Senior DevOps Engineer

Why Great Gray?

At Great Gray Group, we strive to set the bar for the retirement services industry. Our goal is to deliver advanced retirement solutions that combine our core fiduciary services with robust investment options, innovative technology, and dedicated client service. We focus on making choices clearer, transitions smoother, and the client experience more delightful. Complacency isn't in our vocabulary. Every day, we look for opportunities to better serve our clients, be an excellent business partner, and earn the trust of those who rely on us. 

The Role

Great Gray is looking to add a Senior DevOps Engineer on our IT team. This is a newly-created engineer role which will aid in bringing critical platform capabilities in-house to support our rapid growth. The work will play a pivotal role in modernizing our infrastructure, leading our migration from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions, and building a world-class developer experience.

Location

This position will work from our Boston, MA office. Great Gray currently supports a hybrid work model with 4 days onsite, and 1 day remote.

Visa sponsorship or transfer of an existing visa is not available for this position. Applicants must be authorized to work directly for any employer in the United States without visa sponsorship or transfer.

Responsibilities 

·       Build and maintain self-service tools and automation that empower engineering teams to ship faster with confidence

·       Design and implement standards, patterns, and best practices for containerized and traditional applications

·       Create documentation and runbooks that enable teams to own their services

·       Champion DevOps culture and practices across engineering teams

·       Lead a migration from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions, designing robust, scalable pipeline architectures

·       Mature existing CI/CD pipelines with improved testing, security scanning, and deployment strategies

·       Implement blue-green and canary deployment patterns

·       Build reusable pipeline templates and shared workflows

·       Manage and optimize our Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters

·       Containerize legacy applications and design migration strategies from monoliths to microservices

·       Work with Azure App Services, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, and networking infrastructure

·       Implement and maintain service mesh patterns, monitoring, and observability

·       Write and maintain Terraform modules for Azure infrastructure

·       Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and scaling

·       Modernize legacy infrastructure with Windows AD dependencies, SSRS, and SSIS workloads

·       Design and implement auto-scaling strategies for applications currently lacking them

·       Enhance monitoring and alerting using Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Prometheus/Grafana, Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry

·       Build dashboards and SLO/SLI frameworks to measure system health

·       Drive incident response processes and post-mortem culture

·       Optimize application and infrastructure performance

·       Complete other related duties as assigned

Qualifications & Experience

·       5+ years of DevOps/Platform/SRE experience, with significant time in Azure environments, including AKS, App Services, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Azure Networking and Azure SQL.

·       Kubernetes/AKS deployment strategies, cluster management, troubleshooting

·       CI/CD expertise including GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or similar

·       Terraform writing modules, managing state and best practices

·       Containerization, registries, Docker, security scanning

·       Scripting & automation with PowerShell, Bash, Python or Go

·       Monolith and microservices experience

·       Experience with distributed tracing, metrics and logging platforms for observability

·       MS SQL Server, Azure SQL backup, replication and performance tuning

·       Problem-solving mindset

·       Your standards reflect our core values: Growth Mindset, Disciplined Curiosity, Grit, Results Ownership, Collaboration.

Tech Stack

Our current tech stack is a blend of existing and next-gen tools/languages, and like our company itself, our software is always evolving.

Cloud & Infrastructure: Azure

Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes(AKS), Azure App Services

IaC: Terraform

CI/CD: Azure DevOps (migrating to GitHub Actions)

Version Control: Azure DevOps, GitHub

Databases: MS SQL Server, Azure SQL

Monitoring: Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry

Scripting: PowerShell, Bash, Python

Benefits

We have a comprehensive and competitive benefits package at Great Gray. Some of the highlights are:

·       Be an integral part of an early-stage, high-growth organization!

·       Hybrid work environment

·       Competitive compensation package including 401(k) with elective and non-elective match opportunities

·       Lifestyle spending allowance program

·       Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

·       Employer-paid life and disability insurance

·       Generous paid time off program

Company Background 

Great Gray is the leading independent provider of trustee and administrative services to Collective Investment Trusts (“CITs”), with over $240 billion in CIT assets under management, across more than 800 funds. We proudly work with more than 80 subadvisors, including leading firms such as AllianceBernstein, American Funds, BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, MetLife, Neuberger Berman, PGIM, PIMCO and Raymond James. 

CITs are more than just an investment vehicle. They represent a forward-thinking approach to retirement planning. These tax-exempt, pooled investment vehicles are offered to employer-sponsored retirement plans, like 401(k)s. CITs are comparable to mutual funds, but, because they are tailored for the institutional retirement market, they can offer distinct advantages, including efficient administration and cost-effectiveness. CITs have a history dating back over 90 years; but they have gained favor over the past decade, driven by innovations, and Great Gray has been at the forefront.

Great Gray has consistently delivered year-over-year growth at an above market rate and is investing in the continued development of its core CIT business as well as complementary administrative services and technology solutions for the retirement market.

Madison Dearborn Partners (“MDP”) purchased Great Gray from Wilmington Trust in April 2023. As a result, Great Gray is an independent company owned by funds affiliated with MDP.

Investor Background 

MDP is a leading private equity investment firm based in Chicago. Since MDP's formation in 1992, the firm has raised aggregate capital of over $28 billion and has completed over 150 platform investments. MDP invests across five dedicated industry verticals, including basic industries; business and government software and services; financial and transaction services; health care; and telecom, media, and technology services.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

Great Gray, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or other non-merit factor.

Accommodation Statement

Great Gray is committed to ensuring individuals with disabilities and/or those who have special needs participate in the workforce and are afforded equal opportunity to apply and compete for jobs. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website, need assistance completing the application process, or need to request an accommodation for any part of our application or interview process, please contact us at: [email protected]