Responsibilities
- Drive discussions regarding trade-offs, best practices and risk mitigations for cloud deployments based on hands-on, real world experience gained deploying cloud workloads at scale
- Design and Implement cloud frameworks and deployments by leveraging previous experience, utilizing best practices and industry standards
- Educate and mentor team members, operations staff and other departments on Cloud concepts across multiple cloud providers
- Provide technical analysis, resolve problems, and propose solutions in a 24/7 production environment
- Monitor and research cloud technologies and stay current with trends in the industry
- Experiment and conduct proof of concepts on emerging technology
- Mentor junior engineers on coding best practices and DevSecOps strategies.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and identify opportunities for reducing toil and avoiding technical debt to reduce support and operations load.
Knowledge and Experience
The applicant is expected to have the following skills and experience on appointment:
- 5+ years of experience in an DevOps, preferably DevSecOps, or SRE role in an AWS cloud environment.
- 5+ years’ strong experience with configuring, managing, solutioning, and architecting with AWS(Lambda, EC2, ECS, ELB, EventBridge, Kinesis, Route 53, SNS, SQS, CloudTrail, API Gateway, CloudFront, VPC, TransitGW, IAM, Security Hub, Service Mesh) or similar expertise in Azure/GCP
- A track record of excellence and hands-on design and implementation of technology
- Python, or Golang proficiency.
- In-depth Operating System knowledge in both Windows and Linux
- Experience with IAM, Active Directory, ADFS, SAML 2.0, and Single sign on practices.
- Experience using configuration management tooling for application deployment and workflow orchestration.
- Proven background of implementing continuous integration, and delivery for projects.
- A track record of introducing automation to solve administrative and other business as usual tasks.
The applicant will receive extra consideration if they have some of the following skills and experience:
- Proficiency in Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
- A history of delivering services developed in an API-first approach.
- Coming from a system administration, network, or security background.
- Prior experience working with environments of significant scale (thousands of servers)
