Overall Responsibilities:
1. Building CodeDeploy Pipelines:
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using AWS services such as CodeDeploy, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline.
- Automate the entire build process, including code testing, validation, security scanning, packaging, and deployment of both application and infrastructure code.
- Integrate with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI for advanced pipeline management.
- Ensure that pipelines are robust, scalable, and easily maintainable.
2. Automating, Improving, and Maintaining AWS Build:
- Lead the automation of AWS environments, building and maintaining infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
- Optimize AWS services such as EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudFront, and IAM to ensure cost-effectiveness, performance, and security.
- Automate the deployment and management of infrastructure updates, ensuring zero downtime and smooth rollbacks.
3. Influencing AWS Architecture:
- Provide thought leadership and guidance on AWS architecture, ensuring best practices for security, scalability, and performance.
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to design and implement highly available and fault-tolerant systems.
- Evaluate and recommend AWS services and third-party tools that can enhance the architecture and development process.
- Drive cloud architecture improvements, reducing complexity and increasing the team's ability to deliver.
4. Automating Toil:
- Identify and eliminate manual, repetitive tasks (toil) by designing automation solutions for various operational processes.
- Use tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or AWS Systems Manager to automate configuration management and environment setup.
- Automate routine monitoring, alerting, and maintenance tasks, freeing up engineering time for more strategic work.
5. Adding Observability and SRE Features:
- Implement and enhance observability across infrastructure and applications using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, or ELK Stack.
- Work with development teams to ensure SRE best practices are incorporated, such as SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
- Improve the reliability of services through enhanced monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting systems.
- Lead incident management and post-incident reviews, contributing to ongoing system reliability improvements.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps engineering with a focus on AWS cloud services.
- Strong proficiency in AWS services, including CodeDeploy, EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, CloudFront, VPC, S3, CloudFormation, IAM.
- Proven experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using CodeDeploy, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar tools.
- Expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Proficient in scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.) for automation tasks.
- Experience in automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or AWS Systems Manager.
- Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog, etc.) and implementing SRE practices.
- Knowledge of containerization and orchestration using Docker, ECS, Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts, security best practices, and performance optimization in AWS environments.
Qualification:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- Relevant certifications in emerging technologies
Soft Skills:
- Strong communication and leadership skills
- Ability to work well under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Excellent interpersonal and team-working skills
- Ability to effectively communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders
- Passionate about technology and a desire to stay up-to-date with the latest advancements.
SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.
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