Sr. AWS DevOps Engineer

Overview

Remote
$160,000 - $180,000
Full Time

Skills

Splunk (logging/monitoring)
Datadog (moving to Azure DevOps)
Kubernetes
Jenkins (CI/CD)
Azure

Job Details

Sr. AWS DevOps Engineer

100% Remote

Direct Hire | FTE

Team:

  • 8 engineers currently
  • 3 focused on Azure, 2 strong - 1 is stronger on AWS
    • Sit in Brazil
    • One helps additionally with the architecture and designing layouts
  • Backlog of projects for this team to implement
  • Moving to an agile set up (previously just worked off a Kanban board)
  • On call rotation for whole team regardless of level (~5-6 week rotation)
    • Nights/weekends
    • Rare to get called in - operations team gets called first, this team would be 2nd

Engineers (Level 4 and Level 5)

  • Level 5 = 7+ YOE (that is a rough guide, will be based on actual knowledge and hands on work)
  • #1 focus is on IaC; will also have standard cloud security, disaster recovery, automation responsibilities, but IaC and strong terraform experience is the biggest need
  • Manage cloud Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • Create/manage pipelines for landing zones, subscriptions, and security infrastructure; modify existing configurations, some hands on terraform code with new subscriptions
  • Working to migrate all version control from AWS DevOps to GitHub (leverage github actions and github runners)
  • Extensive experience with AWS (5+ years), specifically with Networking services (Vnet, DNS, Load Balancing, VPN Gateway)
  • Additional responsibilities: Cloud automation, monitoring, disaster recovery, documentation

Must Have Skills:

  • Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Networking Services (Vnet, Load balancing, CPN Gateway, DNS)
  • Github/GitHub actions (version control)
  • AWS DevOps
  • General expertise in AWS

Nice to Have Skills:

  • Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • Splunk (logging/monitoring)
  • Datadog (moving to Azure DevOps)
  • Jenkins (CI/CD)

Soft Skill:

  • Independent
  • Flexible to a lot changing directions/multiple projects at once

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