Senior DevOps Engineer AWS

We are committed to becoming a true DevOps house and want your help. The role will require close liaison with development and test teams to increase effectiveness of current dev processes. Participation in an out-of-hours emergency support rotationally will be required. You will be shaping the way that we use our DevOps tools and innovating to deliver business value and improve the cadence of the entire dev team.

Skills & technologies –

REQUIRED Skills:

• Good knowledge of Amazon Web Services suite (EC2, ECS, Loadbalancing, VPC, S3, RDS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, IAM etc)
• Hands on knowledge on container orchestration tools – Must have: AWS ECS and Good to have: AWS EKS
• Good knowledge on creating and maintaining the infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Solid experience with CI-CD tools like Jenkins, git and Ansible
• Working experience on supporting Microservices (Deploying, maintaining and monitoring Java web-based production applications using docker container)
• Strong knowledge on debugging production issues across the services and technology stack and application monitoring (we use Splunk & Cloudwatch)
• Experience with software build tools (maven, and node)
• Experience with scripting and automation languages (Bash, groovy, JavaScript, python)
• Experience with Linux administration and CVEs scan - Amz Linux, Ubuntu

Optional skills:

• Oracle/SQL database maintenance experience
• Elastic Search
• Serverless/container based approach
• Automated testing of infrastructure deployments
• Experience of performance testing & JVM tuning
• Experience of a high-volume distributed eCommerce environment
• Experience working closely with Agile development teams
• Familiarity with load testing tools & process
• Experience with nginx, tomcat and apache
• Experience with Cloudflare

Personal attributes

The successful candidate will be comfortable working autonomously and independently. They will be keen to bring an entire team to the next level of delivering business value. A proactive approach to problem-solving technical and process issues is essential.