CLOUD DEVOPS ENGINEER

Gerdau•Tampa, FL

About The Position

This role involves driving automation standards across testing and production environments, and being a key resource for migrating monolith and microservice applications to the cloud. The engineer will create high-performance, scalable, and fault-tolerant computing systems, research solutions to technical DevOps challenges, and automate infrastructure creation on cloud platforms like AWS and Azure. Responsibilities include designing and implementing security governance, automating pipelines and environments, building resilient systems, creating repeatable processes, and updating monitoring systems. The role also focuses on improving automation in integration, deployment, monitoring, and configuration management. The engineer will design and deploy assets and code in an Agile (Scrum) environment to support deployment, testing, monitoring, and maintenance of components and services for next-generation platforms. This includes participating in the design and development process from definition to deployment, leading daily operational support, verifying and monitoring on-premises and cloud environments, responding to issues, and recommending design trade-offs and troubleshooting assistance. A key aspect is designing and implementing fault-tolerant architecture for all applications.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar engineering discipline from an accredited university
5 years of professional experience
Knowledge of Agile and Project Management
Experience working with Cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure)
Experience operating in virtual environments required
Experience with both Windows and Unix-based operating systems required
Knowledge of deployment and configuration technologies (e.g., Gitlab, Jenkins, Ansible, etc.)
Knowledge of Containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, K8s, etc.)
Knowledge of IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure ARM)
Knowledge of tools, such as Helm, Artifactory, SonarQube, etc.
Knowledge of source control technologies (e.g., Git, subversion)
Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Bash)

Nice To Haves

Customer-Centric – Focus efforts to ensure internal and external customers thrive
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
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.

Responsibilities

Drive automation standards across testing and production environments.
Be a key resource for migrating monolith and microservice applications to the cloud.
Create high-performance, scalable, and fault-tolerant computing systems.
Research and provide solutions to challenging technical issues related to DevOps.
Automate infrastructure creation on the cloud, such as AWS, Azure, and others.
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 aspects of developed solutions and development infrastructure.
Design and deploy, in an Agile (Scrum) environment, assets and code that will help deploy, test, monitor, as well as maintain components and services for next-generation service platforms.
Participate in the design and development process from definition to deployment.
Lead daily operational support activities for services developed using the DevOps practice.
Verify and monitor on-premises and cloud environments and respond to issues as they arise, adding new monitoring as needed.
Recommend alternate choices and trade-offs for various design decisions.
Assist with troubleshooting issues.
Design and implement Fault tolerance architecture for all the applications.