Sr. DevOps Engineer

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Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps or a related field, with a strong background in software development, automation, and infrastructure management
• AWS certification and/or at least 4 years of AWS experience
• Hands-on knowledge of the AWS services we use such as Lambda (specifically python), SQS, SNS, S3, RDS (Postgres), IAM, etc.
• Strong understanding of the SDLC lifecycle
• Strong knowledge of AWS and DevOps pipelines
• Experience with containers and related AWS services such as ECS or Fargate. Kubernetes experience is a plus!
• A strong understanding of code and script (Specifically, Bash and Python as well as Javascript/NodeJS) with demonstrated professional experience working in at least 1 main language
• Familiarity with deployment strategies like blue-green, rolling deploys, canary deploys, and best practices around deployment automation
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Cloudformation
• Strong experience with Configuration as Code technologies such as Ansible (preferred), Chef or Puppet
• Familiarity with SecOps and Compliance processes is desired
• Extensive experience compiling and deploying applications with custom built software or packaged applications
• Strong experience working with microservices architectures and cloud environments.
• Knowledge of version control systems, such as git, with experience in cloud based version control systems such as AWS CodeCommit, Github, or Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities:

• Dive into existing architecture and code to develop a deep understanding of bottlenecks, tipping points, and which metrics matter.
• Provide guidance and leadership to ensure that solutions meet high standards for security and leverage appropriate technologies for performance and automation
• Drive continuous software delivery, resolve incidents run incident post-mortems, provide feedback on engineering architecture decisions, and automate repetitive operational tasks.
• Design, develop, and maintain software solutions that address specific operational, compliance, and pipeline issues.
• Design foundational, scalable and durable infrastructure on AWS to support our long-term growth.
• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline
• Collaborate with development teams to deploy microservices architecture effectively.
• Participate in helping to build and maintain a culture of engineering best practices.
• Monitor and optimize application performance using cloud monitoring tools like ELK or Splunk.
• Ensure system reliability and uptime through proactive monitoring and incident response.
• Conduct regular software quality assurance assessments to maintain high coding standards.
• Debug complex production issues across services and product and at all levels of the application stack
• Mentor junior engineers in best practices for DevOps methodologies.
• Be an active participant an agile scrum team, follow the agile methodologies and participate in the agile ceremonies
• Collaborate with SMEs and technology leads to understand the need for new solutions being developed.
• Communicate core DevOps concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Regularly bridge the gap between this team and other teams as the champion of cross-team collaboration for the sake of a best-in-class customer experience.
• Perform other related responsibilities as assigned.