AWS DevOps Engineer POST NUMBER: 424230
Position Responsibilities
- Support the strategic direction and the design of technology, infrastructure, software, and communications and networking systems, including the implementation and integration of external and internal business processing systems and applications
- Hands on experience troubleshooting and maintaining EKS. We don’t need a person who wants to focus on architecting solutions although there will be some involvement in these activities within the team.
- Experienced with AWS API Gateway. Troubleshooting and creating new endpoints. Experience with WAF is a plus!
- Provide on-call support after-hours, weekend, and outside of general working hours for the Digital Bank operations; emphasis on MKS and EKS
- Deploy, manage, and operate an AWS multi-account environment
- Work alongside Systems and Development teams to support the transition and operation of applications in and out of AWS
- Identify appropriate use of AWS operational best practices
- Estimate AWS costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms
- Proactively keep management up to date on AWS services and developments
- Create (where appropriate) automation to streamline provisioning and de-provisioning processes
- Be a technical resource on data/service migration projects
- Assist contract and in-house staff on AWS administrative tasks
- Configuration of the AWS cloud management; configure and fine-tune the cloud infrastructure systems; monitoring and managing cloud services carefully
- Understand AWS metrics and monitoring resources
- Assist in the creation and maintenance of high-quality documentation (primarily Visio diagrams) for relevant specifications, systems, policies, procedures, and plans as they pertain to IT
- Integrate and work with third-party hardware, software, and service vendor relationships
- Promote cybersecurity awareness, assist in training, testing, and the use of best practices
- Ability to turn work around quickly and accurately. Someone who is self-motivated, eager to learn and figure out issues.
- 5 years of Systems Administration experience with AWS required
- Expertise managing security within an AWS master payer account environment and for Linux systems required. This includes implementing security groups and network ACLs, configuring Linux server security, and experience with AWS security services like AWS Shield, Detective, Security Hub, WAF, and especially IAM
- Expertise building, deploying, and maintaining AWS microservices (MKS/Kafka) applications on Kubernetes using EKS
- Experience in configuring, managing, and monitoring AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall), including AWS-managed and custom rules
- High comfort level running command-line operations preferred
- Experience building scripts, tooling, and automation for large-scale computing environments
- Experience developing and maintaining network and systems diagrams and documentation
- Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
- Highly organized and efficient, able to work with all levels of staff in all bank areas
- Detail-oriented, a team player with excellent time management skills
- Must be able to adjust quickly to changing priorities and conditions
- Proven ability to meet deadlines while thoroughly completing projects and assignments.
- Experience with Database administration (SQL, MariaDB/MySQL, Amazon RDS, Aurora) is a plus
- Experience deploying and maintaining AWS multi-account infrastructure (AWS Config, AWS CloudFormation StackSets)
- Knowledge of monitoring and auditing systems in AWS (CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Cost Explorer, Systems Manager)
- Familiar with AWS networking services (VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Route Tables, Subnets, Security Groups, Load Balancers)
- Experience deploying and maintaining Infrastructure as Code with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) using YAML, JSON, CloudFormation, and CDK. Comparable experience with Terraform is also considered
- Experience in developing, deploying, and managing AWS Lambda functions
- 3 years of system administration for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux/CentOS) required
- Comfortable troubleshooting and writing Bash scripts or Python
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent, relevant experience required
Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
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