Lead DevOps Engineer
About The Position
We are seeking a highly experienced Lead DevOps Engineer with over 13 years of experience in distributed applications at scale in cloud environments, particularly AWS. The ideal candidate will have expert knowledge of AWS services and architecture patterns, a proven track record of scaling large, distributed applications, and a strong background in infrastructure and application security. This role involves designing, implementing, and managing secure and compliant cloud infrastructure, automating deployments, and ensuring optimal system performance. You will also be responsible for troubleshooting technical issues and collaborating with multiple stakeholders.
Requirements
- 13+ years' experience with distributed applications at scale in cloud (AWS), or equivalent experience
- Expert knowledge of AWS services and architecture patterns
- Proven experience scaling large, distributed applications
- Strong background in infrastructure and application security
- Hands-on experience with Cloudflare (DNS, WAF, CDN, DDoS mitigation)
- Proficiency with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS)
- Solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage conflict effectively
- Ability to adapt and be productive in a dynamic environment
- Strong communication and collaboration skills supporting multiple stakeholders and business operations
- Self-starter, self-managed, and a team player
Nice To Haves
- Deep understanding of high-performance/distributed computing concepts, software development lifecycle and database and query performance monitoring/tuning
- Ability to automate builds, repetitive tasks, log analysis programmatically
- AWS Solutions Architect Certification
Responsibilities
- Design and implement cloud infrastructure, including selecting appropriate cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), networking, storage, and compute resources
- Ensure cloud environments are secure and compliant with industry standards and regulations by implementing security controls, access management, and encryption
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to cloud infrastructure and applications
- Authoring automated deployments using Terraform and/or CloudFormation
- Automated provision/orchestration of AWS resources
- System performance monitoring, reporting and optimization
- Experience with containers (Docker, EKS) and serverless (Lambda)
- Experience in implementing various AWS solutions like Data Sync, Batch Job, EMR
- Experience bootstrapping and automating the build of complete Kubernetes environments
- Experience with automated build in Jenkins or similar CI tools
- Experience in managing multiple AWS environments and the AWS ecosystem
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
