Lead AWS DevSecOps Engineer - Hybrid

We currently have a career opportunity for a hands-on AWS DevOps Engineer. This role requires experience writing short python programs for scripting and manipulating data from scratch. This will be a hybrid role and you will be required to be on-site in Fort Mill, South Carolina OR Austin, Texas - three - four days a week.

As a Lead Technical Consultant you will participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle which includes estimating, technical design, implementation, documentation, testing, deployment and support of application developed for our clients. As a member working in a team environment you will work with solution architects and developers on interpretation/translation of wireframes and creative designs into functional requirements, and subsequently into technical design.

Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly-growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

 

Perficient is seeking an AWS professional who is a cloud migration enthusiast with passion for elastic workloads and serverless frameworks. With your expertise in cloud computing, you will architect and build cloud-native systems, wrangle cloud systems’ complexity, and ensure that best practices are followed when utilizing a wide variety of cloud service offerings. You will also weigh the pros and cons of using IaaS services versus PaaS and other managed services when designing and recommending solutions.

You are expected to be a subject matter expert on AWS services, tools and best practices. You will answer questions on various cloud-native technologies and AWS services, and you will provide recommendations on what service to use and when. As such, you should have extensive hands-on experience with the varied AWS services, their limitations and alternate (non-AWS) solutions that might serve better in particular situations.

CI/CD: The role requires deep involvement in continuous delivery automation, and the integration of cloud-native services to create fully functioning, cohesive delivery pipelines. Your set of skills should include tools and systems like: 

• CI/CD suites such as Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis CI or GitLab CI
• Source control management such as GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket
• AWS build tools including: AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline

Observability: You will ensure that an application and the systems it runs on implement appropriate monitoring, logging and alerting solutions. Your experience should include:

• Slack, DataDog
• Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS X-Ray
• Amazon SNS, Nagios
• Elasticsearch, Kibana

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): You will provision cloud infrastructure in an automated manner using tools such as: 

• Terraform
• AWS CloudFormation and, AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) (preferred - not required)

Containerization & Orchestration: You must have hands-on experience building containers and automating container orchestration - deployment, management, and scaling, using tools such as: 

• Docker 
• Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Amazon ECS/EKS (preferred - not required)
• RedHat OpenShift
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Database: The role requires working knowledge in setting and querying: 

• Relational data stores: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora 
• NoSQL data stores: MongoDB, AWS DynamoDB
• Data warehouse: Amazon Redshift
• Amazon RDS Proxy and MongoDB (preferred - not required)

Automation: In-depth programming experience is required for the implementation of solution POCs and the automation of solution resiliency validation and verification. You should be able to utilize:

• AWS Lambda
• Bash and, Python
• Java (preferred - not required)

Security: The role includes responsibility for technical security implementation, and enforcement of compliance and security guidelines. You should have passion for cutting edge cloud services, and deep interest in cybersecurity architecture and information security technologies. Required skills include:

• AWS Identity Access Management (IAM)
• AWS KMS
• AWS Control Tower (preferred - not required)
• Identity management, federated security and SSO (preferred - not required)
• Secrets management: Vault experience (preferred - not required)

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in the design & implementation of distributed applications
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in highly availab