Remote AWS Devops Engineer

Summary

Join a remote-first company as a Devops Engineer to assist in developing an MVP, including CRM and Billing Systems. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.

Requirements

• Experience working as DevOps, SysOps, SRE or similar for at least 2 years
• Familiarity with AWS services, including CloudTrail, AWS Organizations, EC2, ECS, EKS, Elasticache, IAM, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, Route53, and S3
• Experienced with Docker and deploying micro services
• Understands how to control Cloud costs
• Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and automation
• Strong working knowledge of Linux and shell scripting
• Ability to work remotely and effectively collaborate with distributed teams

Responsibilities

• Must have a hands-on experience on setting up Kubernetes platform, deploying microservices and other web applications, and managing secure secrets
• Knowledge and practical experience with Docker is a must - including setting up and managing Docker registries as well as creating Dockerfiles to create custom images
• Should have working knowledge of container orchestration using Kubernetes
• Should have knowledge of overlay networking needed for inter-container communications from different nodes
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines
• Experience automating systems deployments and configuration management using tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Saltstack
• Working experience with source control systems like Git
• Ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience
• Ability to demonstrate a clear, energetic and excited interest in automating everything (build, test, release/deploy, monitoring, reporting), which includes "Infrastructure as Code"
• Able to build, deploy, and host a demo web app written in the code of your choice to prove minimum general IT/DevOps proficiency

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as PHP, Javascript, or Python is a plus
• Understanding of incident management processes and service level objectives (SLOs)
• Ability to perform root cause analysis in AWS environments and debug micro services using Cloudwatch or related monitoring products
• Comfortable being part of the On-Call rotation

Benefits

• Top-tier pay for top-tier talent
• Remote work opportunity
• Workplace diversity with employees working from different parts of the world