Job Description :
Senior DevOps Engineer
Chicago, IL
Perm – Direct Hire
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who will be focused on automation in Amazon Web Services (AWS) as we expand our online footprint.
Responsibilities:
Create infrastructure in AWS
Aid in the design of our infrastructure to ensure the systems are highly available and resilient
Enable the product development team to deliver new code daily through continuous integration and deployment pipelines
Aid in the design of infrastructure to ensure customer data security with continuous security practices and monitoring
Required Skills:
Ten years of experience in IT
Minimum of three years of experience maintaining consumer web applications in visualized environments, preferably AWS
Expert Linux skills
Expert skills in configuration management experience with Ansible or similar (Chef, Puppet, Salt)
Continuous integration setup and administration
Deep experience in release engineering: deployment pipelines; continuous deployment
Must have experience and knowledge of the Linux command line, including writing bash scripts
Networking fundamentals
Programming in Python, Ruby, Java, or similar
AWS operations experience, VPCs, ELBs, Route 53, RDS, Cloudwatch, IAM, EC2, etc.
Preferred Skills:
Experience with Version Control Software (Git preferred)
AWS Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Information Security expertise
o Firewalls, IDS, IPS, DDOS, WAF, VPNS, Application Scanning, Penetration Testing, Encryption, regulations (PCI, GLBA, SOX, etc
o Certifications: CISSP, SANS Certifications
Open-source monitoring experience (Sensu preferred)
Database administration of Postgresql or similar
Management of growing Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana stack
Architecting highly-available distributed systems