Job Description :
AWS Devops Architect,
San Francisco, CA
6+ Months Contract
Phone + In-Person
Description:
Support our cloud infrastructure to improve reliability, availability, and security.
Administer, maintain and support applications, and infrastructure deployed across microservices architecture.
Perform a wide variety of software/hardware configuration/maintenance and operational support tasks of many diverse back-end systems, including, but not limited to, AWS infrastructure, Postgres/SQL databases, and various application servers.
Collaborate with various engineering peers to analyze, tune, and configure Automatic platform infrastructure and systems.
Setup and maintain 24x7 monitoring of environments and services, working with development teams to ensure SLA uptime/stability.
Ensure rotational coverage for various after-hours deployments/maintenance windows.
This position is a hands-on individual contributor role, which includes expanded responsibilities surrounding all infrastructure support including applications, CI/CD systems, and DevOps infrastructure.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor''s degree in computer science, engineering, information sciences technology or related fields or equivalent, relevant experience.
Minimum of 5 years of full-time software engineering experience in a production operations environment.
Requirements and General Skills:
Requires a strong operations aptitude for multi-layered technical diagnostics triage, and a passion for building high-availability systems. Should have preferably worked previously in a production AWS environment performing such a role.
Prior experience with agile DevOps practices building self-service "development systems" provisioning processes.
Ability to design, implement and support solutions based on business needs, using industry professional and security best practices.
Be self-motivated, and exhibit efficient planning and coordination skills.
This position requires reasonable off-hours pager rotation availability, in order to support the platform availability and uptime requirements.
Must have legal right to work in the U.S.
Technical Skills:
4+ years of experience with AWS infrastructure and engineering in a hands-on technical role.
At least 3 years of xaaS Production experience with Configuration Management tools (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt) and infrastructure-as-code software, preferably Terraform
2+ years of experience building and supporting end-to-end CI/CD components delivering "no-downtime" Production releases.
4+ years of scripting experience with automation using Shell, Python, Perl.
Experience with AWS infrastructure.
Knowledge of production system basics which includes DNS, credential management, logging, cron, process management, and package management.
Hands-on experience with containerization platforms such as Kubernetes and Docker, and familiarity with microservices management a plus.
As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status.