AWS DevOps Engineer

****MUST CURRENTLY RESIDE IN THE BALTIMORE MD AREA****

****THIS IS A FULL-TIME POSITION AND NOT OPEN TO CONTRACTORS****

****REQUIRED IN OFFICE TWO DAYS A WEEK****

Our client is looking for a sharp driven DevOps Engineer to help build optimize and secure the infrastructure.

This isnt a maintenance role. This is a foundational build opportunity where youll help to shape CI/CD pipelines scale AWS infrastructure drive automation and leave your fingerprints on a platform.

Heres what makes this role different:

• Youll join an established DevOps team and bring real influence to how we build scale and operate your expertise will shape decisions not just execute them
• Youll work across AWS CI/CD security and observability genuine full-spectrum DevOps work
• Youll partner closely with development architecture and QA teams in a flat collaborative environment where your voice carries weight
• Youll help drive SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 compliance meaningful high-stakes work that matters
• Youll join a company that has thrived for 25 years with the agility and mission-focus most organizations lose along the way

If youre a DevOps engineer whos energized by building things right moving fast without breaking things and doing work that genuinely matters keep reading.

As the DevOps Engineer you work with the infrastructure software development and data engineering teams. The primary focus of the DevOps Engineer will be to help the team build maintain and operate infrastructure to support our SaaS business. Further you will also help to lay the foundation for creating processes and automation that will speed up product testing and deployment going forward.

Job Mission

To design implement and optimize DevOps infrastructure and processes that enable faster product testing deployment and operational scalability ensuring the reliable delivery of the platform to their customers through efficient scalable and cost-effective methodologies.

What you will do Most important responsibilities of this role

• Manage and Optimize CI/CD Pipelines - Build maintain and expand continuous integration and deployment pipelines to accelerate and improve product testing development and deployment.
• Monitor performance Proactively build out monitoring and alerting to measure and analyze system performance assist engineering teams in trouble shooting and discover opportunities for improvement.
• Administer and Scale AWS Infrastructure - Maintain the existing AWS environment provide expertise on multi-environment AWS infrastructure and evaluate cloud services to ensure scalability security and cost efficiency.
• Automate and Streamline Processes - Design and implement automated processes and testing workflows system monitoring solutions and developmental workflows striving for continuous improvement in efficiency and performance.
• Manage 3rd Party DevOps Tools Administer and maintain a suite of third-party DevOps tools including performance reporting vulnerability scanning and SIEM systems ensuring reliable integrations proper access controls and up-to-date configurations and documentation.
• Champion Security and Compliance Ensure infrastructure and systems align with SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001:2022 requirements by maintaining audit logging access controls and data encryption standards while supporting annual compliance assessments and audits.

How you will do it The ideal hire will

• Infrastructure Management: Administer AWS environments ensuring multi-environment configurations align with best practices and supporting performance testing and improvement initiatives.
• Automation and CI/CD: Create and optimize CI/CD pipelines to streamline testing and deployment implement automated processes and reduce manual intervention wherever possible.
• Monitoring and Resilience: Maintain monitoring and reporting solutions conduct application resiliency testing alongside QA and proactively resolve incidents with root cause analysis.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with developers architecture QA and project management teams to break tasks into actionable units support releases and foster seamless integration across project functions.

Essential Functions:

As the DevOps Engineer you must be:

• Familiar with all the technical aspects of integrated operations.
• Knowledgeable of the various automation tools and methods which may be required for process-automation and automated testing.

As the DevOps Engineer you will

• Work to create maintain and expand upon CI/CD pipelines in order to increase the speed of product testing and deployment.
• Strive for continuous improvement and build out continuous integration continuous development and continuous deployment pipelines (CI/CD).
• Design and implement development test release update and support processes for DevOps operations.
• Encourage and implement automated processes wherever possible.
• Maintain and administer the existing AWS environment.
• Provide expertise on best practices for creating and maintaining multi-environment AWS infrastructure (AWS Organization).
• Proactively evaluate the newest AWS and cloud infrastructure services weighing benefits against associated costs to recommend opportunities for cost efficiency resiliency and performance improvements.
• Lead efforts in implementing maintaining and continuously improving consolidated system monitoring and reporting solutions.
• Partner with QA to conduct application resiliency testing gauge readiness for software releases and support performance testing and improvement initiatives.
• Manage incident response and perform root cause analysis to resolve issues and prevent recurrence.
• Support initiatives for security and compliance in alignment with SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001:2022 requirements.
• Document and communicate proposed solutions including technical requirements resource needs and timelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers architecture QA and other departments during the release process to ensure smooth coordinated deployments.
• Work with project management to break larger projects into smaller actionable tasks with well-defined estimates.

Required Education and Experience

• 4 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer specifically using AWS
• Experience working in a secure environment
• Bachelors degree in computer science or similar technical discipline
• Experience deploying developer code to AWS
• Experience with AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) or equivalent tool (i.e. Terraform)
• Familiarity with integrated DevOps operations and the technical aspects of managing end-to-end pipelines and infrastructure
• Knowledge of automation tools and methods for process automation and automated testing
• Solid understanding of automation and implementing automation processes
• In-depth networking experience with a focus on security
• Familiarity with source control (Bitbucket GitLab etc.) and Pipelines
• Experience with relational database technologies Ideally MySQL Aurora RDS
• Working knowledge of traditional client/server architecture
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems to diagnose the root cause and help with a solution for the underlying issue
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work independently with little assistance
• Ability to be collaborative and work with teammates to implement comprehensive tooling to create and maintain dev/product/local environments

Job Specific Competencies:

• Complex Problem Solver
• Technical / Analytical
• Excellent Communicator
• Highly Driven & Self Motivated
• Sense of Urgency
• Team Oriented
• Adaptable
• Detail Orientation

Systems Tools

• Dataiku
• Snowflake
• AWS
• Atlassian: Jira and Confluence
• Familiarity with machine learning frameworks (like Keras or PyTorch) and libraries (like scikit-learn)
• Familiarity with Mathematical Optimization
• Bitbucket and CICD
• Sigma
• Boomi
• dbt Cloud
• Hightouch
• HubSpot
• Bitbucket and CICD

Languages:

• Python (optional: Jinja templating)
• SQL
• Optional: Rust Java C R SAS Stata Matlab JMP

Required Experience:

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