PROJECT DESCRIPTION/JOB SUMMARY
The ideal candidate will have:
- Scripting (BASH, Perl, Ruby, Python, etc.) and building required automation and tools.
- Incident Management/Late night Deployment and on call support for production support.
- Serving as a hands-on subject matter expert for DevOps and Automation in an AWS infrastructure environment
- Leading and contributing to the development, maintenance, and usage of deployment and task automation (OS, database services, virtual networks, or other platform services)
- Participating on fast-paced DevOps and SysOps Engineering teams within Scrum agile processes
- Working directly with architects and developers to create supportable designs and debug problems
- Developing cloud infrastructure designs and implementations and guiding the process from development to operations
- Making decisions on problem resolutions in critical down time situations when escalation is impractical
- Attending and contributing in technical discussions and working groups with various stakeholders
- Understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends
KEY RESPONSIBILITES AND DUTIES
- Assist teams with application code and infrastructure-as-code deployments
- Help teams implement and improve their git operations workflows
- Incident Management and On Call and late night deployments for production applications
- Building monitoring Dashboards in ELK and NewRelic
- Manage the portfolio of platforms required to drive a modern continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline
- Work across corporate teams to implement SRE methodologies
- Balance work efforts captured in meetings, trouble tickets and project plans
- Hands-on keyboard' AWS implementation experience across a broad range of AWS services
- Must have in depth AWS development experience (Containerization – Docker,, Lambda, EC2, S3, API, ALB/NLB, PostgreSQL)
- Strong knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD pipeline (GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory)
- Scripting capability and the ability to develop AWS environments as code
- Hands-on AWS experience with at least 1 implementation (preferred in an Enterprise scale environment)
- Experience with core AWS platform architecture, including areas such as: Organizations, Account Design, VPC, Subnet, segmentation strategies.
- Backup and Disaster Recovery approach and design
- CloudFormation and third-party automation approach/strategy
- Experienced in developing Web Services with Python, JSON
- Familiar with Encryption, Logging, and Privacy/Security Protocols (e.g. TLS 1.2, ELK stack)
- Good knowledge of REST/SOAP/JSON web service API implementation
- Experienced in developing test plan, test cases, baselines, and conducting end-to-end testing
- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
“MUST HAVE” SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Extensive knowledge of cloud computing and strong in AWS
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in troubleshooting and reading complex code using debuggers
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in DevOps or similar roles.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience with AWS tools and methodologies.
- 3+ years of development experience in Python
- 3+ years of experience with Mongo, MySQL and NoSQL databases.
- 2+ years on ELK and NewRelic
