Senior DevOps Engineer

About the role

The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for architecture, design, implementation, and management of the AWS cloud infrastructure for ACA Group (“ACA”)’s software provisioned using the CDK.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain secure and fault tolerant infrastructure and cloud software environments while applying fundamental principles of the AWS Well Architected Framework
• Manage the immutable infrastructure via CDK written in TypeScript
• Operate the development tools, such as IDEs, test environments, code repositories, artifact hosting, test runners, and automated release processes to enable developers
• Oversee the deployment of servers, storage, databases, and other required infrastructure
• Help design, oversee, and test the disaster recovery and business continuity plans
• Participate on an agile team and work in the full development lifecycle
• Perform analysis, design, development, unit testing, code reviews and deployment of cloud infrastructure
• Participate in an on-call rotation
• Make pragmatic design and architectural decisions with security in mind
• Investigate and pinpoint defects, deficiencies, or service outages

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or equivalent work experience
• Background in Software Development or Software Engineering
• Five years of professional hands-on experience building and managing AWS infrastructure using IaC (either using the AWS CDK using TypeScript, Terraform, or CloudFormation)
• Experience with scripting languages – Python (Boto3), Bash (AWS CLI), PowerShell, TypeScript (nice to have)
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
• Deep experience with observability platforms (New Relic, CloudWatch, Athena)
• Experience containerizing workloads and working with Docker environments
• Knowledge of Serverless architecture patterns and best practices
• Experience with and understanding of Linux and Windows environments
• Deep network architecture knowledge including VPN, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect
• Experience with RDS, EC2, Fargate, S3, Glacier, Lambdas, ECS, EKS, Secrets, and CloudFront
• Experience with project management and collaboration tools like Jira and Confluence

Skills and attributes

• Ability to work well in a fast-paced, small-team environment
• Ability to work independently, multi-task, and prioritize effectively
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and clients
• Highly motivated and goal oriented; proactive in one’s own education and career progression; volunteers for and shows initiative on both internal and external projects and tasks
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Strong oral and written communication skills