Senior DevOps Engineer

Benefits

U.S.-based employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company contribution, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and wellbeing benefits, among others. U.S.-based employees also receive, per calendar year, up to 6 scheduled paid holidays. Additionally, eligible hourly/non-exempt and exempt employees accrue up to 112 hours of PTO based on years of service and may annually take up to 8 hours of paid volunteer time. Additional paid sick leave is also provided if required by state or local law.

Summary of Position

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for creating automation and supporting ongoing operations for Cloud Operations, Cloud Security, in AWS supporting technologies. This position will ensure that the team delivers value to cloud security, operations, and manages operations to maximize uptime, resiliency, availability, and system stability.

Essential Functions

• Provides senior subject matter expertise in development and maintenance of automation in support of project objectives using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Ansible / Ansible Tower, and Python, leveraging AWS management tools such as CloudFormation, System Manager, CloudWatch as well as future AWS management services.
• Demonstrated mastery in applying these tools within a high-scale AWS environment.
• Deliver on Commitments on time with high quality and sense of ownership and accountability.
• Ensure that the team delivers value to cloud security, operations, and manages operations to maximize uptime, availability, and system stability.
• Manage AWS infrastructure and services, including EC2, CloudWatch, S3, Redshift, RDS, CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Lambda, CloudWatch Alarms, Alerts, and Automation, VPC Management, network security groups, Network Access Control List, VerneMQ, Kafka, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Docker, Java, and Ruby on Rails.
• Work closely with the consulting team and client stakeholders to prevent incidents by delivering robust solutions, as well as resolving priority incidents and other production issues.
• Ensure the resolution of issues using professionalism, technical skills, common sense, and leadership.
• Reduce the cycle time between problem or incident identification and problem or incident resolution following policies and processes set by our team, the client, and industry best practices.
• Develop, maintain and communicate detailed engineering resource plans and schedules.
• Consult with business decision-makers and senior engineering staff to inform discussions related to technical decisions.
• Proactively identify project dependencies and develop and implement strategies to mitigate risks.
• Facilitate strong communication amongst team members and cross-functional leads.
• Mentor and develop fellow team members in leveraging automation techniques and technologies.

Competencies

• Ensures Accountability
• Tech Savvy
• Communicates Effectively
• Values Differences
• Customer Focus
• Resourcefulness
• Drives Results
• Plans and Prioritizes
• Decision Quality
• Self-Development

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee in this position frequently communicates with other co-workers/clients who have inquiries about the various projects and other needs. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations. The employee must be able to remain in a stationary position 75% of the time. The employee in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc. Constantly operate a computer and office machinery such as a calculator, keyboard, copy machine and printer. Frequently moves boxes with equipment weighing up to 25lbs across the building and/or to other offsite buildings for various project needs.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
• 8-10 Years of Experience

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of experience in managing AWS cloud infrastructure and services
• Experience in Incident, Problem, and Change Management
• Experience in supporting cloud security and architecture
• Strong problem-solving skills and a quality focus
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Relevant industry certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or similar

AAP/EEO Statement

3MD Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on gender, sex, age, race and color, religion, marital status, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other category that is protected by applicable law.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.