DevOps Engineer II - Remote schedule

The DevOps Engineer works closely with product development teams and IT operations to accelerate software delivery and improve system reliability. This role focuses on automating infrastructure, managing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring the stability and performance of applications running in AWS. The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on experience with AWS services and understands how to leverage them to best support business-critical applications.

This role supports the organization's DevOps strategy by enabling high-quality, reliable software deployments and maintaining the overall health, availability, security, and performance of key systems. The DevOps Engineer will have real-world experience automating and streamlining operational processes, building and maintaining deployment, monitoring, and operational tooling, and troubleshooting issues across development, testing, and production environments.

In addition, the DevOps Engineer II partners closely with Corporate IT and Security teams to ensure systems are designed and operated in compliance with PCI security standards.

Automate the deployment of environments using IAC tooling such as Terraform
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to deploy services to Partner with Network, Security, Development, and QA teams to determine how best to migrate business systems.
• Work with development to design and implement improved deployment, provisioning, and integration pipelines; ensure environments are in good working order and identify areas and plans for improvement
• Develop monitoring for business systems to track performance, resource utilization, and consumption using tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail or Elasticsearch.
• Build reusable AMI's for scripted deployments of infrastructure in AWS across multiple regions.
• Work with existing DevOps to develop needed log retention for AWS instance business applications for retrieval per audit policy and PCI compliance.

Infrastructure Management

• Maintain and administer servers, storage, virtualization platforms, and endpoint management tools. Cloud Infrastructure Management
• Deploy and manage cloud infrastructure on platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Monitor and optimize cloud resources for performance, availability, and cost-efficiency.

Containerization & Orchestration

• Build and manage containerized applications using Docker.
• Deploy and maintain Kubernetes clusters or other orchestration platforms

Security & Compliance

• Implement and maintain security best practices across infrastructure and pipelines.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations.

Monitoring & Incident Response

• Set up and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).
• Respond to incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.

Collaboration & Support

• Work closely with development, QA, and IT teams to support application deployment and infrastructure needs.
• Provide technical guidance and support for DevOps tools and practices.
• Experience with microservices architecture and service mesh technologies.
• Familiarity with serverless computing and event-driven architectures.
• Certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, or Google Professional DevOps Engineer.

• Technical knowledge and experience across various IT areas, including infrastructure, automation development, and operations.
• Troubleshoot and configure core AWS Platforms such as ECS Fargate, Lambda, S3, Route 53, RDS, etc.
• Administer software-defined networking in AWS, proficient in managing NACL's and AWS Security Groups.
• Ability to automate processes/code in Python, or another modern scripting language
• Linux core fundamentals and command-line operations.
• Configuration management and automation/deployment solutions tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, GitLab, Terraform, SaltStack, Octopus, Jenkins, Git, Nagios, etc.
• Good understanding of Docker containerization
• Working knowledge of Web API, RESTful Services, and WCF Services.
• Central authentication platforms, such as Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos/IDM
• Advanced troubleshooting of IP routing, VPN access methods, and DNS
• Windows Server knowledge beneficial
• Excellent communication skills, ability to convey and document network-related dependencies
• Respond to inquiries from colleagues and service providers to provide technical assistance and support network-related functions and availability.
• Participates in after-hours' support when required

Requirements:

• At least 8 years demonstrated success in related IT profession, including substantial experience in DevOps
• One or more of the following AWS specific Certifications a plus.
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Frequent use of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and related office equipment.
• Occasional reaching, bending, or lifting of office supplies or equipment (typically under 25 pounds).
• Regular visual attention and concentration when working with digital screens.
• Ability to occasionally move throughout the office to attend meetings or retrieve equipment.
• May occasionally need to set up, connect, or troubleshoot IT hardware which could involve crouching or kneeling.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Regular visual attention and concentration when working with digital screens.
• Ability to occasionally move throughout the office to attend meetings or retrieve equipment.
• May occasionally need to set up, connect, or troubleshoot IT hardware which could involve crouching or kneeling.