Cloud Engineer- Princeton, NJ- 2 days in office () Full time

Senior DevOps Engineer role on our Business Systems Development team.  This is a hands-on-keyboard, technical role. In this role, you will own the administration of Kubernetes clusters, onboarding of various applications, setting up observability and other tools in a hybrid environment spanning on-prem and cloud.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Primary responsibility for end-to-end k8s application onboarding
• Set up Jenkins pipelines for building container images and work with various image registries
• Implement authentication and authorization workflows using Keycloak and AWS IAM across EKS and on-prem Kubernetes clusters
• Implement solutions for monitoring and supporting tools for container storage and container networking
• Conduct production-readiness reviews and checklists for onboarding and supporting applications in k8s
• Automate procedures such as disaster-recovery, stress tests and custom environment turn ups using Python
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, resolve and document problems, and implement preventive measures
• Participate in applying SRE principles such as availability SLIs, error budgets, incident reviews, alerting and be part of an on-call ROTA

Organizational Structure

The Senior DevOps Engineer will report directly to the Director of DevOps in the Business Systems Development Department.

Qualifications

• 3 or more years of experience in building Linux containers and container orchestration
• 3 or more years of experience with Kubernetes app manifests - Kustomize, Helm Charts
• Experience with Kubernetes networking - container networking, Ingress such as nginx and service mesh
• Strong familiarity with Transport Layer Security, Certificates, etc.
• Experience in GitOps for Kubernetes – Flux and ArgoCD
• Knowledge of web services, APIs, REST and RPC calls, HTTPS APIs and Service Discovery
• Strong Linux background and containerization principles
• Experience with Shell Scripts and working knowledge of PythonObservability tools including - Prometheus, Alert Manager, Splunk and Grafana
• Knowledge of Go is desirable
• Proficiency in managing unified identity lifecycles, with hands-on expertise in Keycloak and AWS IAM policies is desirable
• Experience with Kafka and managing Kafka clusters is desirable
• Experience with Jenkins or other CI/CD frameworks is desirable
• Java, Groovy or NodeJS/React programming is desirable
• Working knowledge of AWS EKS, Load Balancers, EC2 Instances, S3 Storage, VPCs, RDS, DynamoDB, Network Firewalls, ECS is desirable
• Working knowledge of AWS CloudWatch Logs and Alarms and building observability is desirable

Education and Experience

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 3+ years of experience using cloud technologies to support large-scale business applications
• Experience in financial services or other regulated industries
• Experience working with AWS CDK or IaC frameworks in Python or NodeJS