Sr. DevOps Engineer

Swivel•San Antonio, TX

About The Position

SWIVEL is seeking a high-performing, hands-on Sr. DevOps Engineer committed to the practices required to support critical customer-facing platforms requiring consistent uptime while driving continuous improvement and innovation. Participate in small-team initiatives to continuously refine our deployment practices for improved reliability, repeatability, and security. You will create plans, collaborate with other DevOps team members, and coordinate with software engineering and business teams. These high-visibility initiatives will help to increase service levels, lower costs, and deliver features more quickly. Design effective monitoring and alerting for conditions such as application errors and high memory usage. Design log aggregation approaches to quickly access logs for troubleshooting or generate reports for trend analysis to proactively notify business stakeholders of issues and communicate metrics while working closely with these stakeholders. Doing the audacious is part of SWIVEL’s DNA. We are a company that rewards creative minds who can offer bold solutions, where opinions matter, anything is possible, and the outcome can be revolutionary. As a cutting-edge financial services company, SWIVEL is doing big things and needs the brightest minds to tackle the biggest challenges. Come join us!

Requirements

AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, Developer) required.
At least three (3) years managing AWS infrastructure.
At least five (5) years DevOps engineering experience.
At least three (3) years CDK or CloudFormation.
At least three (3) years Github CI/CD.
A strong software engineering or programming background. Any language is acceptable but prefer experience with Python, C#, or .NET.
Proven experience with industry standard monitoring and alerting tools.
Proficiency with Docker, ECS, and microservice architecture in general.
Proficiency with log aggregation tools such as ELK or Splunk.
Architecting and deploying advanced cloud infrastructures within AWS.
Solid understanding of web services, databases and related infrastructure/architectures.
Solid understanding of backup/restore best practices.
Release software through tooling (Azure DevOps, Github Actions, Jenkins, etc).
Excellent troubleshooting skills.
Experience supporting an enterprise-level technology environment.
Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently.
Excellent written and interpersonal communication, and documentation skills.
Demonstrable experience with cloud security fundamentals.
Excellent collaboration skills across various business units.
"Can do" attitude with a penchant for getting things done on time and on budget.

Responsibilities

Delivering excellence to our Software Engineering teams, empowering them to maximize development velocity while simultaneously enforcing best practices and security standards.
Ownership, architecture, and management of AWS infrastructure components such as Lambda, ECS, etc.
Building with a mind for both security and compliance.
Deploying to AWS via GitHub-based source control and CI/CD pipeline design.
Owning the technical design, and implementation of the automation technologies required for deploying, maintaining and operating cloud infrastructure.
Creating the policies and procedures for properly supporting our rapidly growing microservice architecture.
Ensuring cloud-based architectures meet availability and recoverability requirements.
Implementation of cloud-based monitoring and alerting.
Find scalability bottlenecks and areas for performance improvements.
Identify and execute on opportunities to help set the standard for excellence in cloud infrastructure design and automation.
Active monitoring of risks to site SLAs and overall delivery.