Short Description:
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.
Complete 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. This contract will extend on 7/1/26 through 6/30/27
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
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