Job Description: Pay Range: $110hr - $123hr Responsibilities:
- National IT is looking for a Cloud DevOps Engineer with extensive technical breadth of experience with deploying infrastructure as code using Terraform and working directly with customers to accelerate their cloud migration journey.
- In this role, candidate will use candidate technological expertise to integrate highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud solutions that address customer needs while reflecting cloud principles and best practices.
- Candidate will also help our IaC repository for customers to self-serve modules, patterns and solutions that best fit their cloud migration needs.
- Candidate will be a major contributor to innovation and help anchor Proof of Concept activities and guide technological direction for the cloud.
- The primary focus of this role will be to participate as a part of our dynamic and customer-focused team to develop infrastructure as code modules and solutions that best fit customer needs.
- The position will focus on effective use of leading edge technologies creating a foundation for resilient and effective environments.
- Engage with architects, application development teams and technical support teams to achieve success in migrating on-prem applications to AWS by developing infrastructure as code solutions.
- Work with business partners, architects, and other groups to identify technical and functional needs of systems, and determine priority of needs.
- Collaborate with performing teams to deliver new capabilities in business applications and/or remediate issues.
- nalyze, define and document requirements for data, workflow, and logical processes.
- nalyze and translate business, information and technical requirements to create patterns for solutions that integrate across applications, systems and platforms to achieve business objectives.
- ssess foundational services, integration services, cloud operations and management capabilities.
- Champion, communicate and rationalize approaches with business leaders, organization management and within teams to develop structured outcome of proof of fit/proof of concept.
- Establish the direction for application development approaches, including tools, process and frameworks.
- Support preparation of documentation including application designs, Assessments, Security Management, Implementation Plans and post implementation documentation.
- Lead by example, demonstrating high performance in the areas of customer satisfaction, collaboration, teamwork, and reliability.
- Participate in the establishment of local standards, patterns, and practices for cloud integration, while providing input and influence to broader organizational standards and initiatives.
- Spearhead use of innovative new technology and best practices for new product and solution development initiatives.
- Participate in IT strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, business cases, business innovation, and portfolio development.
- Responsible for the planning and engineering of an organization's systems infrastructure.
- Includes the implementation and design of hardware and software.
- Monitors the performance of systems.
- Typically requires a bachelor's degree in area of specialty and 6-8 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
- Familiar with concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field.
- Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- Performs a variety of complicated tasks.
- Works under general supervision.
- Leads and directs the work of others.
- wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
- Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department.
Qualifications:
- WS Certification (Certified Developer or Solutions Architect) 2+ years of experience in Agile.
- 3+ years of experience in deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
- 3+ years of experience in deploying cloud-based solutions.
- 2+ years of experience in deploying hybrid cloud-based solutions.
- Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an Information Technology field, or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
- Minimum eight years of information technology experience directly related to infrastructure engineering (compute, storage, network) of which 2+ years focused on cloud architecture, design, and implementation.
- Excellent oral and written communication, presentation, leadership, interpersonal, collaborative/relationship-building, organizational & planning, and analytical & problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated experience being part of a high velocity DevOps team.
- Practical articulation of IaC - thorough knowledge and practical experience implementing container management concepts and practices using OCP, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Highly proficient in Terraform and Cloud Formation.
- Cloud-native Architecture: Well Architected Framework, 12 Factor App, Cloud Reference Architectures, Cloud Service Models, Microservices architecture, Server less architecture.
- Cloud Security: Shared Security Model, Cloud Security Architecture, IAM policies/roles, WAF, OWASP Web/API, SAML, vulnerabilities and compensating controls (CSP, CSRF, XSS, SQLI) etc.
- Cloud-native Services: Optimization of applications to scalable cloud designs, designing, arch and integration of applications to modern cloud patterns.
- Containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Docker Swarm, Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code.
- Cloud-native monitoring, logging - ELK, Client, Cloud Watch, amongst others.
- Well-versed in Agile software development practices & ability to contribute to sprint ceremonies such as, Refinement, Planning, Review, Retrospectives & knowledge of JIRA software tool.
- Well-versed in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices, automated testing, Automated code quality scanning, and Automated Deployments. ex: Deploy XL , Deploy Release, Subversion, Jenkins.
- Demonstrated experience in mentorship and serving as technical subject matter expert (SME) for a development team.