AWS Devops Engineer

AWS Devops Engineer

Jersey City,United States

Contract

Skills

Kubernetes

Python 

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

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.

Skills / Experience

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)

Background in software development a plus

understanding of the financial markets a plus

Azure experience a plus

BA or BS in any STEM or related field. Masters a plus