DevOps Engineer II - Remote schedule

The DevOps Engineer works closely with product development teams and IT operations to accelerate software delivery and improve system reliability. This role focuses on automating infrastructure, managing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring the stability and performance of applications running in AWS. The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on experience with AWS services and understands how to leverage them to best support business-critical applications.This role supports the organization’s DevOps strategy by enabling high-quality, reliable software deployments and maintaining the overall health, availability, security, and performance of key systems. The DevOps Engineer will have real-world experience automating and streamlining operational processes, building and maintaining deployment, monitoring, and operational tooling, and troubleshooting issues across development, testing, and production environments.In addition, the DevOps Engineer II partners closely with Corporate IT and Security teams to ensure systems are designed and operated in compliance with PCI security standards.ResponsibilitiesAutomate the deployment of environments using IAC tooling such as TerraformImplement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to deploy services to Partner with Network, Security, Development, and QA teams to determine how best to migrate business systems.Work with development to design and implement improved deployment, provisioning, and integration pipelines; ensure environments are in good working order and identify areas and plans for improvementDevelop monitoring for business systems to track performance, resource utilization, and consumption using tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail or Elasticsearch.Build reusable AMI’s for scripted deployments of infrastructure in AWS across multiple regions.Work with existing DevOps to develop needed log retention for AWS instance business applications for retrieval per audit policy and PCI compliance. Infrastructure Management Maintain and administer servers, storage, virtualization platforms, and endpoint management tools. Cloud Infrastructure ManagementDeploy and manage cloud infrastructure on platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.Monitor and optimize cloud resources for performance, availability, and cost-efficiency. Containerization & Orchestration Build and manage containerized applications using Docker.Deploy and maintain Kubernetes clusters or other orchestration platforms Security & Compliance Implement and maintain security best practices across infrastructure and pipelines.Ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations. Monitoring & Incident Response Set up and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).Respond to incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures. Collaboration & Support Work closely with development, QA, and IT teams to support application deployment and infrastructure needs.Provide technical guidance and support for DevOps tools and practices.Experience with microservices architecture and service mesh technologies.Familiarity with serverless computing and event-driven architectures.Certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, or Google Professional DevOps Engineer.QualificationsTechnical knowledge and experience across various IT areas, including infrastructure, automation development, and operations.Troubleshoot and configure core AWS Platforms such as ECS Fargate, Lambda, S3, Route 53, RDS, etc.Administer software-defined networking in AWS, proficient in managing NACL’s and AWS Security Groups.Ability to automate processes/code in Python, or another modern scripting languageLinux core fundamentals and command-line operations.Configuration management and automation/deployment solutions tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, GitLab, Terraform, SaltStack, Octopus, Jenkins, Git, Nagios, etc.Good understanding of Docker containerizationWorking knowledge of Web API, RESTful Services, and WCF Services.Central authentication platforms, such as Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos/IDMAdvanced troubleshooting of IP routing, VPN access methods, and DNSWindows Server knowledge beneficialExcellent communication skills, ability to convey and document network-related dependenciesRespond to inquiries from colleagues and service providers to provide technical assistance and support network-related functions and availability.Participates in after-hours’ support when requiredRequirementsAt least 8 years demonstrated success in related IT profession, including substantial experience in DevOpsOne or more of the following AWS specific Certifications a plus.AWS Certified Solutions Architect AssociateAWS Certified SysOps Administrator AssociateAWS Certified DevOps Engineer ProfessionalAWS Certified Solutions Architect ProfessionalApplicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time