Responsibilities:

Technical Design, Development & Problem Solving:

• Provide recommendations on architectural changes to improve efficiency, reliability and performance and to reduce cost.
• Explore and recommend new technologies/services. Articulate the advantages of various solution options
• Define platform software engineering standards and ensure compliance
• Ability to independently develop algorithms and deliver results in production environments at scale.
• Ability to take on proof of concepts to proof new technologies.
• Problem solve with little to no guidance.
• Collaborate with Cloud/DevOps engineers to solve technical and design problems
• Conduct and oversee design & code reviews 

Execution & Delivery:

• Ability to independently execute complex, long term projects
• Understand context of the work rather than just focusing on what is assigned.
• Excellent communicator and collaborates well with people inside the team and in other organizations
• Innovate and is open to ideas to improve efficiency and works with the team to pivot if necessary.
• Write clean, high-performance, well tested infrastructure code with a focus on reusability and automation (e.g. Shell, Python, Golang, Puppet, Terraform etc...)

Software Engineering Excellence:

• Responsible for code excellence and quality of the project being assigned
• Research on tools being used by the department and provide suggestions for improvements
• Creates reusable code frameworks or example projects to aid developers on the team.
• Advocates and leads initiatives for enhancing our testing framework

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum 5-8 years of cumulative experience in implementing DevOps methodologies with Cloud Experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent disciplines from an accredited college or university. 
• One or more Cloud Service Provider certifications: AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps,or others. 

Ideal Qualifications:

• Advanced understanding of CI / CD concepts
• Experience with Jenkins (e.g. master-slave architecture, Jenkins Shared Libraries, Groovy)
• Seasoned Infrastructure as Code developer with Terraform
• Understanding of Docker containers
• Good scripting skills (e.g. bash, python, go lang)
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with artifact repository managers (Artifactory is preferred)
• Practical experience with version control systems (Git is preferred)
• Understanding of microservices architecture
• Hands-on experience on public cloud
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Able to thrive in a collaborative and cross-functional environment
• Familiar with Agile methodology concepts and familiarity with Confluence and JIRA
• Practical experience with workflow management tools, such as ServiceNow. 
• Strong interpersonal, verbal presentation, and written communication skills. 
• Understanding of GitOps processes and tools
• Experience with DevOps concepts, tools (e.g. Artifactory, Helm, Ansible, etc.) and emerging technologies
• Experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions.