Principal TechOps Engineer

Principal TechOps Engineer:

As a principal member of the TechOps SRE team, you'll work closely with our engineering partners to help enable and drive initiatives from design to implementation. Our highly available multi-region Kubernetes (AWS EKS) environments are best-in-class and central to our enterprise-grade infrastructure strategy. These growing environments currently support numerous mission-critical workloads. In this exciting role, you'll have the opportunity to further develop and refine your skills, collaborate across numerous teams, and continue to grow in a fun, collaborative, and rapidly changing environment. This is a phenomenal opportunity to have a direct impact on the emerging strategies of our infrastructure and deployments, while at the same time, helping enable the expansion of our business.

The Skills and Expertise You Bring

5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment

Experience building and deploying Docker images

Experience migrating applications from other container orchestration solutions (such as ECS) to Kubernetes preferably on EKS

Production experience running Kubernetes workloads ideally on AWS EKS

Experience managing and maintaining Kubernetes Clusters on AWS EKS

Experience with Confluent or Kafka

Experience creating and deploying Helm charts & libraries

Hands-on experience with Jenkins Core, including authoring and maintaining declarative CI/CD pipelines and libraries

Experience with monitoring tools eg, CloudWatch, Datadog & Splunk Cloud

Proficiency with UNIX operating systems and Shell Scripting

Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), having managed services and applications in a large AWS cross-account environment using IAM and federated SSO

Experience crafting and maintaining logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilities using tools like Datadog and Splunk

Ability to communicate at all levels with track record of strong written and verbal communications

See problems as opportunities to automate

Ability to work independently with minimal direction

Drive and champion the overall design of highly available, secure, scalable microservices-based applications in AWS

Track record of providing technical leadership to strong teams of Site Reliability Engineers/Cloud Engineers

Experience with configuring and deploying resilient infrastructure in multiple regions and multiple availability zones