Job Description :
Job Title: Cloud Devops Specialist
Location: New York City, NY (1 New York Plaza, 21st Floor | New York, NY 10004)
Duration: FTE role
Job Description:
Experienced Devops specialist required to work on public cloud projects with opportunities to work on both Azure and AWS in a global financial organization.
This role requires the successful candidate to have:
· Experience in transforming IT Service Delivery to one of a Devops culture
· Strong infrastructure, development and Devops skills
· Proven track record of service ownership, accountability and building trusted relationships
· Experience in Change and Incident Management concepts
Primary responsibilities:
· Work in a globally distributed team to provide innovative and robust public Cloud solutions
· Collaborate with vendors to develop and deploy Cloud services to meet customer expectations
· Collaborate with IT Security to ensure necessary controls to Cloud services are deployed and tested
· Design compliant infrastructure and supporting services in the Cloud platform
· Design, optimize and document the operational aspects of the Cloud platform
· Develop Infra as Code to automate cloud deployments
· Develop automation workflows in CI/CD pipeline adhering to change management process
· Facilitate tabletop exercises for incident management processes, chaos engineering
· Evaluate and implement emerging Devops tools
Required Skills:
· Experience with Infrastructure as Code
· Experience with CI/CD pipelines
· Sound knowledge of server infrastructure and cloud computing
· Good knowledge of security (SAML, OAuth, OpenID, Kerberos, Policies, entitlements etc
· Experience with architecting and maintaining high availability production systems
· Strong development skills in PowerShell and/or Python
· Experience in software installation, configuration and patching
· Experience in Terraform automation / orchestration (or similar)
· Knowledge of system monitoring in a cloud environment including cloud specific products and tools
· Experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies
· Developing monitoring architecture and implementing monitoring agents, dashboards, escalations and alerts
· Strong communication and written skills
· Experience creating technical architecture documentation
Desired Skills:-
· Knowledge of security controls for the Public cloud (encryption of data in motion/rest and key management)
· Hands-on experience with Azure and/or AWS design and implementation
· Knowledge of Linux and Windows containers
· RedHat Enterprise Linux knowledge
· Experience with Open Source Cloud and configuration management tools (Puppet, Chef)
· Experience with alternate cloud providers (e.g. Google Cloud Platform)
· Experience in the financial industry
· Bachelor degree in a related field