Mid Level DevOps Engineer

Mid Level DevOps Engineer
San Antonio, TX

100% onsite
Location: Prefers san antonio


Job Description

Essential duties include the following: Delivering excellence to our Software Engineering teams, empowering them to maximize development velocity while simultaneously enforcing best practices and security standards. Ownership, architecture, and management of AWS infrastructure components such as Lambda, EKS, etc. Building with a mind for both security and compliance. Deploying to AWS via Azure DevOps-based source control and CI/CD pipeline design. Owning the technical design, and implementation of the automation technologies required for deploying, maintaining and operating cloud infrastructure. Creating the policies and procedures for properly supporting our rapidly growing microservice architecture. Ensuring cloud-based architectures meet availability and recoverability requirements. Implementation of cloud-based monitoring and alerting. Find scalability bottlenecks and areas for performance improvements. Identify and execute on opportunities to help set the standard for excellence in cloud infrastructure design and automation. Active monitoring of risks to site SLAs and overall delivery.

Serious candidates will possess the minimum qualifications:

AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, Developer) required.
At least two (2) years managing AWS infrastructure.
At least three (3) years DevOps engineering experience.
At least two (2) years Terraform or CloudFormation.
At least two (2) years Azure DevOps CI/CD.

A strong software engineering or programming background. Any language is acceptable but prefer experience with Python, C#, or .NET. Proven experience with industry standard monitoring and alerting tools. Proficiency with Docker, EKS, and microservice architecture in general. Proficiency with log aggregation tools such as ELK or Splunk. Architecting and deploying advanced cloud infrastructures within AWS. Solid understanding of web services, databases and related infrastructure/architectures. Solid understanding of backup/restore best practices. Release software through tooling (Azure DevOps, Github Actions, Jenkins, etc). Excellent troubleshooting skills. Experience supporting an enterprise-level technology environment. Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently. Excellent written and interpersonal communication, and documentation skills. Demonstrable experience with cloud security fundamentals. Excellent collaboration skills across various business units. "Can do” attitude with a penchant for getting things done on time and on budget.