DevOps Lead/Architect

Job Title:- DevOps Lead/Architect

Job Location:- Plano TX

Long Term Contract

Coding skill set:

• AWS

• Terraforms

• Microservices Architecture deployment

• Containerization: Kubernetes, Docker

• Source Control: Gitlab, Github

What we're looking for:

• 5-10 years' experience in Information Technology, 2-3+ years in an Architecture environment

• Should have achieved mastery in one of the SecDevops practices IaC-Terraform, SONAR, Git-CI Cloud-AWS, CICD-Git/Argo, microservices architecture deployment (primarily Kubernetes) with awareness about site reliability engineering principles, coupled with a willingness to learn and expand the knowledge.

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology

• Experience with source control and continuous integration tools

• Strong analytical and reasoning skills

• Good experience with cloud services (AWS), cloud engineering, architecture, and software as a service. Hands-on experience in AWS Services IAM, VPC, EKS, CloudFront, APIGW

• Ability to work in fast paced teams with quick decision making

• Scripting experience with Bash/Shell, Python

• Experience in IaC - Terraform is a must have

• CI (preferably Gitlab CI) and CD (preferably Argo CD)

• Kubernetes debugging experience

Qualifications/ What you bring (Must Haves) Highlight Top 3-5 skills

• Master in one of the DevSecOps practices IaC-Terraform, Cloud-AWS, CICD-Git/Argo, microservices architecture deployment (primarily Kubernetes) with awareness about site reliability engineering principles, coupled with a willingness to learn and expand the knowledge.

• Perform as an accountable resource and take ownership on assigned projects and tasks for delivery with quality and in a timely manner using Agile/JIRA best practices.

• Partner with application teams as a trusted advisor to ensure compliance and adoption of organizational SecDevops standards, processes, and industry best-practices for developing and deploying microservices in public cloud environments.

• Perform as an accountable resource and take ownership on assigned projects and tasks for delivery with quality and in a timely manner using Agile/JIRA best practices.

• Partner with application teams as a trusted advisor to ensure compliance and adoption of organizational and regulatory standards, processes, and industry best-practices for developing and deploying microservices in public cloud environments.

• Guide the technical leads to create the component and process flow diagrams and assist the application support team for performance, scalability, reliability, and capacity planning.

Added bonus if you have (Preferred):

• Cloud Platform Engineering team manages several tool stacks, if someone has expertise in more than one of the below, that'd be a great asset - AWS ECS, EC2, S3, SNS, SQS, MKS, Batch, Lambda, Cognito, SG, RDS, Cert Manager, Route 53, ALB, Param Store, Config, etc.

• IaC: Terraform Preferred, CloudFormation

• CI & CD: GitLab Preferred, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, Serverless

• Secrets Management: HCP Vault, AWS Secrets Manager

• Networking: Transit GW, VPC Peering, NAT, Istio, Traefik, HCP Consul, Nginx, Section.io, etc.

• Scripting: Python, GO, Bash/Shell, JavaScript, YAML, JSON

• Build Tools: Maven, Gradle, NPM, Bazel, Go

• Databases: RDS, SQL, MySQL, Postgres, RedShift, MongoDB, DynamoDB

• Security Scans: SAST, Secrets, Container, DAST, Xray, Prisma Cloud

• Logging and Monitoring: DataDog, Splunk, App Dynamics, ELK, Grafana

• Good knowledge of authentication/authorization standards, protocols, and frameworks such as OpenID, SAML, OAuth, JWT, CA, X.509, MTLS, etc. with a conceptual knowledge of IT Architectural frameworks like TOGAF with good understanding of service mesh and TechRadar practices