DevOps Engineer

DevOps EngineerThe Senior AWS DevOps Engineer will be responsible for supporting client's technical stack of AWS environments across all applications and manage the resolution of applications and system issues that arise across the business. Candidates will quickly respond to technical problems that occur abruptly and requires immediate attention. Candidates should be proactive, motivated, organized, extremely flexible, take initiative, and work well within fast paced groups.Ensure all our AWS systems are secure, scalable, responsive, and reliable Collaborating with on-call engineers to troubleshoot issues and minimize downtime Benchmarking, analyzing and reporting on and/or making recommendations for the improvement and growth of cloud operations and infrastructure Developing and implementing instrumentation for monitoring the health and availability of services including fault detection, alerting, triage, and recovery Implementing appropriate logging, monitoring and reporting devops related capabilities Support AWS RDS and Aurora Postgres and MySQL database performance, maintenance and troubleshooting Maintain and enhance the Redis cache cluster working closely with the Dev team Runbook development and train SL1/SL2 team members to decrease SL3 tickets amount Participate in Team-Wide Change Management process as both implementer and verifier, ensuring changes are completed efficiently & correctly Onboarding of New Applications into Standardized Release Pipeline Verify data protection and disaster recovery capabilities through regular service restore tests Use automation provision and configure infrastructure as a codeBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience 5+ years of relevant experience with different cloud technologies especially AWS Must be an excellent team player working with multi-disciplinary teams (Developers, Architects, Operations and Testers) to fully automate and build out new application environments on the Cloud, spearheading automation and high performing system projects. Understanding of Networking Technologies like Load balancer, Firewall, VIP, DNS. Experience with designing and deploying AWS Services like Elastic Compute (EC2), ECS, ECR, Storages (S3, EBS, EFS, Glacier and AWS Storage Gateway), RDS and Aurora. Experience working in a team environment using a Source Configuration Management tool a plus (Subversion, GitHub, GitLab etc). Experience with open sourced webservices environments (Apache, PHP etc) Experience with APM monitoring tools like New Relic is required Experience with AWS caching technologies is required Experience with Terraform or Cloud Formation YAML scripting Hands on experience with Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools and processes like Jenkins. Experience with supporting RDS and Aurora databases is required Proficient understanding of container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes Adhere to the process and security standards when building application infrastructure in AWS Serve as enforcer for DevOps practices to prevent “technical drift” Maintain key service level agreements (SLAs) Provide guidance and direction to regarding DevOps Processes and Technical/Pipeline Standards.