Mid-Level AWS DevOps Engineer

Overview

Job Description SWIVEL is seeking a high-performing, hands-on Mid Level Dev Ops Engineer committed to the practices required to support critical customer-facing platforms requiring consistent uptime while driving continuous improvement and innovation. Participate in small-team initiatives to continuously refine our deployment practices for improved reliability, repeatability, and security. You will create plans, collaborate with other Dev Ops team members, and coordinate with software engineering and business teams.

These high-visibility initiatives will help to increase service levels, lower costs, and deliver features more quickly. Design effective monitoring & alerting for conditions such as application errors and high memory usage. Design log aggregation approaches to quickly access logs for troubleshooting or generate reports for trend analysis to proactively notify business stakeholders of issues and communicate metrics while working closely with these stakeholders.

Why you’ll love this role:
Doing the audacious is part of SWIVEL’s DNA. We are a company that rewards creative minds who can offer bold solutions, where opinions matter, anything is possible, and the outcome can be revolutionary. As a cutting-edge financial services company, SWIVEL is doing big things and needs the brightest minds to tackle the biggest challenges. Come join us!

• Delivering excellence to our Software Engineering teams, empowering them to maximize development velocity while simultaneously enforcing best practices and security standards.
• Ownership, architecture, and management of AWS infrastructure components such as Lambda, EKS, etc.
• Building with a mind for both security and compliance.
• Deploying to AWS via Azure Dev Ops-based source control and CI/CD pipeline design.
• Owning the technical design, and implementation of the automation technologies required for deploying, maintaining and operating cloud infrastructure.
• Creating the policies and procedures for properly supporting our rapidly growing microservice architecture.
• Ensuring cloud-based architectures meet availability and recoverability requirements.
• Implementation of cloud-based monitoring and alerting.
• Find scalability bottlenecks and areas for performance improvements.
• Identify and execute on opportunities to help set the standard for excellence in cloud infrastructure design and automation.
• Active monitoring of risks to site SLAs and overall delivery.

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, Developer) required.
• At least two (2) years managing AWS infrastructure.
• At least three (3) years Dev Ops engineering experience.
• At least two (2) years Terraform or Cloud Formation.
• At least two (2) years Azure Dev Ops CI/CD.
• A strong software engineering or programming background. Any language is acceptable but prefer experience with Python, C#, or .NET.
• Proven experience with industry standard monitoring and alerting tools.
• Proficiency with Docker, EKS, and microservice architecture in general.
• Proficiency with log aggregation tools such as ELK or Splunk.
• Architecting and deploying advanced cloud infrastructures within AWS.
• Solid understanding of web services, databases and related infrastructure/architectures.
• Solid understanding of backup/restore best practices.
• Release software through tooling (Azure Dev Ops, Github Actions, Jenkins, etc).
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Experience supporting an enterprise-level technology environment.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently.
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication, and documentation skills.
• Demonstrable experience with cloud security fundamentals.
• Excellent collaboration skills across various business units.
• "Can do” attitude with a penchant for getting things done on time and on budget.