Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer
By Light
- Alexandria, VA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Experience working with Terraform as it relates to the automation of Amazon Web Services (AWS), and MS Azure cloud deployments.
- Work with technology teams to prototype and prove the viability of solutions.
- Participate in daily operations and maintenance tasks to include patching, troubleshooting, and configuration management.
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure on AWS.
- Architect and implement solutions using AWS services such as EKS, EC2, S3, VPC, Lambda, RDS, and others.
- Design and implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation etc.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and testing using tools like AWS CodePipeline or Jenkins.
- Design and implement backup and disaster recovery solutions to ensure data integrity and business continuity.
- Optimize AWS resources to minimize costs while maximizing performance and scalability.
- Mentor and coach junior engineers, providing guidance on best practices and technical skills.
- Collaborate with development, operations, and other teams to troubleshoot issues and ensure smooth operations.
- Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS. Automate deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications on EKS.
- BS degree in Computer Science or related discipline, MS degree preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 10+ years of overall IT experience
- Experience with successful deployment on at least one major IaaS and/or PaaS service platform (OpenStack, AWS, Heroku, etc.)
- Experience with migration of enterprise database systems such as Oracle, Sybase to IaaS and/or PaaS service platform.
- Proven experience with DevOps practices and technologies in a software-defined infrastructure environment, delivering Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Experience in architecting build and configuration management processes and procedures within both a Hybrid Cloud and Cloud deployment.
- Experience architecting solutions for large programs around cloud architecture to include Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-Service (SaaS) solutions.
- Extensive understanding of and experience with Data Center/Midrange Hosting management products and services
- AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate/Professional preferred
- Preferred a minimum of 5 years hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services
- Nice to have hands-on experience with Cloud Platforms Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform
- Ability to successfully obtain a Public Trust