Devops Engineer

DevOps Engineer
Location: Local is ok - Prefer Dallas, TX

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent backgroundxperience

• Experience working with cloud-based platforms in an enterprise environment.

• 1-3 years software engineering experience in a team-based environment

• Experience performing Relational Database Services (RDS)

• Experience with programming tools, computer interfaces, and application architectures

• Experience designing, deploying and monitoring infrastructure in public clouds (AWS, Azure) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

• Experience deploying, managing, operating and monitoring applications in scalable, highly available and fault tolerant data centers (both on-premises and hosted)

• Experience learning, sharing, and implementing best practices with the ability to establish operational processes, implement.

• DevOps, deployment checklists

• Experience with multiple programming languages (Python, PowerShell, Bash)

• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery build tools (GitLab, Jenkins, Flyway, MuleSoft, etc.)

• Experience with source code management tools

• Experience with Application Release Automation tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.)

• Experience with Application Performance Monitoring tools (Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic, etc.)

• Knowledge of scripting languages

• Knowledge of developing solutions in an iterative (Agile) approach

• Knowledge of basic networking concepts

• Knowledge of system configuration tools and implementation of architectural frameworks (Service Oriented Architecture, Domain-Driven Design)

• Knowledge of container orchestration solution

• Cloud Certified DevOps Engineer (i.e., AWS, Azure, other)

• Strong to highly proficient written, verbal, and presentation skills to effectively communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences adjusting style to fit the target audience including multiple levels of management preferred

• Equivalent education and/or experience may be substituted for any of the above requirements.

• Experience with Relational Database Services (RDS) (preferably with a DBA background)

• Demonstrated ability to lead projects and blended teams of various sizes.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex ideas, anticipate potential objections and persuade others, often at senior levels, to adopt a different point of view.

• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and practically apply new concepts or principles and work towards positive results in complex situations with little or no supervision.

• Demonstrated capability to troubleshoot and repair/fix issues affecting the landing zone and application infrastructure.

• Experience with low code/no code platforms

• Certifications preferred:
o HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
o AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
o AWS Solution Architect Certification (Associate or higher)
o AWS Certified Sysops Administrator - Associate Certification

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with software engineering, operations and information security teams to automate and support infrastructure and tooling in cloud-based platforms.

• Leverage infrastructure-as-code (IaC) to architect and provision all workload resources and components using cloud-agnostic and/or cloud-native tooling.

• Perform Relational Database Services (RDS) in AWS

• Set up, operate and scale relational databases in cloud environments.

• Apply automated deployment tool sets and infrastructure including environments and code management using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes.

• Build solutions based on security, monitoring, logging, and alerting requirements. Integrate on premise solutions with Cloud resources.

• Develop testing use cases and detailed testing plans that map to the documented business and technical requirements, complies with Federal Reserve security specifications and policies and industry standard / accepted testing practices.

• Continuous monitoring of application performance and detecting conditions affecting the health of IT cloud services in various cloud platforms

• Perform and/or support response activities for operational and security incidents.

• Drive the implementation and rollout of application reliability, including disaster recovery.

• Provide guidance and apply agile and DevOps/DevSecOps practices to streamline product delivery and reliable operations of products.

• Continuously identify opportunities to automate and save time.