Devops Engineer/AWS Cloud Devops Architect

Texas, Irving, 75063

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Job Description:

Support service team as a ‘build’ member
Drive reliability concepts into cloud service teams to keep critical systems operating effectively
Write code and build systems to improve performance and operational efficiency of services
Assist operations in addressing issues and solving problems

Key Responsibilities

Work with Service Development and Service Quality teams to ensure service reliability requirements meet service objectives
Author scripts and templates for setup, configuration and monitoring of critical components of service
Develop, update, and maintain testing standards and procedures
Interfere and troubleshoot any part of supported services when needed
Investigate and solve live performance and stability issues in production
Provide dedicated support to individual Service Delivery Engineers and Operations
Validate scalability testing results, and test limits of hardware and software
Oversee all planned outages, and assist with major upgrades to ensure minimum downtime
Assist with major upgrades to ensure minimum downtime
Educate peers about best standards, processes and technologies
Serve as the SME for selecting technology candidates and self-healing capabilities for future service development
Perform large scale automation, combining independent processes into robust behavior
Participate in follow-the-sun, on-call rotation with team members

Qualifications

5+ years of experience building complex distributed systems
2+ years of experience in managing public cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, P or Azure)
3+ years of experience with running and/or managing large infrastructure services with multiple availability regions
Public Cloud (AWS, P, Azure) Certifications – Professional level preferred
Detail oriented: able to document and follow detailed instructions within test scripts as well as defects tracking documents (i.e., steps to recreate the problem)
Experience with cloud monitoring tools
Exceptional communication and troubleshooting skills
Fluency in Linux environments (Redhat)
Scripting and programming skills (Python, Java, JavaScript)
Ability to develop custom tool integrations
Ability to write consistent and published APIs
Experience building, integrating, deploying and provisioning cloud services
Experience with configuration management systems (Chef, Ansible)
Experience with modern tools such as Atlassian (Jira, Confluence)
Expertise in multiple version control systems (Git, GitHub, BitBucket)
Specific experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Experience with performance testing and analysis tools (AppDynamics, Splunk) (plus)
Understanding of testing concepts and how testing fits in with the overall project life cycle