Senior DevOps Engineer

Position Summary 

Effectual Sr. DevOps Engineers (SDOEs) are members of the Professional Services (PS) team responsible for ensuring that customer-facing projects are delivered with exceptional customer satisfaction and technical excellence. Effectual Sr. DevOps Engineers are "Brand Ambassadors" and are expected to stay current on leading practices to deliver high-quality, well-conceived solutions to customers. 

What makes a successful SDOE? 

SDOEs are skilled, experienced technologists who stay current on leading practices, act in the interests of our customers to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions to their needs to achieve defined business outcomes on behalf of our customers. SDOEs are problem solvers who see blockers and challenges as opportunities to find a new path to success; the words "good enough" and "impossible" aren't in their vocabulary. SDOEs are knowledgeable and experienced in AWS Cloud technologies, possess a strong desire to continue to learn about emerging technologies, and a passion for supporting the high-quality delivery of technical projects. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

• Enabling customers' use of AWS to achieve their business objectives through: 

• Kubernetes ecosystem 

• Designing, deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting large microservices estates in production on Kubernetes 

• Service mesh deployment and integration such as ISTIO, Linkerd, Consul, etc. 

• Using Helm Charts, Custom Resource Definitions 

• Creating cloud-native CI/CD workflows for containers with tools such as Jenkins, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, Gitlab, etc. 

• Hands-on experience with microservices and distributed application architecture in a multi-tier environment (Dev, Test, Prod, etc.) 

• Automating cloud infrastructure with scripting and code, including but not limited to: 

• Extensive experience in a scripting language (Bash, Python, JavaScript, etc) 

• Hands on experience in a language such as Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object-oriented language. 

• Composing and leveraging code to define and automate cloud infrastructure (e.g.: AWS CloudFormation templates, Terraform, AWS CDK, etc.) to ensure repeatable, sustainable AWS infrastructure 

• Automating infrastructure and application deployment and testing in development, pre-production, and production environments 

• Experience with the full software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile practices in a team environment. 

• Supporting developers in efficiently working within AWS through: 

• Architecting, coding, deploying, and troubleshooting Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines 

• Providing input and guidance to developers on overall AWS Architecture and design tenets 

• Extensive experience with git version control, git branching, and CI/CD practices 

• Establishing visibility into cloud operations through: 

• Leveraging resource tagging to allocate costs and optimize resource planning 

• Assisting in preparing cost analysis based on expected usage