Systems Engineer

About Clearwater Analytics

Clearwater operates several dynamic project teams within our development organization. Each team is capable of extending our software in ways that solve real problems for our customers. We write quality software that is used by some of the world’s largest technology firms, fixed income asset managers, and custodian banks . Our fast-moving project teams are capable of producing tremendous feature enhancements and reacting quickly to emerging technologies. All this in a motivating environment that encourages collaboration and stimulates creativity.

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to join our diverse development team. You will spend much of your time learning new technologies and concepts, applying this knowledge and experience to solve complex problems in new and interesting ways. You will use industry standard DevOps best practices and procedures as well as applications developed within our team to effectively manage and scale our development environment to accommodate our rapidly growing company.

What you’ll be doing

Designing, automating, maintaining and monitoring our development environment and supporting infrastructure, applications and continuous integration

Maintaining Configuration Management using Puppet

Designing and supporting robust build deployment and configuration management systems for multi-tier Java applications

Working closely with the System Operations team establishing baseline architecture requirements and best practices, optimization, security, high availability and resource planning

Performing proactive application monitoring, configuring and maintaining a healthy system using industry standard monitoring tools

Utilize ‘DevOps’ principles and tools to improve systems and processes

Aiding in the troubleshooting efforts at the infrastructure, container and application layers

Logging and monitoring of critical log events

Required Skills

Minimum Qualifications

Linux Administration and Troubleshooting

Python development /scripting

Experience in any of the Configuration Management tools like Puppet (preferred), Ansible, Chef or Salt

Familiarity or understanding of Java

Scripting skills in at least one of the following: Perl, Python, Shell, Bash, or Ruby

Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced start-up like environment

Ability to excel at problem solving, adapt easily to change, contribute while working as a team or individually

Passion for DevOps, systems monitoring, automation and uptime

Required Experience