Remote Contract DevOps Engineer

Summary

The job description is for a contract DevOps Engineer role at Campspot, focusing on working with the Data Platform engineering team. The role involves various responsibilities such as on-call support, improving database performance monitoring, triaging and delegating query optimization, proactive maintenance and upgrades, cost optimization, rewriting reporting queries, providing feedback on team code reviews, and participating in architectural discussions.

Requirements

• Demonstrated expertise with the following AWS services: RDS, DMS, S3, DynamoDB, MSK, Secrets Manager, KMS, IAM, and Cloudwatch for highly available systems
• 1+ year of Terraform/Terragrunt module development for internal use
• Familiarity with cloud security and networking principles
• Able to identify relative cost of components of cloud infrastructure and participate in cost/benefit discussions
• Experience debugging local and deployed systems using application logs, CloudTrail analysis, and observability tools
• Can describe and document existing architectural patterns in text and diagram formats
• Comfortable pairing with other developers to troubleshoot and knowledge-share, as well as writing documentation
• Familiarity with MySQL and Postgres database administration including indexing and partitioning - can participate in conversations
• Required English Level: Intermediate. Ability to read, write, and communicate

Responsibilities

• On-call support for Production relational databases, cross-region replication, and data security
• Improve database performance monitoring via regularly scheduled health reports
• Triage and delegate query optimization to appropriate developer teams
• Work towards automated remediation of common issues
• Serve as primary infrastructure/networking contact to the Data Platform team
• Proactive maintenance and upgrades for AWS RDS Aurora database clusters
• Use established terragrunt patterns and develop custom modules to support provisioned AWS data resources
• Implement access logging and remediation as part of a larger data governance strategy
• Cost optimization for Campspot data stores including implementing new data retrieval patterns to reduce strain on the main transactional database
• Rewrite reporting queries for performance and reusability
• Support self-service provisioning of sample data for developers and other nonproduction data needs
• Provide thoughtful feedback on team code reviews and actively participate in architectural discussions

Preferred Qualifications

• Cross-account AWS networking experience with Transit Gateway
• AWS Cloud Practitioner certification
• Query optimization experience
• Javascript or Kotlin familiarity for working with legacy reporting application
• Experience with data governance (data classification, RDS IAM access, user access control) and other enterprise-level guard rails

Benefits

• Experience connecting to 3rd party API’s to automate processes - bonus points
• Experience with Snowflake or another data warehouse system - bonus points
• Experience with OpenTelemetry - bonus points
• The hourly rate for this position is starting at $23 USD. Final rate is based on candidate experience and skill level