at AMERICAN CYBERSYSTEMS INC. in Vernon Hills, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Title: Senior AWS DevOps EngineerLocation: Remote
Type: Contract to Hire
Target Pay Rate: 70-80/hr
SUMMARY
We are looking for a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer as a member of a growing and highly skilled software design and engineering managed services provider team. Alongside software development, the DevOps Engineer will introduce, promote and evolve software engineering excellence based on industry standards and best practices and personal experience. The DevOps engineer will evolve, maintain and secure the team's continuous build, integration and deployment strategies and infrastructure. They will also, implement and enforce the principles of modern, services-based system architecture within the engineering team. Sustainably drive the team towards the selection of appropriate tools and technologies. Finally, they will work with the team on specifying, architecting and designing products with excellent operational characteristics.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Maintain health of cloud-based production environments through monitoring and typical daily administration duties.
• Respond to performance issues identified by alerting and other reported incidents.
• Automate operational activities and tasks.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and perform occasional after hours support.
• Work with Developers to execute software releases, configuration updates, and other release requirements.
• Complete project work as assigned and contribute to the technical direction of various objectives, your ideas will be valued.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
• B.S. in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years software development experience using enterprise level programming languages.
• History in defining and operating virtual and cloud-based infrastructure and services following the infrastructure as code principle.
• Demonstrable automation experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, GitLab/GitHub, Jenkins, Chef, Salt, and/or Ansible
• Demonstrated ability with scripting languages Python and Ruby
• Strong AWS experience especially in the following services (VPC, EC2, IAM, S3, Route53, Security)
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code tools including Terraform and CloudFormation.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS
• Experience using a variety of Amazon's Web Services offerings.
• Monitoring, alerting and reporting enterprise-level infrastructure.
• Clean coding skills and excellent problem-solving ability.
• A good understanding and appreciation of the Agile Software Development Process.
• Ability to work to a sprint plan, track progress, identify risks, anticipate and communicate delays to the team.
• Team player with the ability to both articulate thoughts and opinions but also listen and compromise.
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced professional and international environment.
DESIRABLE SKILLS
• Good understanding of performance benchmarking and profiling tools.
• Experience in providing both strategic and tactical input during the product design phase to ensure excellent integration with modern build and deployment infrastructure.
• Experience with code versioning system using Git.
• Experience with ServiceNow monitoring solution and ScienceLogic operations management platform
Max Trujillo
Technical Recruiter
Innova Solutions
720-573-5273
