Cloud DevOps Engineer

Essential Responsibilities :

Develop tools to assist in automation of application build, deployment, testing, security and monitoring

Utilizing your experience in code configuration management tools while cooperating with others to implement branching strategies

Build and maintain the deployment processes for multi-tiered applications

Identify and assist in design / implementation of automated tools to improve the continuous deployment pipeline

Administer, manage, and maintain source control system (Git)

Own builds, pre-release activities and all documentation associated with them

Follow and enforce release deployment standards

Solve and fix compilation or build script issues

Act as a liaison between Application Development, QA, IT Security, and Operations

Advocate new tools and processes to continuously improve, deploy and release efficiency

Implement and deploy tools to assist developers such as on-demand dev or staging environments, log aggregation, metrics monitoring, and code analysis

Modernizing monolithic apps to cloud based technologies

Weekly rotating support within a team of 9 engineers

Ideal candidate

The ideal candidate will have the ability and desire to learn cutting edge technologies and be an advocate for DevOps best practices within our organization

Demonstrable expertise deploying production workloads on AWS and managing Kubernetes clusters at scale

Programming proficiency in one or more of the common languages used in DevOps : Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Bash / Shell Scripting, Power Shell, Node, etc.

Linux / Windows systems administration experience

Experience building and securing infrastructure as code using AWS CDK, Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible, YAML and / or similar tools.

Solid understanding / certifications / working knowledge of the public cloud infrastructure and services in AWS (IAM, VPC, KMS, EKS, Cloud Watch, Systems Manager, S3, RDS, Route53, Lambda, AWS Config, etc.

and Azure is a strong plus

Knowledge or experience with information security engineering in CI / CD pipelines (DevSecOps) and Data Pipelines and Systems (WAF, Akamai, etc.)

Ability to demonstrate proven success in working in a team, as well as independently, and exhibit follow-through to understand root causes of issues

Exposure to monitoring and logging tools (AWS Cloud Watch / Splunk / New Relic / AWS X-Ray / etc.)

API development experience is a plus

Education, Work Experience, Licenses & Certifications Desired

4+ years of software release and build management experience working in Linux and Windows environments

BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience

Experience with the following Tools and Technologies; Maven, GIT, AWS CI / CD tools, JAVA, Jenkins, Oracle, Chef, Tomcat, Kubernetes, Docker, VMWare, Ansible, Terraform

Expert knowledge of scripting languages and build management tools

Expert knowledge of build, release and configuration management practices

Experience working in high-speed dynamic environments

Demonstrated problem solving and troubleshooting skills

Self-starter with the ability to quickly learn new tools and products

Excellent verbal and communication skills