Sr. AWS Dev Ops

Codetech•San Antonio, TX

About The Position

SWIVEL is seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer to support critical, customer-facing platforms that require consistent uptime while advancing reliability, repeatability, security, and innovation. The role works on small-team initiatives and collaborates with DevOps, software engineering, and business teams to improve deployment practices and service levels, lower costs, and deliver features more quickly. The engineer will design monitoring, alerting, and log aggregation approaches for troubleshooting, trend analysis, proactive issue notification, and communicating service metrics to business stakeholders. The role also owns and manages AWS infrastructure, develops automation for cloud infrastructure deployment and operations, and helps establish policies and procedures for a growing microservice architecture. Work includes ensuring availability, recoverability, security, and compliance; identifying performance and scalability improvements; and monitoring risks to site SLAs and delivery.

Requirements

Required AWS certifications, such as Solutions Architect or Developer.
At least 3 years managing AWS infrastructure.
At least 5 years of DevOps engineering experience.
At least 3 years of experience with Terraform or CloudFormation.
At least 3 years of experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD.
Strong software engineering or programming background.
Experience with industry-standard monitoring and alerting tools.
Proficiency with Docker, EKS, and microservice architecture.
Proficiency with log aggregation tools such as ELK or Splunk.
Experience architecting and deploying advanced cloud infrastructure within AWS.
Solid understanding of web services, databases, and related infrastructure and architectures.
Solid understanding of backup and restore best practices.
Experience releasing software through tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
Excellent troubleshooting skills.
Experience supporting an enterprise-level technology environment.
Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently.
Excellent written, interpersonal communication, and documentation skills.
Demonstrable experience with cloud security fundamentals.
Excellent collaboration skills across business units.
A can-do attitude and ability to get work done on time and on budget.

Nice To Haves

Programming experience with Python, C#, or .NET.

Responsibilities

Help Software Engineering teams maximize development velocity while enforcing best practices and security standards.
Own, architect, and manage AWS infrastructure components such as Lambda and EKS.
Design and implement automation technologies for deploying, maintaining, and operating cloud infrastructure.
Deploy to AWS using Azure DevOps-based source control and CI/CD pipeline design.
Create policies and procedures to support a rapidly growing microservice architecture.
Ensure cloud-based architectures meet availability and recoverability requirements.
Implement cloud-based monitoring and alerting.
Design monitoring and alerting for conditions such as application errors and high memory usage.
Design log aggregation approaches for troubleshooting, trend analysis, proactive stakeholder notifications, and communicating metrics.
Identify scalability bottlenecks and performance improvement opportunities.
Identify and execute opportunities to set standards for cloud infrastructure design and automation.
Actively monitor risks to site SLAs and overall delivery.
Collaborate with DevOps, software engineering, and business teams on service improvements.