AWS DevOps Engineer
MentorWorks Education Capital, a workforce development company, is looking for an AWS DevOps Engineer to join one of our employer partners. Candidates will be screened by the MentorWorks team. If selected, the candidate will move on in the process to our employment partner.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Level: middle (min. 5+ yr of related experience required)
Contract period: 1 years
Work Location: Mountain View, CA (5 days/wk onsite is mandatory)
We’re looking for an AWS DevOps Engineer in Mountain View, CA. This position will primarily perform day to day DevOps duties.
We’re committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. We work hard in fast paced environment, challenge the status quo and relentlessly strive for excellence, yet we like to have a good time, with a fun filled atmosphere.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with our clients
- Review, recommend, and improve Kubernetes infrastructure and configuration for both hosted k8s hosted and cloud native (EKS/AKS)
- Full deployment stack ownership across Jenkins, container registry, Kubernetes and container/pod operations.
- Experience in AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) 6.5 deployments including install, configure, maintain, upgrade, troubleshoot, and repair.
- Capacity planning and auto-scaling pod infrastructure.
- Ability to troubleshoot overlay networks as they relate to pod communications.
- Work closely with product & engineering groups to migrate services into k8s/container infrastructure.
- Implement infrastructure including network connectivity, virtual machines and monitoring.
- Implement and follow security guidelines, both policy and technical to protect our customers.
- Resolve incidents as escalated from monitoring solutions and lower DevOps tiers.
- Identify root cause for issues and develop long term solutions to fix recurring issues.
- Ability to automate recurring tasks to increase velocity and quality.
- Design infrastructure solutions balancing requirements, operational constraints and architecture guidelines.
• Research emerging technologies, trends and methodologies and enhance existing systems and processes.
Requirements/Qualifications
• 5+ years of experience in Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins deployments and operations for containerized micro services at an enterprise scale.
• AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) 6.5 deployments including install, configure, maintain, upgrade, troubleshoot, and repair.
• Must have prior experience in configuring and utilizing monitoring and alerting tools to detect issues and optimize systems.
• Proven track record in deploying, configuring and maintaining Linux flavor server systems in the cloud. Ubuntu preferred.
• Engineering and operational experience with AWS including EC2, S3, cloud formation, networking/VPCs. Compatible Azure experience ok.
• Scripting to automate infrastructure and operational processes.
• Hands on work to secure applications, pods, and containers in a least privileged manner.
• Application management and providing high availability solutions using clustering, failover or other methods.
• Sound problem resolution, judgment, negotiating and decision making skills
• Ability to manage and deliver multiple project phases at the same time
• Strong analytical and organizational skills
• Cloud certifications are required; Cloud Solutions Architect-Associate level or above and AWS Specialty certifications
• Hands-on experience with Jira/Confluence
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
**Must have permanent US work authorization. Sponsorship is not available for this position.**