Lead Devops Engineer

Role: Lead Devops Engineer

Location: Des Moines, IA - Hybrid

Direct client

YOU MUST have:

• Deep expertise in Terraform.
• Proven track record in developing AWS services, particularly Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
• Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining Istio service mesh within an EKS cluster.

To be successful, you will have:

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Mastery

• Terraform & TypeScript Expertise: Hands-on experience designing and maintaining AWS infrastructure using Terraform and TypeScript to ensure high performance and reliability.
• Infrastructure Integrity: A proven ability to develop robust unit and integration tests to guarantee the stability and security of your IaC.
• CDK Proficiency: Experience building efficient, reusable, and reliable infrastructure using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).

Advanced AWS & Kubernetes Leadership

• EKS Specialization: Experience in AWS services, with a deep focus on Amazon EKS development and management.
• Service Mesh Architecture: Experience architecting and sustaining Istio service mesh within EKS clusters to ensure secure, seamless service interactions.
• Full-Stack AWS Management: Expert-level configuration of services including EC2, ECR, Cognito, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, and CloudFront.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Experience with Docker, microservices frameworks, and using Helm charts to streamline resource packaging and deployments.

DevOps Lifecycle & Performance

• CI/CD Leadership: Experience spearheading automated deployment pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub, and GitHub Actions.
• Observability & Monitoring: Skill in collecting telemetry and building comprehensive dashboards/alerts using FluentBit, CloudWatch, and Dynatrace to gain deep operational insights.
• Networking & Security: A rock-solid understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, SSL/TLS) and experience enforcing security best practices within AWS environments.

Collaborative Leadership

• Technical Mentorship: The ability to provide authoritative guidance and technical leadership, influencing and mentoring diverse engineering teams.
• Developer Advocacy: A passion for acting as an advocate for Cloud capabilities, working across teams to design user-friendly hybrid cloud environments.
• Agile Mindset: Comfort working in fast-paced Agile environments and a background in large-scale or public sector projects, ensuring the AWS environment adheres to the highest operational and security standards.

Education/Certifications:

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or a computer-related program.
• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, etc.