Associate Automation Engineer Jobs in Kyle, TX (NOW HIRING)

About Dimensional:

Dimensional was built around a set of ideas bigger than the firm itself. With a confidence in markets, deep connections to the academic community, and a focus on implementation, we go where the science leads, and continue to pursue new insights, both large and small, that can benefit our clients.

The Technology Department at Dimensional leverages the rapidly evolving state of the art to engineer scalable, innovative, and research driven solutions to improve our client's financial lives.

The Platform Engineers at Dimensional are focused on leading, designing and developing the platform and services that underpin all of Dimensional's applications and business processes across a variety of technical domains. Application services are key components of the platform, as they provide foundation services that include workflow automation, event-driven integration, ETL, and security tooling in support of software development.

We are looking for a hands-on engineer to join our team and own the platform's monitoring and alerting strategy. This strategy includes supporting the platform's current monitoring capabilities in addition to evolving them for future use.

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• Are open-minded, curious, and resourceful
• Are passionate about/stay current with modern technologies
• Solve problems systematically and transparently
• Share ideas, solicit/integrate feedback, design and solve collaboratively
• Take a software engineering approach and demonstrate automation and security mindsets

What you might work on:

• Design and engineer one or more application services, including workflow automation, messaging/queuing systems, application security, and ETL
• Engage with application development teams and internal customers to assist with their utilization of application services
• Develop software solutions using scripting, back-end, and/or front-end technologies
• Build automation to support the configuration, testing, and deployment of software and infrastructure
• Collaborate with subject matter experts in a variety of areas to drive the success of our developers, business users, and clients
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and partner with technical product owners to define service roadmap

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of experience developing software solutions
• 5+ years of experience developing modern software-driven infrastructure and/or platform services
• Experience designing, implementing, and/or supporting workflow automation systems, messaging/queuing systems, and/or ETL frameworks
• Comfortable troubleshooting vendor software systems
• Deep familiarity with Linux and related technologies
• Familiarity with Windows and related technologies
• Experience developing software in Python (or equivalent), Terraform (or equivalent), and Ansible (or equivalent)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to communicate complex concepts to various audiences helping them to understand the benefits of technologies and recommended course of action

Preferred Competencies:

• Experience with any of the following: Airflow, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure
• Working knowledge of security best practices for SDLC (e.g., the Secure Software Development Framework)
• Experience working in or with an SRE or DevOps team
• Experience with agile/scrum methodologies
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Certification or equivalent
• Financial services industry experience

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Dimensional offers a variety of programs to help take care of you, your family, and your career, including comprehensive benefits, educational initiatives, and special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth.

It is the policy of the Company to provide equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. The Company recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, religious practice, creed, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), caregiver status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender identity, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, familial status, domestic partnership status, military or veteran status or service, unemployment status, citizenship status or alienage, sexual orientation, status as a victim of domestic violence, status as a victim of stalking, status as a victim of sex offenses, genetic information, political activities or recreational activities, arrest or conviction record, salary history, natural hairstyle or any other status protected by applicable law except as otherwise required or permitted by law or regulation applicable to the Company or its affiliates.