AWS Automation DevOps Engineer

This is a HYBRID onsite position. We require you to be onsite 5 days per MONTH. We are unable to sponsor visa at this time. AWS Automation DevOps Engineer Full Time Arlington, VA, US Your Role The AWS Automation DevOps Engineer is a crucial member of our Automation Services team, focusing on enterprise-level automation activities, including curating best practices, plotting strategic direction, providing reusable shared services, and managing automation orchestration tools. Team members collaborate with software development and operations teams performing automated deployments through infrastructure-as-code. This team works with a broad range of automation technologies, such as AWS/cloud infrastructure and services, CloudFormation, Python, Ansible, and Groovy in a fully automated, cloud-based environment. In addition, DevOps Platform Engineers manage the company’s automation orchestration tools, including Jenkins, Artifactory, Sonar, and Sonatype Lifecycle. Your Responsibilities Develop frameworks to improve the automation experience. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, test, deploy, and support a broad spectrum of technology solutions, emphasizing automation and cloud infrastructure. Provide expert knowledge in core technologies such as Jenkins, Ansible, Python, Bash, CloudFormation, and Terraform. Utilize a deep understanding of container technologies such as Docker, AWS Fargate, and ECS. Enhance automated deployment solutions and proactively monitor such solutions across various products and environments. Advocate various deployment strategies to support the adoption of automated deployments. Encourage a DevOps approach throughout the software development lifecycle. Work closely with application and infrastructure architects to implement technical designs, learn existing patterns and practices, and introduce new solutions. Maintain an infectious security-first mindset throughout the team, keeping up to date with security vulnerabilities, and taking appropriate measures to secure our systems. Promote new technology and innovation while keeping existing systems up-to-date and secure. Provide support for automation orchestration during application releases. Proactively monitor project activities to ensure that all deliverables are provided on time, within budget, and in compliance with quality standards. Collaborate with IT Operations to identify requirements for environments and tools needed to support the timely migration and operation of application solutions. Take an active role in reconciling team decisions regarding technology choices, infrastructure evaluation, and best practices for supported systems. Required Experience, Skills, and Qualifications 10+ years of experience in IT administration or software engineering. 5+ years in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Proficient knowledge of programming, such as Java and Node.js, and build tools, such as Gradle. 3+ years of experience with deployment and automation technologies. Strong knowledge of automation and pipeline-related technologies, such as Groovy, Ansible, CloudFormation, and Python. Proficiency in source code management using Git and its role in adopting Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). 2+ years of experience administrating CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins and Artifactory. Demonstrated experience in AWS infrastructure technologies and architecture concepts with the capability to design, deploy, and support cloud-based systems in AWS. Familiarity with databases, such as Oracle and Postgres, and the ability to identify areas for database automation and optimization. Ability to convert business requirements into tangible deliverables. Proficiency in the Linux operating system, networking concepts, and troubleshooting. Strong knowledge of test automation frameworks and the ability to implement test-driven development. Ability to follow and create code quality guidelines and development best practices. Strong problem-solving skills, ability to multitask within tight deadlines, and superior attention to detail; self-directed and results/goal-oriented. Strong communication skills. Bachelor's degree in computer science.

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