AWS DevOps Engineer

Position: AWS DevOps Engineer
Location: Plano, Texas
Duration: 12 Months Contract with possibility of extension
Job ID: 169151

Job Overview:
We are seeking an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer to join our team in Plano, Texas. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in SecDevOps practices, cloud engineering, and infrastructure as code (IaC) with Terraform. This role involves working on cutting-edge connected vehicle technology, ensuring compliance with security standards, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Write well-defined and tested code (IaC - Terraform) and build pipelines to enforce standards, frameworks, and architecture principles.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and web security teams to ensure compliance with technical solutions.
• Contribute as an individual and mentor team members on security disciplines to enhance overall security posture.
• Troubleshoot issues and debug codebases related to connected vehicle technology.
• Deploy, automate, manage, and maintain AWS cloud-based production systems.
• Adapt new technologies, tools, and processes as needed.
• Communicate effectively with team members and work collaboratively.
• Maintain and improve existing codebases and conduct peer code reviews.
• Ensure availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems.
• Manage the creation, release, and configuration of production systems.
• Perform system troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Information Technology.
• Mastery in one or more SecDevOps practices such as IaC-Terraform, Cloud-AWS, CICD-Git/Argo, and microservices architecture deployment (primarily Kubernetes).
• Hands-on experience with AWS services like IAM, VPC, EKS, CloudFront, and APIGW.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash/Shell and Python.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (preferably GitLab CI and Argo CD).
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Ability to work in fast-paced teams with quick decision-making.
• Good understanding of site reliability engineering principles.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expertise in additional AWS services such as ECS, EC2, S3, SNS, SQS, Lambda, and RDS.
• Experience with other IaC tools like CloudFormation.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools like GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and Docker.
• Knowledge of secrets management tools like HCP Vault and AWS Secrets Manager.
• Experience with networking tools like Transit GW, VPC Peering, and Istio.
• Familiarity with logging and monitoring tools like DataDog, Splunk, and Grafana.
• Experience with databases such as RDS, MySQL, Postgres, and DynamoDB.

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Pay Range: $70 - $75 Hourly on W2

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