AWS Devops Engineer

AWS DevOps Engineer

Location: Tampa Hybrid – 3 Days onsite

Skillset: Must have hands-on experience with AWS services, EKS, K8s, Docker and have Terraform experience

Position Notes: Our client is a leading global steel producer.

Job Order (Why might someone want to work here?):

• Drive automation standards across our testing and production environments and be a key resource as we migrate our monolith and microservice application to the cloud
• Create high-performance, scalable, and fault-tolerant computing systems while researching and providing solutions to challenging technical issues related to DevOps
• Automate the infrastructure creation on cloud like AWS, Azure, etc.
• Design and implement security governance practices for the applications and infrastructure
• Automate pipelines and environments, build resilient systems and create repeatable processes, as well as update monitoring systems to detect service and security issues
• Improve automation degree in integration, deployment, monitoring, and configuration management aspects of developed solutions and development infrastructure
• Design and deploy, in an Agile (Scrum) environment, assets and code that will help, deploy, test, monitor, as well as maintain components and services for next-generation service platforms
• Participate in the design and development process from definition to deployment while leading day-to-day operational support activities for services developed using the DevOps practice
• Verify and monitor on-premises and cloud environments and respond to issues as they arise, adding new monitoring as needed
• Recommend alternate choices and trade-offs for various design decisions while assisting with troubleshooting issues
• Design and implement Fault tolerance architecture for all the applications

Your Expertise:

• Customer-Centric – Focus efforts to ensure internal and external customers thrive
• Communication and Persuasion – Possess solid communication and persuasion skills essential to success in this position. You will represent the Digital IT group effectively and employ negotiation skills that build organizational consensus around a specific course of action while identifying communication barriers and taking action to facilitate mutual understanding
• Business Acumen – Acknowledge the impact of your actions in local and global contexts while working to generate sustainable value (economic, social, and environmental) for the organization. In addition, you should understand basic business processes and possess the ability to identify and develop workflows and process maps for continual improvement and waste elimination within the business
• Technical Expertise – Understand all IT functions, cloud technologies, and services in use, and become familiar with the current direction in the infrastructure market
• Strategic Thinking and Vision – Possess a clear sense of the direction of the organization and understand what will create a competitive advantage for the business in the future. Distinguish tactical issues from strategic ones and take action while effectively translating strategic imperatives at the macro level into initiatives and priorities
• Simplistic Agility – Foster simplicity and agility to look for ways to streamline work and processes to become more effective and efficient while developing new ideas quickly
• Global Perspective – Ability to successfully operate in a global IT organization bringing perspective to daily work while leveraging relationships, expertise, and opportunities across borders taking the company's strategy and priorities into consideration
• Accountability – Take initiative and assume personal accountability and ownership for goals, outcomes, and deadlines holding others accountable for achieving individual and organizational objectives
• Analysis – Possess critical thinking ability and deal systematically with input from a variety of sources to suggest alternative approaches to unfamiliar situations or concepts, as well as strong analytical skills, including an understanding of business economics and financial resources
• Supplier Management – Possess the ability to engage and manage suppliers as needed for discovery, modeling, implementation, and support

Your Credentials:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar engineering discipline from an accredited university
• At least 8 years of professional experience
• Knowledge of deployment and configuration technologies (e.g., Gitlab, Jenkins, Ansible, etc.)
• Knowledge of Containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, K8s, etc.)
• Working Experience with Cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure)
• Knowledge of IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure ARM)
• Knowledge of tools like Helm, Artifactory, SonarQube, etc.
• Knowledge of source control technologies (e.g., Git, subversion)
• Experience operating in virtual environments required
• Experience with both Windows and Unix based operating systems required
• Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Bash)
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Team player
• Excellent time-management skills
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to effectively analyze data and present solid recommendations