Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS/Python

AWS Sr DevOps Engineer

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you are the cornerstone of operational excellence, driving forward innovations that redefine industries. Your expertise in DevOps practices will ensure the seamless integration and continuous delivery of our groundbreaking projects, from transforming urban living to pioneering new healthcare solutions. Your role is pivotal in mentoring a dynamic team, optimizing deployment strategies, and implementing cutting-edge technologies to keep us at the forefront of the tech landscape.

Desired Capabilities

• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work well in a team
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Time management and organizational skills
• Ability to learn quickly
• Adaptability and flexibility
• Proven ability to lead and mentor junior members of the QA team

Key Responsibilities

The candidate needs the ability to perform a strategic project to enhance code maintenance and test coverage across multiple code repositories:

• Code Review and Maintenance: Ability to look at code in their GitHub repos and provide maintenance on them.
• Analysis and Planning: Analyze and develop a plan for each repository to document the code, increase test coverage, and provide a way for proper maintenance.
• Test Coverage: Increase AWS infrastructure test coverage to 90% from the current level of roughly 10% across the repos.
• Leadership in Automation and CI/CD: Lead the design and enhancement of automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines, setting standards for excellence. Containerization technologies such as AWS technologies.
• Advanced Cloud Strategy: Architect and manage complex cloud environments, focusing on performance, security, and scalability. Cloud platforms such as AWS. Configuration management tools such as Terraform and CDK scripting.
• Strategic Problem-Solving: Tackle complex system performance issues, employing advanced analytical skills to maintain reliability and efficiency.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, with proficient coding skills in Python.
• Minimum five years of experience delivering systems to production, with an emphasis on Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Experience writing and publishing reusable, tested modules or libraries for consumption by other teams and team members.
• Minimum four years of experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery and tools (e.g., Azure DevOps Services, GitHub Actions, etc.), including ability to coach other engineers in the same.
• Experience with integrating security at design time, and regularly evaluating efficacy of security measures.
• Experience performing code reviews, pull requests, and following source control standards such as Git Flow or Trunk-Based Development required.
• Experience designing and delivering two or more infrastructure systems (e.g., Azure PaaS, Azure IaaS, Windows or Linux servers, SAN, Exchange, IIS, Active Directory, Azure AD, etc.) with automation and central configuration management required.
• Experience with multiple database technologies including pla