Lead DevOps
Description
The desired candidate is someone who can work as part of a larger team to deliver a product and services to customers and partners. The candidate would also own the engineering incident management practice, working with other team members and Apptega Customer Support to manage incident response should production issues arise.
Requirements:
- Experience designing and implementing scalable architectures on AWS
- Strong background/knowledge of AWS infrastructure and service offerings
- Strong background in using Terraform for deployment to AWS, including the use of modules, variables, and state management
- Strong understanding of satisfying security and compliance issues within AWS
- Experience in using autoscaling in AWS
- Experience with serverless infrastructure in AWS
- Familiarity with using GitHub actions to drive deployments in AWS
- Understanding of using git version control
- Understanding of relational databases (AWS RDS/MySQL)
- Able to self-direct, requiring minimal oversight
Familiarity with setup/configuration of the following AWS services:
- AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
- AWS Application and Network Load Balancer (ALB & NLB)
- AWS Auto Scaling Groups (ASG)
- AWS CloudFront
- AWS CodePipeline
- AWS DocumentDB
- AWS ElastiCache
- AWS Lambda
- AWS RDS Aurora
- AWS Redshift
- AWS S3
- AWS Secrets Manager
Characteristics:
- Familiar with fast-paced/agile development environments
- Understands working as a team with minimal-to-no hierarchy
- Able to react professionally when handling service outages or other incidents
- Strong communication skills, able to work across multiple teams and organization as a whole
Nice to haves:
- Experience with using Datadog (or other service) for monitoring and observability
- Experience managing and deploying applications based on Node.js and PHP stacks