SDLC and Runtime (SDLCR) focuses on delivering engineer-first, scalable platforms for job scheduling, Compute-as-a-Service, file transfer, firmwide software distribution and software development. This includes the CI/CD ecosystems, based around the GitLab and proprietary platforms.
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a suite of products that provides end-to-end build and deploy tooling for Engineers in the firm. It provides a modern, secure and highly available plant that facilitates source control, code review, build, test and production activation.
The primary customer base for the SDLCR tools are Engineers within Goldman Sachs. Key customers are the Global Banking & Markets as well as the Asset & Wealth Management and the Platform Solutions group.
AS an SDLC ENGINEER
You will be working at the heart of the developer experience, ensuring the code that is written by thousands of GS engineers is versioned securely, reviewed expertly, compiles fast, tests comprehensively and is distributed widely. You will deliver CI/CD solutions that support cloud native development. You could be working with cutting edge build technology from AWS & Google, or the latest cloud technology in one of more backend languages including Java, Golang, and Python.
SDLC Platforms include:
- Build / Development
- GitLab - The firm's strategic vendor CI/CD platform, hosted in-house with instances on-prem and on public cloud
- In-house developed Continuous Integration (CI) tools for deploying Software packages, config and Infrastructure as Code
- Distribution - Linux and Windows software distribution system used by Gitlab, as well as proprietary distribution tooling
- Artifact Repository - Primary build artifact repository hosting terabytes of internal and external software packages and industry standard asset repos such as Maven Central, NPMScopes and PyPi, running on Sonatype Nexus
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Technical knowledge of proprietary in-house built CI tooling for GS developers.
- Develop features and improvements to CI tools
- Ensure that CI products are secure, tested, and that meets or exceeds industry standard performance and availability
- Look for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
- Diagnose and solve technical problems, both within the core GitLab environment, and the associated GS technical eco-system
- Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering to maintain and improve the functions and quality of service
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN WHEN YOU JOIN US
- Cloud native architectures in AWS.
- Experience with large scale build systems and deployment paradigms
- Expertise in commercial / open source build systems (Gradle / Bazel / Make) and strong knowledge of software change management systems
- Experience of DevOps, SRE, infrastructure (storage / networks / etc.)
- Design and implement mid to large scale distributed systems
- Partner with and provide technical guidance on best practices to the GS engineering community, revenue aligned Engineering teams, and operations teams
CORE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- 2 to 4 years of relevant industry experience respectively
- Ability to use and familiarity with GitLab and CI/CD.
- Professional experience with Cloud deployment patterns. Specifically AWS cloud constructs, as well as Terraform
- General knowledge of multiple languages, and in-depth strong programming skills of at least one of: Java, GoLang, Erlang, Java, Python, C, C++.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Experience with all stages in the lifecycle of developing and working with large scale distributed systems
- Experience with diagnosis, prevention and management of performance, availability and scale of mid- to large-sized systems
- Passionate about the software development process and facilitating high frequency / high quality change across a vibrant and diverse user community.
- Strong written and verbal English language skills.
ATTITUDES WE WANT
- Ability to thrive in our global organization in an output driven, fast paced, hybrid and asynchronous work place
- Team player, eager to work in a global organization.
- Ability to communicate technical and organizational challenges and propose high quality solutions
- Comfort working in an agile environment
- Self-managed and good organization skills
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- BSc, MSc or BE in relevant field (Computer Science, Maths, Physics)
- Knowledgeable about key business applications on Linux platforms and Linux internals.
- Knowledgeable about networking (TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, SSH, etc)
- Experience with Cloud and Infrastructure as Code technologies - AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, etc