Job Title: AWSDevops Automation Engineer
Location: Lakewood, CO (suburb of Denver)
Position Type: long term contract (W2)
Industry Focus: Financial technology
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Specific Skills: DevOps automation
Expeience with AWS Cloud services like RDS, EC2, S3, EKS, IAM.
Ability to automate service provisioning viaTerraform.
Familiarity with GitOps pipelines for deploying AWS infrastructure with version control.
Knowledge of general cloud and application security
concepts like encryption (at rest and in transit) and the use of certificates and secrets within an application.
Ideal candidates will have experience with
EKS and deploying containers via Helm and/or via Operators/CRDs.
Ideal candidates will also be familiar with service mesh concepts like Istio and have
some experience with deploying and maintaining them.
Previous experience with solutions for scalable Certificate Management (creation, rotation, etc.) in
SaaS solutions is highly desirable.
Core Skills:
Core Technical Skills that are important across roles
Experience with Automation
Git
Gitlab / GitOps
AWS and services
Terraform
Cloud Security
Cloud Networking
Cloud Monitoring Tools
Containers
Kubernetes
Core Professional Skills that are important across roles -
Ability to work collaboratively on teams
Ability to communicate thoughts, concerns, and ideas professionally
Ability to be flexible to changing priorities
Willingness to work with stakeholders to help clarify requirements and to positively influence technical direction through technical designs