DevOps Engineer, Alight

DevOps Engineer, Alight

Company Alight
Job title DevOps Engineer – Virtual
Job location Virtual, Illinois, United States of America
Type Full Time

Responsibilities:

  • Leverage AWS design principles, data access patterns, and relevant AWS services to enhance the efficiency and performance of the data applications.
  • Monitor AWS resources to ensure availability and scalability.
  • Troubleshoot cloud-related infrastructure incidents and issues.
  • Perform deployments and upgrades in AWS.
  • Improve cloud product reliability, availability, maintainability, and cost/benefit-including developing fault-tolerant tools to ensure general robustness of cloud infrastructure.
  • Perform operations such as backup and restore.
  • Assist in ensuring security best practices for the cloud are followed and customer data is secured.
  • Stay up to date with cloud technology trends and best practices.
  • Creating and maintaining technical documents for cloud infrastructure and related processes
  • Have an advanced understanding of core networking and security standards and best practices.
  • Maintain regular communication with users regarding best practices, policies, procedures, and scheduled maintenance.
  • Documents and maintains work instructions, and completes audit-required tasks.

Requirements & Skills:

  • 5 years of experience working with AWS services EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, SQS, Lambda, RDS, Athena, AWS Glue, Lakeformation, SNS, Load Balancers (ALB, ELB, NLB), IAM, VPC, Subnets, Cloudwatch and Route53.
  • Hands-on experience writing Terraform to provision and manage AWS cloud infrastructure.
  • Basic familiarity with network features, e.g., cloud network topology, routing
  • Configuration and provisioning of infrastructure for hosting third-party applications like Tableau, Cognos, etc.
  • Experience in writing scripts using Python, Ruby, YAML, or Shell scripts to automate tasks.
  • Experience handling patches, fixing vulnerabilities, AWS Cloud Watch event monitoring, and Cert update via AWS Cert Manager.
  • Experience in maintenance of Metadata repositories such as AWS Glue Catalog, and Glue crawler for data stored in: S3.
  • Experience with Story/Task/Bug tracking using tools with Jira.
  • Knowledge of SQL and relational/Columnar databases (Postgres, Redshift)
  • Good understanding of Authentication/Authorization concepts SSO, PING
  • Experience in Integration Services (Informatica Cloud, Airflow) is a plus.
  • Experience in cloud-based machine learning platforms (AWS Sagemaker) is a plus.
  • Experience in Data warehousing solutions (AWS Redshift) is a plus.
  • Experience in agile development processes and DevOps methodology/principles.
  • Experience in working within compliance (e.g.: quality, regulatory – data privacy, SOC) and cybersecurity requirements is a plus.

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