Senior Devops Engineer / AWS

Senior Devops Engineer / AWS

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Job Description
We are currently working with a client that publishes educational and psychological assessments online. They've been in the industry for over 70 years and have built a global reputation of being assessment experts in the areas of autism, speech and language, school, and occupational therapy. They publish these assessments and articles online that in turn allow helping professionals to accurately screen, diagnose, and treat people in need. They're looking to add a Senior DevOps engineer to their team who'd be responsible for AWS infrastructure and services, configuration management, CI/CD, and containers with Docker and Kubernetes. The ideal candidate will be well versed in AWS services (Autoscaling, Lambda, ECS, S3, SNS, SQS, IAM, Cloudformation, etc.), Terraform, CI/CD with Jenkins or Github, and knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
Required Skills & Experience

• Knowledge about Database/NoSQL DB hosting fundamentals (RDS multi-AZ, DynamoDB, MongoDB and such)
• Knowledge on different storage platforms on AWS (EBS, EFS, FSx) - mounting persistent volumes with Docker Containers
• In-depth knowledge on Security principles on AWS (WAF, DDoS, Security Groups, NACL's, IAM groups and SSO)
• Knowledge on CI/CD platforms is required (Jenkins, GitHub actions, etc.) - Migration of AWS Code pipelines to GitHub actions
• Knowledge on vast variety on AWS services (SNS, SES, SQS, Athena, Kinesis, S3, ECS, EKS etc.) is required
• Experience on Infrastructure as Code tool is required, CloudFormation and Terraform
• Setting CloudWatch Alarms and SMS/Email Slack alerts.
• Some Knowledge on configuring any kind of monitoring tool such as Prometheus, Dynatrace etc. (We currently use Datadog, CloudWatch)
• Experience with any CDN provider configurations (Cloudflare, Fastly or CloudFront)
• Experience with either Python or Go scripting language.
• Experience with Git branching strategy
• Containers hosting Experience on both Windows and Linux (Docker, Kubernetes)

Desired Skills & Experience

• Integration experience with Code Quality tools (SonarQube, NetSparker) with CI/CD
• CDN's other than CloudFront (Cloudflare, Fastly)
• Collaboration with multiple teams
• GitOps

The Offer

• Competitive Salary: Up to $160-170K/year, DOE + Bonus

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance & Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401(k)
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.