AWS DevOps Engineer

Elite WorkForce•Tampa, FL

13h

About The Position

Our client is a leading global steel producer. This role is an opportunity to drive automation standards across testing and production environments and be a key resource as we migrate our monolith and microservice application to the cloud. You will create high-performance, scalable, and fault-tolerant computing systems while researching and providing solutions to challenging technical issues related to DevOps. Responsibilities include automating infrastructure creation on cloud platforms like AWS and Azure, designing and implementing security governance practices, and automating pipelines and environments. You will build resilient systems, create repeatable processes, and update monitoring systems to detect service and security issues. The role involves improving automation in integration, deployment, monitoring, and configuration management. You will design and deploy assets and code in an Agile (Scrum) environment to help deploy, test, monitor, and maintain components and services for next-generation service platforms. This includes participating in the design and development process from definition to deployment, leading day-to-day operational support activities, and verifying and monitoring on-premises and cloud environments. You will also recommend alternate choices and trade-offs for design decisions and assist with troubleshooting issues, as well as design and implement fault tolerance architecture for all applications.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar engineering discipline from an accredited university
At least 8 years of professional experience
Knowledge of deployment and configuration technologies (e.g., Gitlab, Jenkins, Ansible, etc.)
Knowledge of Containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, K8s, etc.)
Working Experience with Cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure)
Knowledge of IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure ARM)
Knowledge of tools like Helm, Artifactory, SonarQube, etc.
Knowledge of source control technologies (e.g., Git, subversion)
Experience operating in virtual environments required
Experience with both Windows and Unix based operating systems required
Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Bash)
Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
Team player
Excellent time-management skills
Interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to effectively analyze data and present solid recommendations

Nice To Haves

Customer-Centric – Focus efforts to ensure internal and external customers thrive
Communication and Persuasion – Possess solid communication and persuasion skills essential to success in this position. You will represent the Digital IT group effectively and employ negotiation skills that build organizational consensus around a specific course of action while identifying communication barriers and taking action to facilitate mutual understanding.
Business Acumen – Acknowledge the impact of your actions in local and global contexts while working to generate sustainable value (economic, social, and environmental) for the organization. In addition, you should understand basic business processes and possess the ability to identify and develop workflows and process maps for continual improvement and waste elimination within the business.
Technical Expertise – Understand all IT functions, cloud technologies, and services in use, and become familiar with the current direction in the infrastructure market
Strategic Thinking and Vision – Possess a clear sense of the direction of the organization and understand what will create a competitive advantage for the business in the future. Distinguish tactical issues from strategic ones and take action while effectively translating strategic imperatives at the macro level into initiatives and priorities.
Simplistic Agility – Foster simplicity and agility to look for ways to streamline work and processes to become more effective and efficient while developing new ideas quickly
Global Perspective – Ability to successfully operate in a global IT organization bringing perspective to daily work while leveraging relationships, expertise, and opportunities across borders taking the company's strategy and priorities into consideration.
Accountability – Take initiative and assume personal accountability and ownership for goals, outcomes, and deadlines holding others accountable for achieving individual and organizational objectives.
Analysis – Possess critical thinking ability and deal systematically with input from a variety of sources to suggest alternative approaches to unfamiliar situations or concepts, as well as strong analytical skills, including an understanding of business economics and financial resources.
Supplier Management – Possess the ability to engage and manage suppliers as needed for discovery, modeling, implementation, and support.

Responsibilities

Drive automation standards across testing and production environments.
Create high-performance, scalable, and fault-tolerant computing systems.
Research and provide solutions to challenging technical issues related to DevOps.
Automate infrastructure creation on cloud platforms like AWS and Azure.
Design and implement security governance practices for applications and infrastructure.
Automate pipelines and environments, build resilient systems, and create repeatable processes.
Update monitoring systems to detect service and security issues.
Improve automation degree in integration, deployment, monitoring, and configuration management.
Design and deploy assets and code in an Agile (Scrum) environment.
Participate in the design and development process from definition to deployment.
Lead day-to-day operational support activities for services developed using the DevOps practice.
Verify and monitor on-premises and cloud environments and respond to issues.
Recommend alternate choices and trade-offs for various design decisions.
Assist with troubleshooting issues.
Design and implement Fault tolerance architecture for all applications.