Public Cloud DevOps - Infra Automation Lead

We are

At Synechron, we believe in the power of digital to transform businesses for the better. Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions. Synechron’s progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end-to-end Artificial Intelligence, Consulting, Digital, Cloud & DevOps, Data, and Software Engineering, servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms. Through research and development initiatives in our FinLabs we develop solutions for modernization, from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models, Digital Underwriting, mobile-first applications and more. Over the last 20+ years, our company has been honored with multiple employer awards, recognizing our commitment to our talented teams. With top clients to boast about, Synechron has a global workforce of 14,000+, and has 52 offices in 20 countries within key global markets.

Our challenge

This resource will be part of our growing Infrastructure Automation Team within Public Cloud. This role will be key in working with various infrastructure teams (Security, Networking, Database, Unix) to develop, deploy and support cloud and hybrid applications. Due to the collaborative nature of the role, it will be important that this resource be senior in both DevOps / AWS / technical skills and interpersonal skills. Candidate should have strong communication, teamwork, customer service and leadership skills to partner with broader global technology engineering, information security and line of business teams.

Additional Information – New York Only* 

The base salary for this position will vary based on geography and other factors.

In accordance with New York law, the base salary for this role if filled within New York is $140k - $160k/year & benefits (see below). 

The Role

Responsibilities:

• Use AWS to deploy highly available, scalable, and secure applications.

• Assist in architecting, designing, and implementing cloud-based IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions.

• Design, develop and implement automation to support continuous delivery and continuous integration solutions.

• Provide consulting and help build pipelines for application teams integrating cloud services into their application.

• Design and develop platform engineering and automation for governing usage of cloud services and application autonomy.

• Design and implement workflows to automate the release and upgrade process for applications in Development, Test and Production environments.

• Collaborate with the Cloud Security and Identity Teams on the administration and engineering of Role-Based Access Controls and processes.

• Help design and develop Governance of cloud infrastructure, including both technical controls and cost governance structures.

• Create and update support documentation and standards.

• Develop automated methodologies for deployment activities, configuration management, supporting systems and business processes.

• Use Jira to track and manage all work through the development life cycle.

• Proactively analyze and contribute improvements to support our deployment processes.

• Investigate and contribute to solving various issues in production environments.

• Drive compliance and security efforts related to systems managed by the team.

Requirements:

You are:

• 5+ years’ experience in AWS, AWS professional and/or specialty certification, such as Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer

• Experience in implementing Secure Architectures for private and/or public internet facing systems.

• Strong understanding of cloud computing concepts, infrastructure, and best practices. Such as K8S, Containers, Serverless, Microservices

• Strong understanding of IaC, CI/CD Pipelines, Terraform, CloudFormation, Bitbucket, Bamboo etc.

• Strong understanding of networking and internet protocols and distributed systems

• Experience designing and developing resilient, highly available and scalable systems for the cloud.

• Experience in cloud cost optimization and budget management.

• Proficiency in Python, AWS CLI

• Working knowledge of Shared Responsibility models

• Prior experience building out CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience working in Agile teams, and related tools (Jira, Confluence, etc)

It would be great if you also had:

• Background in software development a plus

• understanding of the financial markets a plus

• Azure experience a