Senior DevOps Engineer

• DevOps/SecOps

• Remote

• Permanent / Full Time

About the job:
  
Title – Senior Devops Engineer
Start date: Immediate
Position Type: Full Time

As a DevOps engineer, you will play a pivotal role in automating and optimizing our development and deployment processes, ensuring high availability, scalability and security of our cloud-based applications.

• Deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure, including EC2 instances, RDS databases, VP Cs, and more.
• Implement AWS best practices for security, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IAC) using tools like AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, or Ansible.
• Create and manage CI/CD pipelines to securely, automate application deployment and updates.
• Implement auto-scaling and load balancing to ensure system availability and performance.
• Implement security best practices and compliance standards in AWS environments.
• Perform regular security audits, vulnerability assessments, and patch management.
• Ensure data protection and encryption strategies are in place.
• Ensure static and dynamic code scanning practices are in place.
• Set up monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and application-related incidents.   

  
Basic Skills and Qualifications

• 8+ years of IT experience - software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics experience
• 5+ years of experience architecting, operating large enterprise scale cloud-based solutions.
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer with a strong focus on AWS.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Strong understanding of networking concepts and security best practices.
• Ability to independently develop solutions with low guidance while assisting others with various technical issues.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills and ability to work effectively in a client facing role.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
• Experience with developing CICD pipelines.
• Expertise in driving customer’s DevOps adoption & transformation efforts
• Proficient with IaC Development (Terraform, Cloud Formation, etc)
• Proficient with various code scanning platforms (ex. SonarQube, Snyk, BlackDuck, etc.)
• Hands on experience working with monitoring/observability tool(s) (Splunk, DataDog,
• DynaTrace, etc)
• Hands on experience working with Configuration Management platform(s) (Chef, SaltStack, Ansible, etc)

  
   
Preferred Skills   
Kubernetes - View, manage, and debug Kubernetes resources in an existing Kubernetes Cluster. Ability to understand Kubernetes architecture and it’s resources including but not limited to namespaces, deployments, pods, replicas, services, auto scaling, authentication, etc.
DevOps - Understand and implement DevOps and or GitOps patterns for multi-account and multi- environments.
Code Scanning – Deep understanding of static and dynamic code scanning practices.
CI/CD Automation – Experience in developing CI/CD pipelines to automate the build and release of infrastructure and applications.
Infrastructure as Code - Experience in developing IaC (Terraform, Cloud Formation) for the automated management of AWS Infrastructure.
Configuration Management - Experience with configuration management platforms like Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible