DevOps Engineer | ONSITE - Princeton, NJ

DevOps EngineerWork Location: ONSITE - Princeton, NJThis role necessitates understanding of tools and processes for deploying secure, scalable applications in cloud.Detailed knowledge is required for managing rules, applying network configurations, and utilising CDNs and other load balancing and security technologies.Familiarity with development programming standards, software engineering skills, containers, and deployment methodologies is essential.Responsibilities include assisting developers with cloud services setup, providing cloud assets, and offering build and deployment capabilities.Process re-engineering skills to improve development processes are crucial.This engineer should be well versed in Github Actions, AWS (to, but not limited to, host external services, testing environments, performance benchmarks), and CLI scripting, observability metrics and observability tools.The DevOps Engineer is responsible for bridging the gap between development and operations teams to ensure efficient, automated, and scalable deployment of applications and infrastructure. This role involves managing CI/CD pipelines, automating system operations, and ensuring high system reliability, security, and scalability.Design, build, and maintain the CI/CD pipelines for seamless integration and deployment of code.Collaborate with software engineers, QA, and security teams to implement best practices in infrastructure and deployment.Automate infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and management using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or similar.Monitor system performance and reliability, ensuring 24/7 uptime and quick incident responses.Implement security best practices in infrastructure management, including data protection and access control.Conduct regular audits and assessments of system health, security, and performance.Stay up-to-date with emerging DevOps tools, trends, and methodologies, and continuously improve system automation.Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and container orchestration.Shell / CLI & Python scripting for creating automation tools and utilities functions to assist engineers and processes.Experience with AWS ALB, ELB, EC2, ECR, CloudFront, S3, Aurora, Dynamo, ElasticCache, Lambda, CloudWatch, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, Step Functions, Route53, EFS, Secrets, VPC, API Gateway, IAM, Security GroupsUnderstand and apply agile principles and values. This includes promoting collaboration, InnerSource, responding to change, and delivering value to the customer iterativelyExperience managing incident management and monitoring up-time metricsFamiliarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack.Solid knowledge of networking, system security, and data management.Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to system management.