Senior Software Engineer - DevOps

DevOps Engineer

Our client is looking for a highly motivated individual to provide DevOps Engineering services to the team. In this role you will be responsible for developing and managing CI/CD pipelines, AWS cloud infrastructure, Security, Compliance, Release & Risk Management. You will work with the software development team to provide them the tools to develop, test, and release high quality software in a securely and efficiently.

Required Expertise:

• A passion for DevOps culture, new technologies, practices, and ways of working
• Strong software engineering experience
• Strong Linux administration and Scripting (BASH) experience
• Hands on experience with container technologies (Docker & Kubernetes)
• Hands on experience in cloud application deployment automation patterns and various scripting languages
• Hands on experience developing platform automation, experience with DevSecOps technologies like BitBucket, Artifactory, Concourse, Jenkins, and Veracode
• Hands on experience working with and maintaining Continuous delivery / Deployment technologies
• Solid understanding of SSDLC and Agile standard methodologies
• Hands on experience with AWS Cloud, including CloudFormation, ECS, EKS, EC2, Security/VPC, IAM, RDS (Aurora).
• Knowledge of working with Node, TypeScript, and JavaScript applications
• Excellent presentation, documentation, communication and influencing skills, as well as skills which present/influence technology direction in business context to the partners.

Required Skills:

• Experience supporting applications on cloud such as AWS for 3+ years
• Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for microservices using Jenkins & Concourse.
• Consistently seeks out opportunities to evaluate and adopt new tools and continually improve existing automation and release processes
• Experience using blue/green deployments and maintaining availability during installs
• Experience with monitoring tools, like Datadog, to identify issues in deployed environments.
• Troubleshoot and debug these issues to facilitate resolution in code and infrastructure.
• Strong motivated and time management skills.
• Open to direction and following agreed upon standards; yet are comfortable with ambiguity and enjoy experimenting, developing, and communicating alternatives
• Creative and enjoy collaborating to tackle complex problems, providing technical expertise to development, QA, and operations teams to execute DevOps strategies.

Value You Will Deliver:

• Identifying functional & non-functional requirements that are not currently met and advocate solutions to address these gaps.
• Applying appropriate approaches to assessing trade-offs among architectural goals
• Actively participating in planning, definition, design, and integration of pipeline & infrastructure services working with partners in the enterprise to assure consistency & ease of development.