Principal DevOps Engineer (AWS)

Summary

Join our team as a Principal AWS Cloud Engineer, leading and managing a team of cloud engineers and DevOps to deliver complex cloud solutions. This role involves coordinating with stakeholders to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain cloud-based applications and infrastructure.

Requirements

• Demonstrates a can-do attitude, flexibility, and a willingness to learn and grow in new areas
• Problem solver; experiments with new approaches and techniques to improve work processes
• Team player with strong communication skills
• AWS Cloud Computing Solutions (Required)
• Terraform and other laC tools
• Experience with Jenkins Pipeline Scripting
• Docker, Apache, TomCat, Wordpress, and Testlink
• Networking, IDS/IPS, and SAN
• Server computing (Linux and Windows administration)
• Virtualization (HyperV, VirtualBox, and VMWare)
• Encryption
• VPN (SonicWall/OpenVPN)
• ITIL Standards
• DB Administration (MySQL)
• Command line scripting: BASH PowerShell, DOS Batch, etc
• Source code management: GIT and GIT services like Bitbucket

Responsibilities

• Leading and managing a team of AWS cloud engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment to deliver complex cloud solutions
• Coordinating with scrum masters, project managers, and other engineers to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain cloud-based applications and infrastructure
• Providing technical leadership in all aspects of AWS cloud architecture and solutions, ensuring best practices and efficient use of AWS services
• Overseeing the design, development, and implementation of new cloud systems and enhancements to existing systems, ensuring scalability, security, and cost-efficiency
• Ensuring all cloud engineering projects are delivered on time and meet the agreed-upon quality standards and performance metrics
• Continually updating technical knowledge and skills, particularly in AWS services and cloud technologies, and sharing them with the team
• Maintaining high standards of cloud solution quality within the team by establishing and promoting good practices and habits
• Providing regular performance feedback, coaching, and career development opportunities to team members, fostering their growth and professional development
• Facilitating root cause analysis of cloud system issues, implementing resolution strategies, and ensuring proactive measures are taken to prevent future occurrences
• Developing and maintaining detailed and comprehensive documentation and diagrams
• Being knowledgeable in the release process and overall architecture of our systems, ensuring smooth deployment and integration of new features and updates
• Performing system maintenance procedures even during non-business hours and over the weekends
• Participating in an on-call coverage for support of systems outside of normal business hours
• Ensuring high availability of internal and production systems
• Ensuring that company and business unit standard server technologies (Linux and Windows), proper performance, optimization, and capacity standards are implemented