Senior DevOps Engineer

Position Summary

Effectual Sr. DevOps Engineers (SDOEs) are members of the Professional Services (PS) team responsible for ensuring that customer-facing projects are delivered with exceptional customer satisfaction and technical excellence. Effectual Sr. DevOps Engineers are "Brand Ambassadors" and are expected to stay current on leading practices to deliver high-quality, well-conceived solutions to customers.

What Makes a Successful SDOE?

SDOEs are skilled, experienced technologists who stay current on leading practices, act in the interests of our customers to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions to their needs to achieve defined business outcomes on behalf of our customers. SDOEs are problem solvers who see blockers and challenges as opportunities to find a new path to success; the words "good enough" and "impossible" aren't in their vocabulary. SDOEs are knowledgeable and experienced in AWS Cloud technologies, possess a strong desire to continue to learn about emerging technologies, and a passion for supporting the high-quality delivery of technical projects.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Enabling Customers' Use of AWS

• Kubernetes Ecosystem:
  • Designing, deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting large microservices estates in production on Kubernetes
  • Service mesh deployment and integration such as ISTIO, Linkerd, Consul, etc.
  • Using Helm Charts, Custom Resource Definitions
  • Creating cloud-native CI/CD workflows for containers with tools such as Jenkins, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, Gitlab, etc.
  • Hands-on experience with microservices and distributed application architecture in a multi-tier environment (Dev, Test, Prod, etc.)
• Automating Cloud Infrastructure:
  • Automating cloud infrastructure with scripting and code, including but not limited to:
    • Extensive experience in a scripting language (Bash, Python, JavaScript, etc)
    • Hands on experience in a language such as Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object-oriented language.
    • Composing and leveraging code to define and automate cloud infrastructure (e.g.: AWS CloudFormation templates, Terraform, AWS CDK, etc.) to ensure repeatable, sustainable AWS infrastructure
  • Automating infrastructure and application deployment and testing in development, pre-production, and production environments
  • Experience with the full software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile practices in a team environment.

Supporting Developers in AWS

• Architecting, coding, deploying, and troubleshooting Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Providing input and guidance to developers on overall AWS Architecture and design tenets
• Extensive experience with git version control, git branching, and CI/CD practices

Establishing Visibility into Cloud Operations

• Leveraging resource tagging to allocate costs and optimize resource planning
• Assisting in preparing cost analysis based on expected usage
• Configuring AWS cloud infrastructure for maximum technical and budgetary efficiency

Supporting Customer Migrations to AWS

• Assisting in the development of migration plans
• Executing migration plans, which may include:
  • Migrating applications using microservices architectures
  • Confirming the migration of resources into AWS and decommissioning on-premises resources

Leadership and Knowledge Sharing

• Lead technical design sessions, conduct code reviews for Infrastructure-as-Code implementations, and facilitate knowledge transfer sessions to elevate the overall technical capabilities of the team while fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement
• Mentorship for other engineers on the team or with the customer’s team.
• Supporting rigorous project governance and