Senior AWS DevOps Engineer - Fort Mill, SC at Perficient, Inc.
Fort Mill, SC 29715
About the Job
We currently have a career opportunity for a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer. This role requires experience writing short python programs for scripting and manipulating data from scratch. This will be a hybrid role and you will be required to be on-site in Fort Mill, SC three - four days a week.
Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly-growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.
Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, experience work-life balance, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.
Perficient is seeking an AWS professional who is a cloud migration enthusiast with passion for elastic workloads and serverless frameworks. With your expertise in cloud computing, you will architect and build cloud-native systems, wrangle cloud systems’ complexity, and ensure that best practices are followed when utilizing a wide variety of cloud service offerings. You will also weigh the pros and cons of using IaaS services versus PaaS and other managed services when designing and recommending solutions.
You are expected to be a subject matter expert on AWS services, tools and best practices. You will answer questions on various cloud-native technologies and AWS services, and you will provide recommendations on what service to use and when. As such, you should have extensive hands-on experience with the varied AWS services, their limitations and alternate (non-AWS) solutions that might serve better in particular situations.
CI/CD: The role requires deep involvement in continuous delivery automation, and the integration of cloud-native services to create fully functioning, cohesive delivery pipelines. Your set of skills should include tools and systems like:
- CI/CD suites such as Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis CI or GitLab CI
- Source control management such as GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket
- AWS build tools including: AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline
Observability: You will ensure that an application and the systems it runs on implement appropriate monitoring, logging and alerting solutions. Your experience should include:
- Slack, DataDog
- Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS X-Ray
- Amazon SNS, Nagios
- Elasticsearch, Kibana
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): You will provision cloud infrastructure in an automated manner using tools such as:
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation and, AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) experience is desired but not required.
Containerization & Orchestration: You must have hands-on experience building containers and automating container orchestration - deployment, management, and scaling, using tools such as:
- Docker
- Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Amazon ECS/EKS experience is desired but not required – Not required but desired.
- RedHat OpenShift
- Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Database: The role requires working knowledge in setting and querying:
- Relational data stores: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora
- NoSQL data stores: MongoDB, AWS DynamoDB
- Data warehouse: Amazon Redshift
- Amazon RDS Proxy and MongoDB experience is desired but not required.
Automation: In-depth programming experience is required for the implementation of solution POCs and the automation of solution resiliency validation and verification. You should be able to utilize:AWS Lambda
- Bash and, Python
- Java experience is desired but not required.
Security: The role includes responsibility for technical security implementation, and enforcement of compliance and security guidelines. You should have passion for cutting edge cloud services, and deep interest in cybersecurity architecture and information security technologies. Required skills include:
- AWS Identity Access Management (IAM)
- AWS KMS
- AWS Control Tower experience is desired but not required.
- Identity management, federated security and SSO experience is desired but not required.
- Secrets management: Vault experience is desired but not required, AWS KMS
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in the design & implementation of distributed applications
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in highly available architecture and solution implementation on AWS and on-prem data centers
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in architecting and delivering AWS solutions
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience with industry patterns, methodologies, and techniques across the disaster recovery discipline
- Proficient in authoring, editing and presenting technical documents.
- Strong written and oral communication skills; Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff.
Preferred education and certification:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
- AWS certifications in one or more of the following is desired: - At least one of the following
DevOps Engineer Professional – preferred
SysOps Administrator Associate
Solutions Architect Professional
Solutions Architect Associate
Developer Associate
The salary range for this position takes into consideration a variety of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, level of experience, applicable office location, training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The new hire salary range displays the minimum and maximum salary targets for this position across all US locations, and the range has not been adjusted for any specific state differentials. It is not typical for a candidate to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the unique facts and circumstances regarding each candidate. A reasonable estimate of the current salary range for this position is $73,008 to $170,640. Please note that the salary range posted reflects the base salary only and does not include benefits or any potential equity or variable bonus programs. Information regarding the benefits available for this position are in our benefits overview.
WHO WE ARE
Perficient is a leading global digital consultancy. We imagine, create, engineer, and run digital transformation solutions that help our clients exceed customers’ expectations, outpace competition, and grow their business. With unparalleled strategy, creative, and technology capabilities, our colleagues bring big thinking and innovative ideas, along with a practical approach to help our clients – the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands succeed.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
At Perficient, we promise to challenge, champion, and celebrate our people. You will experience a unique and collaborative culture that values every voice. Join our team, and you’ll become part of something truly special.
We believe in developing a workforce that is as diverse and inclusive as the clients we work with. We’re committed to actively listening, learning, and acting to further advance our organization, our communities, and our future leaders… and we’re not done yet.
Perficient, Inc. proudly provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Perficient, Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Perficient, Inc. expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or covered veterans. Improper interference with the ability of Perficient, Inc. employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled or the posting removed.
Disability Accommodations:
Perficient is committed to providing a barrier-free employment process with reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact us.
Disclaimer: The above statements are not intended to be a complete statement of job content, rather to act as a guide to the essential functions performed by the employee assigned to this classification. Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of the position at any time. #LI-KO1 #LI-AWS #LI-DevOps #LI-Terraform #LI-Python
