Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary:

The Department of Management’s Division of IT is on the lookout for a highly skilled DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience and deep expertise in Terraform to join our team.

Job Description:

The Department of Management’s Division of IT is leading the charge in modernizing mission-critical applications through cutting-edge technology and Agile methodologies. We are on the lookout for a highly skilled DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience and deep expertise in Terraform to join our team. This role is pivotal in the transformation of the Iowa Workforce Development’s (IWD) UI Tax system, ensuring that our systems are re-architected to leverage industry-leading frameworks and provide exceptional service to both agency staff and end-users. This role is specifically designed for a seasoned DevOps Engineer with substantial hands-on experience in Terraform. 

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in developing AWS services, particularly Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and will possess extensive experience in designing, building, and maintaining Istio service mesh within an EKS cluster. If you do not meet these specific qualifications, this role is not for you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Terraform Mastery: Participate in the design, development, and maintenance of AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Typescript, ensuring best practices and optimal performance.
• Advanced AWS Services Management: Manage, configure, and optimize a broad range of AWS services, including but not limited to EC2, EKS, ECR, Cognito, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, and CloudFront.
• Service Mesh Expertise: Architect, build, and sustain Istio service mesh within EKS clusters to ensure seamless and secure service interactions
• Technical Leadership: Provide authoritative guidance and technical leadership in the implementation of AWS cloud infrastructure, influencing and mentoring diverse teams.
• Comprehensive Testing: Develop and maintain robust unit and integration tests to guarantee infrastructure as code (IaC) integrity and reliability.
• CI/CD Implementation: Spearhead the implementation and management of CI/CD pipelines, automating the deployment of infrastructure and applications for maximum efficiency.
• Monitoring & Performance Optimization: Collect telemetry, set up comprehensive monitoring systems, dashboards, and alerts, utilizing tools such as FluentBit, CloudWatch and Dynatrace to gain deep insights into cloud operations and application performance.
• Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues, ensuring high availability and optimal performance of infrastructure and services.
• Use Helm charts to package necessary resources and configurations, streamline installing, upgrading, fetching dependencies, and configuring deployments on EKS.
• Collaboration & Optimization: Collaborate closely with software engineers to optimize application performance and reliability in AWS environments.
• Security & Compliance: Implement and enforce security best practices and compliance controls, ensuring the AWS environment adheres to the highest operational and security standards.

Requirements:

• Terraform Expertise: hands-on experience in Terraform development using Typescript [required 4 years]
• EKS Development: experience in developing and managing AWS services, with a strong focus on Amazon EKS. [required 8 years]
• Service Mesh: experience in designing, building, and maintaining service mesh like Istio within an EKS environment [required 4 years]
• AWS Services Development: extensive experience in developing and managing various AWS services, including EC2, EKS, ECR, S3, Cognito, NLB. [required 8 years]
• Containers: experience working with Docker containers and microservices framework [required 6 years]
• Helm charts: experience working with Helm charts [required 6 years]
• Scripting Languages: Proficiency in scripting languages such as TypeScript and Python [required 6 years]
• CI/CD Tools Mastery: experience building pipelines using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, GitHub Actions, etc. [required 8 years]
• AWS Well-Architected Frameworks: A solid understanding of AWS Well-Architected Frameworks [required 4 years]
• Networking Concepts: Strong understanding of networking concepts and protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, SSL/TLS) [required 8 years]
• Security Best Practices: solid experience in implementing security best practices within AWS environments. [required 6 years]
• Configuration Management & Orchestration tools to ensure cloud environments meet operational and security standards. [required 8 years]
• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, etc. (PLEASE UPLOAD).
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Previous experience in the public sector or on large-scale projects