L3 support specialist with BigData

📍 hybrid work - 3 days/week from the office

Project Description:

ACQA is built on Microsoft Azure cloud computing technology. It aims to deliver:

Scalable cost-efficient infrastructure, using cloud PaaS components.

Single core platform, open architecture, designed for change, itemised $cost metrics, automated data lineage.

Shared across Front Office, Finance and Risk, improving regulatory compliance.

One-Platform / One-Experience -fast to train, easy to operate, retaining talent.

The ACQA platform is made up of a series of components providing the next generation valuation and risk management services.

Responsibilities:

Work with multiple federated teams to enable them to build BigData solutions

Manage the ACQA Databricks platform – provide monitoring and other tooling

Provide best-practices for runtime upgrades

Mandatory Skills Description:

Development of big data technologies like Apache Spark

Programming complex production systems in Java and Scala

Experience in a platform engineering role on a major cloud provider (ideally Microsoft Azure)

Development and/or operations of CI/CD pipelines using modern cloud-friendly build systems like GitLab

Experience with containerisation in development, build and runtime environments including experience of Kubernetes

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

Production experience with Terraform on a major public cloud provider (ideally Microsoft Azure)

Databricks experience

Python experience

Testing and instrumentation practices, observability and alerting tooling

Understanding of information modelling, data structures and algorithms

Technical architecture and low-level design

Agile development and planning practices

Ability to collaborate effectively in a large global team and influence key architectural decisions

Languages:

English: C1 Advanced