Lead DevOps Engineer

The job overview for this position is that MerchantE is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to join their company. The Lead will be responsible for leading the DevOps team and mentoring other DevOps engineers. They will be in charge of creating, deploying, and maintaining infrastructure within their AWS accounts, as well as implementing and maintaining automated application releases and performance monitoring. The Lead DevOps Engineer will also be responsible for infrastructure quality assurance efforts and providing documentation on DevOps processes and procedures.

• Lead the DevOps team and mentor other DevOps engineers
• Create, deploy and maintain infrastructure within our AWS accounts, using IAC/Terraform, and utilizing various AWS services, including EC2, EKS, RDS, RedShift, S3, and IAM.
• Create, implement and maintain automated application releases using Bitbucket Pipelines.
• Create, implement and maintain application and infrastructure performance monitoring using Splunk or Prometheus/Loki/Grafana.
• Perform infrastructure quality assurance efforts.
• Develop and maintain documentation on DevOps processes and procedures.
• Implement and support procedures around technical security related activities such as vulnerability scanning, user access, analysis of security monitoring outputs, and coordination of remediation activities.
• Advise management of problems or conflicts; escalate critical matters.

• Lead the DevOps team and mentor other DevOps engineers
• Create, deploy and maintain infrastructure within our AWS accounts, using IAC/Terraform, and utilizing various AWS services, including EC2, EKS, RDS, RedShift, S3, and IAM.
• Create, implement and maintain automated application releases using Bitbucket Pipelines.
• Create, implement and maintain application and infrastructure performance monitoring using Splunk or Prometheus/Loki/Grafana.
• Perform infrastructure quality assurance efforts.
• Develop and maintain documentation on DevOps processes and procedures.
• Implement and support procedures around technical security related activities such as vulnerability scanning, user access, analysis of security monitoring outputs, and coordination of remediation activities.
• Advise management of problems or conflicts; escalate critical matters.
• 8+ years' experience in cloud infrastructure and DevOps activities.
• US work authorization required (No H1B or F-1 visa sponsorship available).

• Infrastructure quality assurance efforts
• Documentation on DevOps processes and procedures
• Technical security related activities such as vulnerability scanning and user access
• Analysis of security monitoring outputs
• Coordination of remediation activities
• Expertise in cloud computing and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Proficiency in Linux system administration and security
• Containerization technologies, especially Kubernetes
• Code versioning tools (e.g. GitLab, BitBucket)
• CI/CD tools (e.g. BitBucket Pipelines)
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as bash and Python
• Experience with cloud native tooling (Helm Charts, ArgoCD, HashiCorp Vault, Harbor, Reloader, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)
• Experience with cloud native analytics tools (ElasticSearch, MongoDB, RedShift, Looker)
• Experience with Kafka (a plus)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills