Senior Cloud (DevOps) Engineer - Guatemala

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Senior Devops for Cloud is responsible for enabling the use of AWS cloud services, as well as infrastructure management practices. You will be responsible for researching, architecting, and building innovative tools, systems, and best practices. Assist in the modernizing of application stacks around cloud native principles and migrating business workloads AWS.

Responsibilities:

• Focus on migrating workloads to the AWS cloud
• Working knowledge of AWS services and design principles
• Engage in multiple projects concurrently,, dealing with different business units and teams to understand their challenges and goals in moving to the public cloud
• Experienced in architecting and deploying multi-tiered applications which are highly available, resilient, with secure cloud architectures
• Experience containerizing and modernizing legacy applications to run on modern cloud architectures.
• Proactively manage issues and risks through the delivery lifecycle
• Exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions
• Manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing
• Collaborate across teams on feature design and problem solving
• Manage the full lifecycle of software components, from requirements through design, testing, development, release, and demise
• Partner with colleagues to ensure an outstanding, useable, and unobtrusive experience for development teams building and deploying their applications and infrastructure
• Help to communicate and promote best practices for AWS application development, infrastructure management, and security across the firm
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills with proven abilities in resolving complex issues.

Requirements:

• Experience working with AWS
• Experience with designing cloud implementation architectures and solutions using PaaS, DevOps & Advanced Application coding
• Experience with application transformation and modernization & data migrations projects.
• Experience building, testing, and securing container images.
• Experience with container orchestration, ECS or EKS (kubernetes) including service mesh (Istio), Helm, and/or Kustomize.
• Experience with various Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Source Code Repos and configuration management tools, technologies, and best practices.
• Implementation experience of cloud architectures and solutions using PaaS, DevOps & Advanced Application coding.
• Experience using database technologies like Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL and understanding of NoSQL, MongoDB is preferred.
• Experience in performance tuning, including load balancing, web servers, content delivery Networks (CDN), Caching, etc.
• Experience deploying multi-tiered applications.
• Strong background in Linux and Windows administration.
• Solid understanding of networking and core Internet Protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTPS, VPN, and routing in distributed networks.
• Experience with source code management tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or equivalent.
• 4+ or more years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Pipeline as Code (PaC), automated single click deployment, configuration management with large/mid-size applications via Terraform on AWS.
• Ability to perform infrastructure discovery and assessments working with the Architecture team.
• Familiarity with functional operations of server, storage, and network functions.

Certifications (nice to have):

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional
• AWS DevOps Professional
• AWS Security Specialty
• AWS Network Specialty