Sr. DevOps Engineer - Apollo Technology Solutions LLC
Des Moines, IA
About the Job
Job Title: Sr. DevOps Engineer
Location: Des Moines, IA/ Remote
Duration: 8+ Months
Location: Des Moines, IA/ Remote
Duration: 8+ Months
**100% Remote**
Job Description:
- AWS CDK Mastery: Lead the design, development, and maintenance of AWS infrastructure using AWS CDK and Typescript, ensuring best practices and optimal performance.
- Advanced AWS Services Management: Manage, configure, and optimize a broad range of AWS services, including but not limited to EC2, EKS, ECR, Cognito, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, and CloudFront.
- Service Mesh Expertise: Architect, build, and sustain Istio service mesh within EKS clusters to ensure seamless and secure service interactions.
- Technical Leadership: Provide authoritative guidance and technical leadership in the implementation of AWS cloud infrastructure, influencing and mentoring diverse teams
- Comprehensive Testing: Develop and maintain robust unit and integration tests to guarantee infrastructure as code (IaC) integrity and reliability.
- CI/CD Implementation: Spearhead the implementation and management of CI/CD pipelines, automating the deployment of infrastructure and applications for maximum efficiency
- Monitoring & Performance Optimization: Collect telemetry, set up comprehensive monitoring systems, dashboards, and alerts, utilizing tools such as FluentBit, CloudWatch and Dynatrace to gain deep insights into cloud operations and application performance
- Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues, ensuring high availability and optimal performance of infrastructure and services.
- Use Helm charts to package necessary resources and configurations, streamline installing, upgrading, fetching dependencies, and configuring deployments on EKS
- Collaboration & Optimization: Collaborate closely with software engineers to optimize application performance and reliability in AWS environments.
- Security & Compliance: Implement and enforce security best practices and compliance controls, ensuring the AWS environment adheres to the highest operational and security standards.
- AWS CDK Expertise: Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience in AWS CDK development using Typescript.
- EKS Development: At least 8 years of experience in developing and managing AWS services, with a strong focus on Amazon EKS.
- Service Mesh: 4 years of experience in designing, building, and maintaining service mesh like Istio within an EKS environment
- AWS Services Development: 8 years of extensive experience in developing and managing various AWS services, including EC2, EKS, ECR, S3, Cognito, NLB,
- Containers: experience working with Docker containers and microservices framework Helm charts: experience working with Helm charts
- Scripting Languages: Proficiency in scripting languages such as TypeScript, with at least 6 years of experience.
- CI/CD Tools Mastery: 8 years of experience building pipelines using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, GitHub Actions, etc
- AWS Well-Architected Frameworks: A solid understanding of AWS Well-Architected Frameworks with a minimum of 4 years of experience
- Networking Concepts: Strong understanding of networking concepts and protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, SSL/TLS) with 8 years of experience.
- Security Best Practices: 6 years of solid experience in implementing security best practices within AWS environments.
- Configuration Management & Orchestration tools to ensure cloud environments meet operational and security standards
- AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, etc
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
- Experience working in an Agile environment.
- Previous experience in the public sector or on large-scale projects is a plus.
Source : Apollo Technology Solutions LLC
