Job Description

Key purpose:

As a DevOps Engineer you'll be responsible for ensuring that the company's infrastructure is kept up to date and running smoothly. You will work closely with software developers, operations teams, IT managers and other key stakeholders to plan new developments and implement them as quickly as possible. You should have experience in building out microservices-based applications using AWS or Azure services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

Duties and responsibilities:

• Performs activities such as system administration, network administration, deployment, provisioning, and configuration management of tools, platforms, and infrastructure
• Ensures that all work is executed according to predefined policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines
• Documents and tracks each task required to deploy, update, patch, and support applications and systems
• Plans, directs, and implements automated processes to deploy code to development or staging environments, ensuring that business critical application upgrades are tested first
• Understands the importance of security, compliance, and data governance as they relate to development and operations activities
• Supports development by managing automated testing tools and tools for code management and Version Control Systems (VCS)
• DevOps engineer responsible for the design, development, and delivery of applications and services on a multi-cloud architecture
• Infrastructure Provisioning and management
• Continuous integration and delivery
• Configuration management
• Monitoring and logging
• Security and compliance
• Automation
• Capacity planning and scaling

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Experience with both the EC2 cloud platform and server farm management, including configuration management, provisioning, scaling out/down and scaling in instances across multiple regions required
• Advanced knowledge of the AWS service models and best practices to provide a high level of assurance for Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure solutions and security is preferred
• Must be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Linux operating system environments as well as familiarity with container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes