AWS DevOps Engineer - Houston Ref.

AWS DevOps Engineer - Houston - FTE

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be embedded with development teams in a collaborative agile environment that encourages you to perform at your best, and challenges you to engineer elegant solutions. You will be applying your knowledge of CI/CD to scale and grow our existing infrastructure. We're looking for engineers who enjoy being part of a growing, collaborative team, directly influencing the product and development standards, and act in weeks rather than months. Expect talented, motivated, intense and interesting co-workers.

Responsibilities:

Develop a continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline
Continue to evaluate new technologies and update/develop standard practices
Design, lead and build an automated deployment toolset and infrastructure including environments, code management, CI and CD process
Help define and set best practices for code management, build, deploy and release across multiple teams/products in CI /CD model
Work closely with the software development team and other functional groups to develop and provide a robust, flexible and scalable platform
Good communication skills, ability to work collaboratively with the teams
Build, maintain, and scale infrastructure for Production, QA, and Dev environments, Write and maintain infrastructure documentation

Required skills:

10 + Years of IT Experience and 5 + Years as Devops Engineer.
Experience on DevOps tools chain like GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube, blaze meter and Deployment Tools (XL Deploy, Datical, Terraform and chef).
Experience working within containerized environments for micro-services and orchestration tools.
Experience working with Hashicorp toolset like Packer, Vault and Terraform.
Experience on Binary management tools like Artifactory and Nexus.
Hands-on with scripting languages (Groovy, Python and Shell scripting).
Hands-on with build tools line Gradle, Maven and MS Build.
Understanding of configuration management for a CI/CD environment (Jenkins/Terraform).
A philosophical approach to automate away from manual efforts.
Experience implementing AWS dynamic auto-scaling, API Gateway, Lambda, step functions, ECS Fargate, EKS, redshift cluster, RDS flavors, Cloud Front, Data lake use cases Glue, Athena, Kinesis and understanding of IAM policy management in AWS.
Team player with exceptional analytical, enterprise-minded and innovative problem-solving abilities.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills are a must.
Independent self-starter with a strong work ethic and ability to prioritize time and work under pressure to meet deadlines.
Experience with container technologies ECS, ECS Fargate, Azure AKS, EKS /PCF/Docker.
Should have strong knowledge in IAC concepts and experience with Terraform development and should have "automate everything" attitude.
Experience with configuration management tool Chef/Ansible or equivalent.
Experience with Shell/PowerShell scripting in both Linux and Windows environment.
Experience working with enterprise with multicloud strategy that includes WS/Azure/Google cloud.
Strong experience in CI tools Jenkins/Azure Devops or equivalent, Jenkins shared library development is a must.
Must have expertise developing scripts with CHEF on windows and UNIX platform.
Strong ability to do PowerShell scripting to write chef essentials scripting.
Must be able to write chef recipes, install/deploy packages, test and deploy/manage packages.
Experience working with continuous integration creating various sdlc/agile releases is required. Knowledge of Jenkins plugins for continuous deployment process required.
Code management best practices such as branching, merging, and integration strategies.
Design modular pipeline frameworks for CI/CD.
Experience with source code version control systems (GitHub) and methodologies.
Exceptional skill in Management and orchestrating pipelines using Jenkins.
2+ years of administrative proficiency on UNIX systems Linux (CentOS, or other flavor).
Windows server 2012 administration. Deep knowledge of .NET/MSSQL/IIS.
Experience in Release Engineering - Building, maintaining and deploying web/SaaS applications.
Knowledge and expertise with Vagrant desired to bridge the gaps between developments to production processes.
Sound understanding and experience required with Packer for liaising with shared services to create appropriate image environment for various third party customized modeling software.
Knowledge of cloud technologies and Flyway (database deployment tool) required.
Strong collaboration skills with development team, production support and shared services is expected.

If interested please respond with an updated resume.