Job Details:

Multiple openings for the role of “Associate Director, Platform Engineering” sought to join the Information Technology (“IT”) group at Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership (“Arrowstreet” or “ASC”), headquartered at 200 Clarendon Street, 30th Floor, Boston, MA 02116. This is the main location out of which these roles will predominately be based. Positions are permanent, immediately available job opportunities that do not require any travel. Telecommuting benefit is available; however, due to various regulations and policies, it is currently permissible to work remotely only from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Connecticut, and New Hampshire; therefore, such resources must live in one of those five states. Those in these positions are required to be in Arrowstreet’s Boston office (address given above) 3 days per week, with remote work allowable 2 days per week. Positions of “Associate Director, Platform Engineering” are not supervisory roles.

These roles specifically leverage agile methodologies and apply best practices while developing software solutions. Associates working in Platform Engineering are responsible for the technology that drives the firm’s software-building processes, and for ensuring that we are using effective tools and technologies. The technical work of the Platform Engineering team includes increasing production reliability and scalability, automating software delivery and server provisioning, applying principles of configuration management, and supporting application production systems.  Individuals in this role support and develop software vital to the IT systems that drive our firm’s investment process. Principal duties and responsibilities include the following: (1) Implement technical solutions for automated configuration management and application deployment using .Net Stack and SQL Server; (2) Standardize shared technology platform and drive best-practices for application development and data science teams; (3) Coordinate with development, QA and infrastructure teams to release new technologies; (4) Automate deployments, provisioning and server configurations using tools that include Ansible, and Puppet, and Chef; (5) Create visibility of environment status with monitoring, dashboards, and log aggregation; (6) Use GIT and TFS for source control and tracking tasks from development to QA to production installs; and (7) Serve as technical support and respond to incidents, identify root causes and resolve issues in an expedient manner.

Full-time, permanent, immediately available job opportunities. They require a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Information, or a closely related discipline. Also, requires five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in software release engineering using configuration management (“CM”) languages. The five years, otherwise required and specified here, must also include three years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in all of the following: (a) leading implementations; (b) using formal source code management; (c) development of scripts for use in the deployment process; (d) troubleshooting and resolving application setup errors utilizing Linux-based systems; (e) building cloud infrastructures using three of the following, to wit: (1) Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (“EKS”); or (2) Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL; or, (3) Amazon Open Search Service; or, (4) Amazon DynamoDB; or, (5) Amazon Web Services Glue; or, (6) Kubernetes; or, (7) Redis; or, (8) MongoDB; or (9) Boto3; (f) building automated Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (“CICD”) pipelines to provision resources and deploy applications using one of the following, to wit: (1) GitLab; or, (2) Jenkins; or, (3) Bitbucket; and, (g) utilizing one of the following object-oriented programming languages, to wit: (1) Python; or, (2) .NET; or, (3) C#.

How to Apply:

Applicants should send resumes directly to the employer, not the local, state employment-service office. Can apply directly to Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership at https://arrowstreetcapital.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/BatchApplicantPortal.

Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership