AWS DevOps Engineer

SANS Consulting Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer for a customer engagement focused on building, improving, and supporting scalable cloud infrastructure. The role involves developing and maintaining AWS and Kubernetes environments, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation, while improving reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Build, improve and extend AWS infrastructure supporting production applications and services
• Implement and manage Kubernetes environments and create and upgrade Helm charts
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, automating build, testing and deployment processes
• Use Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and Ansible, to create consistent and repeatable environments
• Improve monitoring and logging, helping teams identify issues and optimise application and infrastructure performance
• Automate infrastructure and operational processes using Bash and Python
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, database and production issues
• Work closely with software engineers to improve development and deployment processes
• Help design scalable architecture for large customer environments
• Identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability, security and cloud cost efficiency
• Support incident management, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery and continuous improvement

Skills

• PLEASE do not reply to this job if you have no recent Capital Markets experience working either at investment banks, investment managers, asset managers, prop trading firms, financial market data companies
• Positition requires US Citizens or Green Card holders ONLY. Cannot sponsor H1B VISAs
• 5+ years' DevOps / infrastructure engineering experience in production environments
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS
• Excellent knowledge of Linux administration
• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines
• Strong scripting skills using Bash and/or Python
• Good understanding of cloud networking, routing and troubleshooting
• Experience working with web services such as NGINX, Apache and Tomcat
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to diagnose complex production issues
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly
• Must have right to work in US as we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role
• GitLab CI/CD experience is particularly useful
• Experience with Helm and managing Kubernetes deployments at scale
• Experience with logging and monitoring platforms
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices
• Cloud cost optimization and performance engineering experience
• Experience designing infrastructure for PaaS or enterprise customer environments
• Previous experience within financial services or capital markets

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