, and testing software in one or both of Python and Java; open to using multiple languages.
• Experience architecting, designing, and developing applications in an Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure cloud environment.
• Ability to reason about performance, security, and process interactions in complex distributed systems.
• Experience with version control, continuous integration, deployment, and configuration management tools in a DevOps environment.
• Experience meeting demands for high availability and scale.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively, both written and orally, as well as the interpersonal skills required to collaborate effectively with colleagues across diverse technology teams
• Ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate requirements into technical solutions.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in a Linux environment, including system engineering, high availability design, performance analysis, network troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of container technologies: Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands on experience in Amazon Web Services.
• Experience using infrastructure as code tools (e.g. Terraform)
• Experience with at least one configuration management system (e.g. Ansible, Salt)
• Experience in CICD (Preferably gitlab)
  

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

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