Aztec Group
11-50 employees
About Aztec Group
Aztec Group, Inc. is one of Florida's leading real estate investment and merchant banking firms for more than 35 years. Headquartered in Miami, Aztec serves the real estate industry as a source of capital and transactional expertise for developers, managers, institutional and entrepreneurial clients. Beyond Florida, the firm also delivers capital and closes complex transactions for clients in markets across the United States. As one of Florida's real estate leaders, Aztec Group continually outperforms national real estate players in structuring the entire capital stack, ranging from equity to preferred equity to bridge and construction financing, as well as permanent loans. Aztec's success is rooted in our innovative approach to serving clients and our experienced, market-savvy team of real estate professionals. Our success is enhanced by our intensely focused, innovative approach to serving our diverse clients. Aztec views real estate from your perspective -- that of a principal. While our compensation is success fee oriented, we are at our best when we serve as an integral part of your team. Aztec Delivers: - Primary Debt-construction, bridge, mezzanine and permanent financing - Acquisition and Repositioning Equity-preferred equity, and joint venture capital. We concentrate on rental apartment communities, office buildings, shopping centers, senior/healthcare, and hospitality.
📋
Description
- The Aztec Group is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team on a six-month contract. This role will focus on operationalising, optimising, supporting, and enhancing DevOps solutions and frameworks that underpin our cloud infrastructure and automation pipelines. The successful candidate will work to embed best practices and tools—developed both internally and by third-party providers—into production environments. The role will also support and enhance the framework of the cloud infrastructure and automation pipelines to enable rapid, reliable software delivery. Additionally, the role includes knowledge transfer and capability building to aid development of junior staff.
- Key responsibilities include operationalisation and deployment of DevOps solutions with monitoring and observability, establishing CI/CD pipelines, improving performance and reliability, designing infrastructure for automation, ensuring compliance with security and data governance, proactively resolving issues, and maintaining monitoring systems such as Zoho Site24x7. The role also involves documenting processes, mentoring staff, and collaborating with development, QA, and product teams within an Agile environment.
- Required skills include proven experience as a DevOps Engineer in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation), scripting skills (Python, Bash), containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and familiarity with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, GitLab CI). Experience with monitoring platforms like Zoho Site24x7, knowledge of security principles including Privileged Identity Management, and domain experience in financial services or asset management are highly desirable. Soft skills include problem-solving, communication, stakeholder management, and the ability to work independently.
- The role emphasizes quick learning, teamwork, and growth within a multi-award-winning company in the alternative fund management industry.
🎯
Requirements
- Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.).
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, etc.).
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, etc.).
- Experience with monitoring and alerting platforms (Zoho Site24x7 highly desirable).
- Familiarity with incident management and root cause analysis.
- Knowledge of Privileged Identity Management (PIM) roles.
- Strong understanding of least privilege security principles and experience implementing them.
- Experience in financial services or asset management is highly desirable.
- Scrum Master certification or experience facilitating Agile ceremonies is a plus.
- Knowledge of code scanning tools (e.g., SonarQube).
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- Ability to work independently and deliver results within tight timelines.
🏖️
Benefits
- Opportunity to work on cloud infrastructure and automation pipelines.
- Collaborative Agile environment.
- Knowledge transfer and capability building.
- Potential to develop skills in AI/ML engineering.
- Work with a multi-award-winning leader in the industry.