Sr. Cloud DevOps Engineer

Our client is looking for a Principal level Sr. Cloud DevOps Engineer to lead a "managed service" Pod-based engagement (that was a mouthful). 👊

Responsibilities:

• Manage AWS cloud computing environment, including compute, data, security, and other features.
• Recommend and provision infrastructure, as well as troubleshooting and issue resolution.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers to improve automation of workflows, infrastructure, code testing and deployment.
• Develop and maintain solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring.
• Ensure the client's systems are highly available and resilient.
• Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards and make recommendations for improvement.

Requirements:

• Background in multiple disciplines including cloud infrastructure, system administration, security, site reliability engineering, and software engineering.
• 5+ years of professional experience as a DevOps/System Engineer.
• 5+ years of experience working within AWS and with its managed products (EC2, ECS, ECR, R53, RDS, etc.)
• 7+ years of progressive experience in definition and implementation of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence solutions supporting e-commerce, direct-to-consumer marketing, or consumer data analytics teams. This experience will include the design and development of reliable, highly scalable, flexible, and high-performing data warehousing solutions.
• Experience with Serverless strategies and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with production infrastructure, including deployment, logging, monitoring, and similar
• Fluent in Python, and scripting languages (Shell scripting).
• Proficiency with DevOps, configuration management, and/or orchestration tooling (GitLab, CI/CD, Airflow)
• Experience working with complex and large volumes of data and the impacts on infrastructure
• Admin experience with Snowflake.
• Experience with Terraform.
• Admin experience with Informatica PowerCenter or Developer.
• Experience with Datadog or other similar cloud monitoring software (New Relic, Nagios, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Experience working with Airflow, and NIFI technologies - preferred

Nice-to-Haves:

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
• Informatica Professional Certification
• Jenkins experience
• Experience with KPIs and dashboards
• Understanding of data science concepts
• Experience with non-relational, NoSQL, and semi-structured databases
• Experience with Django, Nginx, ReactJS or related technologies
• Experience with AWS Lambda
• Experience with Networking Concepts and technologies
• Experience with creating Application and/or Network Architecture Diagrams
• Insatiably curious about emerging technologies and tools

This is a contract role. And, remote, too! 🏖️😎