Charles River Development is an award-winning provider of software and services to the Investments/Financial Services industry. Our client base includes many of the world’s largest investment and financial institutions. We are expanding our Software as a Service offering to meet growing demand.

This internal process improvement, business and technical staff position is for an Assistant Vice President (AVP) of Systems & Automation. The candidate will act as a conduit within our financial technology ecosystem, collaborating with platform engineering, product, and SaaS implementation teams. It is not a maintenance role; the candidate must be an agent of change, scrutinize manual workflows, identify gaps, and build automated solutions that ensure seamless, secure, and rapid software delivery implementing the standard SaaS strategy.

Responsibilities

- Audit existing manual processes across the application lifecycle and design/implement automated solutions to eliminate toil.
- Develop and maintain robust configuration management scripts using Ansible, Python & PowerShell.
- Work with product/engineering teams to optimize the CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, risk‑mitigated deployments of CRIMS applications.
- Ensure efficiency, availability and configuration of the “CRD Development” SaaS platform by providing solutions based on sound technical knowledge.
- Adopt, customize and implement industry standard DevOps policies and DevOps procedures.
- Create and maintain automated scripts/tools that will build, configure, deploy and test applications deployed to different environments, and enhance continuous integration environments.
- Hands‑on work with the system, installing and configuring it and testing that it meets the product’s technical and business requirements.
- Work with an automated release management process for SaaS clients.
- Break down moderately complex processes into simple and reliable components.
- Proven ability to work autonomously,



taking a project from "identified gap" to "automated solution" without constant supervision.

Requirements

- Experience in DevOps (or related) technologies.
- Proficient scripting using Python or another object‑oriented language is required.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Artifactory, JFrog, and Git.
- Experience with web technologies, databases, server operating systems, servers, networks, job scheduling software, system monitoring software, clusters/high‑availability systems, Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity, etc.
- Experience or familiarity with servers and networks is preferred; NoSQL experience is a plus.
- Experience with SQL, MS SQL, Oracle Database, and PostgreSQL preferred.
- Understanding of Infrastructure as a Service cloud providers such as Azure, AWS, and Oracle Cloud is an advantage.
- Knowledge of web technologies and ability to write a REST API in Python with a web framework is an advantage.
- Ability to use a wide variety of open‑source technologies and cloud services.
- Experience with network protocols (e.g., WINS, DNS, TCP/IP, WinRM, SSH, SFTP, SMTP).
- Experience with automation, using scripting and tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and RunDeck is an added advantage.

Qualifications

- 5+ years in a DevOps, Automation Engineer, or Systems Engineering role, preferably within the Financial Services or Banking sector.
- Bachelor’s Degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or similar.
- Understanding of financial application logic and the regulatory rigors of banking production environments.

Salary Range

$91,000 - $140,500 Annual

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an Equal Chance Employer and consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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