DevOps Engineer III

Verisk•Jersey City, NJ

7d•$110,000 - $135,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The DevOps Engineer III is responsible for building, maintaining, and optimizing the infrastructure that supports mission-critical applications, ensuring the stability, security, and reliability of production systems. The role focuses heavily on automation, cloud infrastructure management (AWS), continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), and monitoring production environments. This position partners closely with developers to troubleshoot application and server issues, resolve production incidents, and lead deployments and migrations. The engineer also mentors junior team members while driving improvements in operational efficiency and system performance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field required.
3 years of proven experience with Linux Administration, Windows Administration, and IIS Management.
Deep understanding of IIS concepts and settings.
3 years of experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) – EC2, S3, CloudFormation, CLI, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDb
Deep knowledge of multiple monitoring tools and how to mine them for advanced data
Proficient in: Bash, Chef, Powershell, Python, XML, Web concepts such as REST APIs and SPA, HTTP Get and Post
Demonstrated mastery of Development tools and methodologies, such as Firewall concepts, network connectivity, XML config files, Rest API calls, HTTP Headers and Response Codes
Deep experience and knowledge with Continuous Integration/Deployment Technologies: Atlassian Bamboo, Octopus Deploy, MSBuild, NUnit, GIT, Maven, Docker.
Must have passion for technology and focused on automation.

Responsibilities

Administer and build complex Development Continuous Integration pipelines.
Design Build plans, assist developers with failures and manage software configurations.
Ensure end-to-end deployments succeed and AWS resources come up in an automated fashion.
Plans Cloud environment and implements plan.
Provides direction to developers with server troubleshooting and application errors due to environmental issues.
Debug Production Outages and take actions resulting from root cause analysis.
Monitor Production Environment and take action to keep systems stable and running.
Leads Production Migrations (off-hours) and provide off-hour support when needed to troubleshoot problems with mission-critical applications.
Mentor and guide more junior colleagues.
Assist others with their tasks and educate them to become more knowledgeable and independent.