Job Description
The Cloud DevOps Engineer will play a pivotal role in advancing our cloud strategy. The primary focus of this role will include developing, communicating and implementing cloud Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines that are robust and secure. This role will work closely with all stakeholders to create fully automated pipelines which support current DevOps best practices.
- Partners with other developers and other information technology staff to oversee code releases
- Articulates business needs and translates them into technology solutions
- Designs and develops fully autonomous ci/cd pipelines which facilitate cloud deployments which include automation of all infrastructure, services, and application build and deployment
- Ensures that all parts of the pipeline follow good software engineering practices including unit tests and infrastructure tests
- Researches new technologies that will improve efficiency and effectiveness
- Implements highly scalable applications
- Maintains health of cloud-based production environments through monitoring and typical daily administration duties
- Automates operational activities and tasks
- Responds to performance issues identified by alerts and reported incidents
- Builds tools that reduce errors and improve our overall customer experiences
- Assists in the troubleshooting of production issues and ensure pipeline and infrastructure produce clear documentation and metrics which enables Root Cause Analysis
- Develops and tests Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, Packer Scripts and establish immutable infrastructure such that patches are an artifact of the past
- Works with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security (InfoSec), and Application Development to enable the organization to move to the cloud using complete automation
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or High school diploma or GED and seven (7) of DevOps experience
- Three (3) years of experience as a DevOps practitioner
- Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies
- Working Knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, and ServiceNow is a big plus
- Familiar with implementing Chaos engineering principles in the pipeline in order to determine weak links and suggest solutions.
- Proficient in a python programming language
- Excellent knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure Compute Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Virtual Machines (VM's), SQL Amazon Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) or Azure SQL, Document Data Store (DynamoDb, Mongo), Security Groups, Subnets
- Experience in building / deploying cloud-native applications OpenShift, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Experience in observing real-time metrics in the pipeline and deployment strategies Blue/Green, Canary Deployment
- Must be comfortable in developing pipelines as code using YAML specs, ansible playbooks
- Experience with interfacing with secrets management solutions like Hashicorp Vault
- Excellent communication skills and willingness to mentor developers and other team members in the art of DevOps
- Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies
Preferences
Preferred AWS DevOps certification or Azure DevOps certification
