Senior DevOps Engineer (MD Support)

About the project:

Our customer is the leading school transportation provider in North America being the owner of more than a half of all yellow school buses in the United States. Every day the company completes 5 million student journeys moving more passengers than all U.S. airlines combined and delivers reliable quality services for 1100 school districts.

N-iX has built a successful cooperation with the client delivering a range of complex initiatives. As a result N-iX has been selected as a strategic long-term partner to drive the digital transformation on an enterprise level fully remodeling the technology landscape for 55000 employees and millions of people across North America.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement and maintain monitoring alerting and incident-response processes to ensure stability and quick recovery of production environments.
• Collaborate with the support and dev teams to investigate and resolve infrastructure-related issues providing root-cause analysis and continuous improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Participate in on-call rotations to provide timely support during critical incidents
• Set up AWS accounts and organizational units inside the organization using AWS security best practices
• Set up complex CI/CD pipelines from scratch using AWS native tools
• Set up and manage infrastructure using CloudFormation
• Communicate with stakeholders to ensure proper integration with customers infrastructure

Must-Have Skills:

• Proven work experience as a DevOps Engineer with a minimum of 5 years.
• Design implement and manage cloud-based multi-account infrastructure on AWS
• Experience implementing AWS security best practices
• Develop and maintain AWS ECS clusters ensuring scalability high availability and optimal performance
• Solid expertise with AWS services such as: VPC ECS RDS/Aurora ALB CloudFront API Gateway Cognito IAM SecretsManager
• Provision and manage infrastructure using CloudFormation
• Set up CI/CD process using AWS native tools (Сode commit deploy pipeline build)
• Experience using Datadog or New Relic services
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with meticulous attention to detail.
• Effective communication and collaboration abilities with the capacity to work effectively in a team environment.
• Upper-Intermediate or Advanced English level

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with AWS DMS and AWS MSK
• Experience working with multi-cloud environments
• Experience working with (or implementing) highly available cross-region applications and respective DR mechanisms