Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Location: Tulsa, OK (3 days a week from office- Hybrid)

Duration :6 Months

Job Description:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, or similar fields - a Master/PhD is a bonus (CGPA > 3.0 or similar grading is a must).
• 5+ years of professional experience as a DevOps Engineer, SysOps Engineer, Software Engineer, API Engineer, or similar role with proven experience in software development and operations.
• Proven experience in the following technologies is a must: microservices architecture, AWS and public cloud, REST API design, Pub/sub and event-driven architecture, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Proven hands-on experience with one or more programming languages (Java preferred), scripting languages, and CI/CD/DevOps tooling (GitLab, Terraform, EKS) using modern technologies.
• Experience working within Agile teams and comfort in a continuous delivery environment.
• Excellent analytical capabilities, the ability to communicate with both technical and business stakeholders, highly committed, self-driven, and customer-oriented.
• Team player with a hands-on mentality; able to set priorities to craft a direction while also able to work independently.
• Passionate and constantly learning about new software technology and architecture.

Job Responsibilities:

• Own and drive the technical implementation and operations of core technical components, platform interfaces, security interfaces, and CI/CD pipelines, such as API Management platforms, web reverse proxies, web applications, web services, content delivery networks, and web application firewalls.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner, Solution Architect, and other Developers to define and deliver feature and operational improvements following Enterprise Architecture and Security principles.
• Provide support to product development teams by setting up CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, monitoring, and operations; coordinating and performing releases; and providing 2nd/3rd level support for the solutions.
• Coordinate and perform evergreen activities with product development teams.
• Continuously explore new technologies and solutions to drive technical change on the Cloud platform.
• Continuously explore and drive improvements in terms of new technologies and solutions on the Cloud platform.
• Stay up to date on technology trends, focusing on Observability, Software Architecture & Security, and Cloud Computing topics.

Ideal candidate:

• Deep knowledge of AWS: Access Management, network basics, different AWS components: lambdas, dynamodb, eventbus, sqs, sns, ECS, Docker
• Deep knowledge of terraform: understanding terraform dependency tree, lifecycle management, state management
• CI/CD: GitLab or similar, bash scripting, runners optimization, access management and protected environments, modern deployment strategies (blue/green, canary)
• Observability: open telemetry, DataDog, alerting, proactive monitoring, SLOs

Good to have:

• Programming experience in any of java/python/typescript/js
• Troubleshooting java and ECS services, lambdas
• EKS
• Disaster recovery setup experience