AWS DevOps Engineer

About the Company

The Data Engineering and Advanced Analytics Enablement team is seeking an experienced AWS Dev Ops Engineer to lead the enablement of analytics tools on a cloud-native architecture.

This role will design, build, and maintain infrastructure that supports next-generation analytics platforms, leveraging best practices in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), high availability, fault tolerance, and operational excellence for COTS deployments in AWS. Expertise in Amazon EKS, CI/CD automation, and scripting is essential.

• Drive technical requirements gathering and solution design sessions with engineers, architects, and product managers in an Agile environment.
• Design, build, and deploy infrastructure for analytics COTS tools (e.g., Posit/RStudio, Anaconda Distribution) on AWS.
• Develop and automate scripts for deploying and configuring software components, from large-scale COTS products to custom microservices.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using AWS services and tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation, Code Pipeline, Lambda (R/Python), Cloud Watch, Route
  53, S3, and more.
• Architect and manage Amazon EKS clusters for containerized workloads, ensuring scalability and security.
• Continuously improve infrastructure provisioning automation, CI/CD pipelines, and operational excellence in the cloud.
• Monitor and optimize system performance in AWS for reliability, cost efficiency, and resilience.
• Conduct peer reviews and enhance existing infrastructure for scalability and fault tolerance.
• Participate in on-call rotations for critical outages and incidents.
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including system diagrams and operational procedures.

• 7+ years of IT experience, including software development and Dev Ops functions.
• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining CI/CD tooling (Git Lab Pipelines, Jenkins Pipelines, Bitbucket, Git Hub) and creating/extending CI/CD environments via Terraform and Cloud Formation.
• 3+ years of production experience with core AWS services (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, API Gateway, ALB, ELB, Lambda, etc.).
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience with Amazon EKS and container orchestration.
• 3+ years of Unix/Linux system administration experience.
• Proficiency in Python (preferred) and R.
• Strong automation scripting skills in Bash, Shell, Python, and familiarity with Java, JavaScript, Ansible, Perl.
• Experience supporting web technologies and websites running Apache or NGINX.
• Familiarity with open‑source web service environments (Java, REST, SOAP).
• Working experience with Confluence, Jira SaaS, SharePoint, others.

• Deep understanding of the AWS Well‑Architected Framework.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
• Effective teamwork, planning, and coordination skills.
• Self‑motivated, adaptable, and capable of meeting aggressive deadlines.
• Ability to independently research and resolve technical challenges in complex IT environments.