Senior DevOps Engineer
About The Position
ACA Group is a leading provider of scalable compliance, risk, and technology solutions for financial services firms. The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for the architecture, design, implementation, and management of the AWS cloud infrastructure for ACA Group’s software, provisioned using the CDK. This role offers the opportunity to shape and scale the cloud foundation that powers ACA’s software products. You will work with a modern AWS-native stack, collaborate closely with developers and product teams, and influence architectural decisions that directly impact performance, reliability, and security across our platforms. You will contribute to building thoughtful, well-architected infrastructure using IaC, automation, and DevOps best practices, with room to experiment, bring forward new ideas, and continuously refine how we deliver and operate.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or equivalent work experience
- Background in Software Development or Software Engineering
- Five years of professional hands-on experience building and managing AWS infrastructure using IaC (either using the AWS CDK using TypeScript, Terraform, or CloudFormation)
- Experience with scripting languages – Python (Boto3), Bash (AWS CLI), PowerShell, TypeScript (nice to have)
- Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
- Deep experience with observability platforms (New Relic, CloudWatch, Athena)
- Experience containerizing workloads and working with Docker environments
- Knowledge of Serverless architecture patterns and best practices
- Experience with and understanding of Linux and Windows environments
- Deep network architecture knowledge including VPN, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect
- Experience with RDS, EC2, Fargate, S3, Glacier, Lambdas, ECS, EKS, Secrets, and CloudFront
- Experience with project management and collaboration tools like Jira and Confluence
- Ability to work well in a fast-paced, small-team environment
- Ability to work independently, multi-task, and prioritize effectively
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and clients
- Highly motivated and goal oriented; proactive in one’s own education and career progression; volunteers for and shows initiative on both internal and external projects and tasks
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
- Strong oral and written communication skills
Nice To Haves
- AWS certifications are a plus but not required
- Experience with Azure or Google Cloud is a plus but not required
- Experience with GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy
- Software Development experience using C#, TypeScript, Python, Java is a big plus
- Experience with Ruby or Golang is a plus
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain secure and fault tolerant infrastructure and cloud software environments while applying fundamental principles of the AWS Well Architected Framework
- Manage the immutable infrastructure via CDK written in TypeScript
- Operate the development tools, such as IDEs, test environments, code repositories, artifact hosting, test runners, and automated release processes to enable developers
- Oversee the deployment of servers, storage, databases, and other required infrastructure
- Help design, oversee, and test the disaster recovery and business continuity plans
- Participate on an agile team and work in the full development lifecycle
- Perform analysis, design, development, unit testing, code reviews and deployment of cloud infrastructure
- Participate in an on-call rotation
- Make pragmatic design and architectural decisions with security in mind
- Investigate and pinpoint defects, deficiencies, or service outages
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
