We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our talented software team working on mission-critical applications using Agile methodologies. This project focuses on modernizing a UI Tax system by re-architecting its components to industry-leading architecture and frameworks. The goal is to provide better service to both internal staff and end-users while positioning the agency for future technological advancements.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership in implementing and operationalizing AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Act as a developer advocate for Cloud capabilities, influencing and collaborating across diverse teams to design and implement user-friendly 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, and more.
- Design, build, and maintain service meshes like Istio in EKS clusters.
- Create unit and integration tests to ensure IaC (Infrastructure as Code) test coverage.
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment of infrastructure and applications.
- Collect telemetry and develop dashboards, alerts, and notifications for accurate insight into cloud operations and application performance.
- Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues to ensure 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.
- Experience in AWS CDK development.
- Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Dynatrace, etc.
- Ability to build quick POCs (Proof of Concepts) to demonstrate cloud capabilities and design user-friendly hybrid cloud environments.