DevOps Engineer

Duties & Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and maintain new versions of applications and event-driven services in AWS.
• Develop and maintain automated infrastructure-as-code and deployment pipelines.
• Define and implement governance policies and procedures for running workloads in AWS.
• Design reusable components and patterns for provisioning cloud resources in alignment with governance and security standards.
• Collaborate with operations teams to align established standards and procedures with DevOps techniques and best practices.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews.
• Drive scope, planning, and estimation discussions; track progress and provide regular updates to management and stakeholders.
• Partner with engineering, security, and product teams to improve availability, scalability, performance, and efficiency.
• Build tools and automation to eliminate repetitive tasks, reduce downtime, and improve operational consistency.
• Set up and manage AWS environments, including components such as load balancers, compute, and managed databases.
• Write and maintain Terraform code to provision infrastructure and implement secure cloud solutions within AWS.
• Troubleshoot production issues and coordinate with team members to drive resolution, minimizing customer impact.
• Drive process improvements and automation enhancements to continuously improve environments.
• Create infrastructure recommendations with cost/benefit analyses.
• Produce and maintain project infrastructure documentation, including runbooks and disaster recovery plans.
• Monitor environment health and system performance; contribute to incident response and post-incident improvements.

Skills & Specifications

• Experience automating software deployments and operating within a continuous delivery model.
• Experience developing and supporting CI/CD using tools such as Jenkins (or equivalent).
• Experience designing, building, and supporting highly available production systems in AWS using services such as ELB/ALB, EC2, ECS, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, S3, IAM, Route 53, and DynamoDB.
• Experience with source control and branching strategies (e.g., Git, GitHub, GitFlow).
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, EFS, RDS, and Route 53.
• Experience developing and provisioning infrastructure as code using Terraform; familiarity with tools such as Ansible and Packer is a plus.
• Proficiency with monitoring/observability and log aggregation tools (e.g., New Relic, CloudWatch, Datadog, Sumo Logic, ELK).
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve time-sensitive, critical production issues.
• Experience operating common middleware and web stacks (e.g., Apache, NGINX, Tomcat, JBoss).
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols (e.g., DNS, DHCP, SSH, HTTP, TCP/IP).
• Experience with containerized workloads and AWS container services such as ECS; familiarity with other orchestration platforms is a plus.
• Experience writing and maintaining configuration in YAML and/or JSON.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to work effectively with cross-functional global and remote teams.