DevOps Engineer

Core Role Responsibilities:

Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing AWS cloud based production system,
to ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of productions systems.

Build, release and configuration management of production systems.

Pre-production Acceptance Testing to help assure the quality of our products / services.

System troubleshooting and problem solving across platform and application domains.

Suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements.

Evaluate new technology options and vendor products.

Ensuring critical system security through the use of best in class cloud security solutions.

Perform customer requests for data operations (merge, delete, restore, …).

Required Skills and Experience:

AWS: 2+ years’ experience with using a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g. EC2,
RDS, ELB, EBD, S3, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS) to develop and maintain an
Amazon AWS based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.

DevOps: Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime Amazon AWS
environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.

Scripting Skills: Strong scripting (e.g. Python) and automation skills.

Operating Systems: Linux system administration.

Monitoring Tools: Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g. Datadog, Loggly, ...).

Problem Solving: Ability to analyze and resolve complex infrastructure resource and
application deployment issues.

Desired Skills (Not essential but beneficial to have):

DB Skills: Basic DB administration experience (MongoDb).

Agile Methodologies: Experience with Agile software development, project management methodologies.

Version Control: Experience administrating version control systems such as Git.

Networking: Understanding network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).

Educational Requirements:

B.Sc. in Computer Science or other equivalent technical discipline.

Other Candidate Requirements:

Professional commitment to high quality, and a passion for learning new skills.

Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn new concepts and technologies.

Strong problem-solving skills, including providing simple solutions to complex situations.

Must be a strong team player with the ability to communicate.