Associate, Platform Infrastructure Engineering

About the Company

Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Our team is guided by core values—Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy—and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through recruitment, career development, and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

Job Description

Summary

We’re looking for a highly motivated Engineer with a broad skill set to join our Platform Infrastructure Team within our Systematic Credit group. You will help build and maintain the reliable physical and virtual services on which our systems operate.

The Role

In this Platform Infrastructure role, you will be hands-on and carry out a broad range of tasks, ranging from desktop support, business continuity, and database setup to development operations (dev-ops), such as environment design and management.

This role involves collaboration with teams and individuals across the firm as well as external vendors, so strong collaboration and communication skills are key.

Technical Responsibilities

• Enhancing and supporting the technical infrastructure, including compute, storage, and network
• Providing development-operations (dev-ops) capability in partnership with the broader Engineering team
• Supporting outsourced and SaaS providers that provide technical services, including cloud, desktop, and network
• Maintaining robust monitoring and response systems for firm infrastructure
• Enhancing and supporting on-premises technology, consisting primarily of desktop and infrastructure for research
• Supporting due diligence with respect to the IT platform

Essential Requirements

• Experience with cloud services
• Past use of automated delivery tooling and familiarity with Kubernetes
• Experience with data onboarding and administration
• Experience with SaaS vendors
• Desire to be hands-on in an entrepreneurial firm

Desired Qualifications and Experience

• Experience with CSPs such as AWS and Azure
• Experience with information security
• Ability to innovate and use new technologies to deliver value and drive progress
• Educated to degree level in Computer Science or other relevant degree

Reporting Relationships

There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.