DevOps Engineer

At Moody's, we unite the brightest minds to turn today’s risks into tomorrow’s opportunities. We do this by striving to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome to be who they are—with the freedom to exchange ideas, think innovatively, and listen to each other and customers in meaningful ways.

If you are excited about this opportunity but do not meet every single requirement, please apply! You still may be a great fit for this role or other open roles. We are seeking candidates who model our values: invest in every relationship, lead with curiosity, champion diverse perspectives, turn inputs into actions, and uphold trust through integrity.

Skills And Competencies

• Proficiency in Kubernetes and Amazon EKS (2+ years required): Essential for managing containerized applications and ensuring high availability and security in cloud-native environments.
• Strong expertise in AWS serverless technologies (required): Including Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, and Step Functions, to build scalable and cost-efficient solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform (2+ years required): Critical for managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) across multiple environments, ensuring consistency and repeatability.
• CI/CD pipeline development using GitHub Actions (required): Necessary for automating deployments and supporting agile development practices.
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell (required): Enables automation of operational tasks and enhances infrastructure management capabilities.
• Experience with Databricks and Apache Kafka (preferred): Valuable for teams working with data pipelines, MLOps workflows, and event-driven architectures.
  
  

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

Design, automate, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Design and manage cloud-native infrastructure using container orchestration platforms, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security across environments.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform to provision and manage multi-environment cloud resources consistently and efficiently.
• Develop and optimize continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to automate application and infrastructure deployments, supporting agile development cycles.
• Monitor system performance and reliability by configuring observability tools for logging, alerting, and metrics collection, and proactively address operational issues.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align infrastructure solutions with application requirements, ensuring seamless deployment and performance optimization.
• Document technical processes and architectural decisions through runbooks, diagrams, and knowledge-sharing resources to support operational continuity and team onboarding.
  
  

About The Team

Our Data Estate DevOps team is responsible for enabling the scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure that powers Moody’s enterprise data platform. We ensure the seamless deployment, monitoring, and performance of data pipelines and services that deliver curated, high-quality data to internal and external consumers.

We contribute to Moody’s by:

• Accelerating data delivery and operational efficiency through automation, observability, and infrastructure-as-code practices that support near real-time data processing and remediation.
• Supporting data integrity and governance by enabling traceable, auditable, and resilient systems that align with regulatory compliance and GenAI readiness.
• Empowering innovation and analytics by maintaining a modular, interoperable platform that integrates internal and third-party data sources for downstream research models, client workflows, and product applications.
  
  

By joining our team, you will be part of exciting work in cloud-native DevOps, data engineering, and platform automation, supporting global data operations across 29 countries and contributing to Moody’s mission of delivering integrated perspectives on risk and growth.

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody’s Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.