Sr AWS Devops Engineer

Sr. AWS Devops Engineer || NYC, NY || 12 Months Contract

Should be from Finance/Investment Banking Domain

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, develop, and deploy DevOps flows to support cloud-native applications.
• Work with team leadership and other technologists to create enterprise solutions based on business and technical priorities.
• Actively contribute to the adoption of robust cloud architecture, development and engineering best practices, and the adoption of new cloud technologies.
• Break down complex problems into elegant technical solutions to intelligently solve problems for our clients.
• Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to development teams to build cloud competencies.
• Describe complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.

Required Skills and Experience

• 4-7 years of experience working on cloud infrastructure & automation
• Experience with and knowledge of software development lifecycle and infrastructure-as-code tooling - Terraform.
• Experience with architecting, designing, developing, and deploying cloud-native applications, in particular in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Good working knowledge of various cloud services provided by AWS.
• Good knowledge of Docker and / or other container technologies.
• Experience with GitHub Actions and / or Jenkins or other CI/CD tools.
• Ability to collaborate across multi-discipline teams on architecture, features, and problem-solving.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively, both written and orally, as well as interpersonal skills required to collaborate effectively with customers and colleagues from diverse technical teams.
• Good grasp of software design patterns and effective development methodologies.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Desired Skills

• Ideally, experience with other tools like CloudFormation, CDK, Helm
• Experience with migrating legacy applications to the cloud.
• Experience with and understanding of cloud security concepts and tooling, such as AWS IAM, HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk, etc.
• Experience with cloud data services, such as AWS Aurora, and DynamoDB.
• Good knowledge of at least one programming language (Java, JavaScript, Python, Go), Python preferred.
• Serverless Architectures experience