Devops Engineer

Iowa City, Iowa

Emonics LLC
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Must have strong AWS experience

Short Description: Department of Management - Division of IT is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our talented software team working on mission-critical applications using Agile methodologies

Complete Description:

Department of Management - Division of IT is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our talented software team working on mission-critical applications using Agile methodologies. The project aims to modernize IWD's UI Tax system by re-architecting its components to industry-leading architecture and frameworks, providing better service to both agency staff and end-users while positioning the agency for future technological improvements.

Responsibilities:
  • Provide technical leadership in implementing and operationalizing AWS cloud infrastructure.
  • Act as a developer advocate for Cloud capabilities, influencing and working across diverse teams to design and implement easy-to-use hybrid cloud environments.
  • Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable and reliable AWS infrastructure using AWS CDK.
  • Manage and configure AWS services such as EC2, EKS, ECR, Cognito, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.
  • Design, build and maintain service mesh like Istio in EKS cluster.
  • Create unit and integration tests for IaC test coverage.
  • Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment of infrastructure and applications.
  • Collect telemetry and build dashboards, alerts and notifications for accurate insight into the cloud operations and application performance.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues, ensuring high availability and optimal performance of infrastructure and services.
  • Collaborate with software engineers to optimize application performance and reliability in AWS environments.
  • Implement and maintain security best practices and compliance controls in AWS.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, etc.
  • AWS CDK development experience.
  • Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Dynatrace etc.
  • Ability to build quick POCs to demonstrate cloud capabilities and design easy-to-use hybrid cloud environments.
Date Posted: 29 April 2025
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