DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Due to a customer requirement, as a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate will be required to obtain and provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination prior to commencing employment or submit to regular COVID testing.

Client's DevOps Engineer help promote state-of-the-art IT solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and share lessons learned. This position will focus on enabling container deployments and implementation of serverless architectures within AWS. Additionally, we need our DevOps Engineer to be versatile and be enthusiastic to take on new problems. We believe that in addition to hiring great talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products.

The candidate must have detailed experience with AWS and all of its resources (or least its main ones EC2, S3, and RDS), as well as very familiar with Cloud formation to create and maintain AWS resources. The candidate must also have experience with programming in an Object Oriented Programming language, preferably in Ruby, Python, or NodeJS. The candidate must have experience with using the AWS SDK in any of its supported languages: Ruby, Python, Java, NodeJS, etc.

Java experience would be nice, but it is not mandatory. However, this experience will be vital in helping the development teams utilize AWS correctly.

This person must be willing to help in all cases as well as be familiar with architectural best practices. He/She will have experience with Jenkins and building Jenkins Pipelines using Groovy, not just Jenkins Jobs using Bash.

A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years experience Engineering/Other Technical Positions: Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations.

In this role, the person must have:

• Object Oriented Programming experience
• Experience with AWS (e.g., CloudFormation, EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, and ElasticSearch)
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., RDS, Oracle, Postgres)
• Experience in continuous integration technology (e.g., Chef, Puppet, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible)
• Experience with interacting in a Linux environment (ex - Bash scripting)
• Experience with Jenkins and creating Jenkins Pipelines while having and understanding of continuous integration and continuous deployment best practices
• BS/BA in Computer Science OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience with Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby
• Requires expert or mastery level knowledge of work area, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
• May have deep knowledge of project management. Advanced knowledge of related disciplines within work area and ability to identify links and potential impact on projects, programs or systems.
  
  As a bonus, the idea candidate will also have:​​​​​​
• Experience with application platforms such as Spring Boot or Angular
• Experience with log analytics tools such as Splunk or ElasticSearch
• Experience working with containers using Docker
• Experience with container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes and Mesos
• Experience in communicating with users, technical teams, and senior management
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with Microservices
• Experience with front end development using Angular 10
• Comfortable managing competing priorities and are able to bring order to ambiguous scenarios
• Familiarity with Source code management and integration (ex - GitHub/GitLab)
• Experience in an Agile environment (JIRA, Confluence)