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Open Systems Technologies

Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Open Systems Technologies, Richmond, Virginia, United States, 23214


A financial firm is looking for a

Cloud/DevOps Engineer

to join their team. This role is remote.

Pay: $135-140/hr

-USC Only-Key aspects of the role: IaC pattern development/curation-Day to Day Expectations: Agile ceremonies, Collaborate and Develop IaC patterns with Terraform

Responsibilities:· Engage with architects, application development teams and technical support teams to achieve success in migrating on-prem applications to AWS by developing infrastructure as code solutions.· Work with business partners, architects, and other groups to identify technical and functional needs of systems, and determine priority of needs.· Collaborate with performing teams to deliver new capabilities in business applications and/or remediate issues.· Analyze, define and document requirements for data, workflow, and logical processes.· Analyze and translate business, information and technical requirements to create patterns for solutions that integrate across applications, systems and platforms to achieve business objectives.· Assess foundational services, integration services, cloud operations and management capabilities.· Champion, communicate and rationalize approaches with business leaders, organization management and within teams to develop structured outcome of proof of fit/proof of concept.· Establish the direction for application development approaches, including tools, process and frameworks.· Support preparation of documentation including application designs, Assessments, Security Management, Implementation Plans and post implementation documentation.· Lead by example, demonstrating high performance in the areas of customer satisfaction, collaboration, teamwork, and reliability.· Participate in the establishment of local standards, patterns, and practices for cloud integration, while providing input and influence to broader organizational standards and initiatives.· Spearhead use of innovative new technology and best practices for new product and solution development initiatives.· Participate in IT strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, business cases, business innovation, and portfolio development.· Responsible for the planning and engineering of an organization's systems infrastructure. Includes the implementation and design of hardware and software.

Qualifications:· AWS Certification (Certified Developer or Solutions Architect).· 2+ years of experience in Agile.· 3+ years of experience in deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.· 3+ years of experience in deploying cloud-based solutions.· 2+ years of experience in deploying hybrid cloud-based solutions.· Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an Information Technology field, or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.· Minimum eight years of information technology experience directly related to infrastructure engineering (compute, storage, network) of which 2+ years focused on cloud architecture, design, and implementation.· Excellent oral and written communication, presentation, leadership, interpersonal, collaborative/relationship-building, organizational & planning, and analytical & problem-solving skills.

•Demonstrated experience being part of a high velocity DevOps team•Practical articulation of IaC - thorough knowledge and practical experience implementing container management concepts and practices using OCP, Kubernetes, and Docker• Highly proficient in Terraform and CloudFormation• Cloud-native Architecture: Well Architected Framework, 12 Factor App, Cloud Reference Architectures, Cloud Service Models, Microservices architecture, Serverless architecture• Cloud Security: Shared Security Model, Cloud Security Architecture, IAM policies/roles, WAF, OWASP Web/API, SAML, vulnerabilities and compensating controls (CSP, CSRF, XSS, SQLI) etc.• Cloud-native Services: Optimization of applications to scalable cloud designs, designing, arch and integration of applications to modern cloud patterns• Containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Docker Swarm, Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code • Cloud-native monitoring, logging - ELK, Splunk, CloudWatch, amongst others• Well-versed in Agile software development practices & ability to contribute to sprint ceremonies such as, Refinement, Planning, Review, Retrospectives & knowledge of JIRA software tool• Well-versed in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices, automated testing, Automated code quality scanning, and Automated Deployments. ex: Deploy XL , Deploy Release, Subversion, Jenkins• Demonstrated experience in mentorship and serving as technical subject matter expert (SME) for a development team

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