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Responsibilities:
As a Senior DevOps engineer, you will be in charge of planning and deploying production servers on AWS, deploying services and managing Kubernetes clusters, monitoring our infrastructure, and supporting our development teams.
Develop, automate, and enhance applications built on AWS
Lead discussions with developers, driving technical/architectural decisions relating to DevOps/AWS best practices
Deploy Infrastructure as code (IAC) to improve the availability, scalability, and efficiency of platforms
Develop and enrich our platforms by leveraging open source software.
Design and implement low-latency networking products.
Ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of production systems.
Build automated tests, monitoring and alerting mechanisms to help assure quality and stability of various services.
System troubleshooting and problem-solving across the platform.
Suggest and implement best practices and architecture improvements.
Utilize best in class code automation strategies.
Contribute to better cost management through efficient utilization of compute and storage resources.
Document processes and maintain software development records.
Qualification:
5+ years of experience with AWS Cloud Services in a 24x7 uptime environment
Good knowledge of Linux and shell scripting
Basic understanding of relational database management systems (PostgreSQL)
Experience with deployment and orchestration technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Gitlab, Jenkins (or similar platforms).
Intensive knowledge of most core DevOps concepts and tools spanning source control, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, alerting, and logging
Extensive proficiency with Java, Python, Scala, and SQL; this includes all aspects from development through to production (build tools, deployment tools, deployment methods, configuration strategies, etc)
Deep knowledge of AWS Cloud Computing (scalability and optimization)
Knowledge of orchestration frameworks (e.g. Airflow) and containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience with Big Data (Hive, Spark, Trino, etc.) is a plus
Experience with system monitoring tools, analyze and resolve complex infrastructure and application deployment issues
Experience in SQL and relational database management systems
A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fields, or equivalent work experience
