AWS DevSecOps Engineer

Description

About Our Team

Our core values of People Matter, Integrity, and a Commitment to Excellence drive all that we do. By joining us, you’ll become a part of a fun and diverse team of talented and creative consultants who share the goal of using the latest technology to solve business challenges. We provide our clients with a dynamic mix of services and deliver focused solutions like no one else.

We're seeking talented and bright team players who are passionate about technology and want to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and ego-free culture while applying a creative approach to problem-solving. Team members who like to grow their skill sets while solving challenging, real world business problems thrive.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced AWS DevSecOps Engineer to join our fast-growing IT-project based consulting business. We're looking for a well-rounded team member to design and configure cloud native platforms and services as well as establish, monitor, automate, optimize and maintain DevSecOps components such as the CI/CD pipelines. Our Engineer will help manage and ensure optimal performance one of the major Integration platforms for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Strong working knowledge of both AWS GovCloud Engineering and DevSecOps principles is critical in this role.

The successful candidate will be responsive, have great attention-to-detail skills coupled with ability to design cloud systems with forethought and a talent to quickly analyze and troubleshoot issues and provide prompt resolution. Join our development team and help us positively impact the lives of millions of Veterans through these innovative and user centric Dynamics solutions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain and ensure near 100% uptime for API integration platform for the customer adhering to Service Level Agreement expectations
• Mange API platform providing integration between Salesforce applications and legacy VA systems like VistA
• Design, implement, configure, deploy and monitor AWS cloud services (EC2, Lambda, S3, VPC, Route 53, CloudFormation, ECR, ECS, EKS, etc)
• Deliver cloud native DevSecOps automation through Jenkins, GitLab, Docker, and other CI/CD tools.
• Implement cloud monitoring tools such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail, integrate them into the customer’s DevOps processes, and optimize the cloud solution based on the results of such monitoring
• Develop, implement, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Ansible.
• Assist with cloud security remediation, ensuring alignment with compliance and regulatory standards.
• Use the latest cloud technologies to look for ways to improve and automate processes
• Build a cloud-based technical architecture that meets the needs and takes advantage of cloud capabilities
• Implement AWS services to improve security posture, in alignment with the customer’s DevSecOps processes.
• Document aspects of the AWS environment
• Ensure the high availability, resiliency, performance, business continuity and compliance capabilities of our cloud services
• Lead efforts in automation, builds, deployment, and configuration management

 QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum five (5) years of experience as an AWS DevOps Engineer.
• Minimum Two(2) years experience with AWS monitoring and management tools like Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Config, and AWS Systems Manager for tracking the performance and health of applications and services
• Minimum two (2) years of experience with CI/CD pipeline creation and management using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline
• Minimum one (1) year of experience with IaC tools such as AWS CloudFormation or Terraform
• Experience managing API or integration platforms in AWS.
• Proficiency in key AWS services such as Amazon EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Route 53, Lambda, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and CloudFormation
• Experience building, operating, and maintaining compliant computing environments in AWS.
• Experience with containerization using Kubernetes or AWS ECS and EKS is a plus
• Experience working with cloud security scanning tools and applying remediations
• Candidates will need to obtain Security Clearance of Public Trust once hired.
• AWS Certifications - AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (preferred) and/or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional)

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