AWS Architect, DevOPS & Python Scripting

Trigyn Technologies; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT solutions provider in New York City is looking for an AWS Architect to lead their DevOps team. The role involves hands-on management of AWS infrastructure and requires a strong background in DevOps practices and scripting. Candidates must have experience leading teams, maintaining scalable cloud deployments, and collaborating closely with various technical stakeholders. The ideal applicant leverages a deep understanding of the latest technologies while fostering a service-oriented culture within the team. Competitive contract terms apply.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading an Ops/DevOps team with 5+ reports.
• Experience in supporting high-traffic cloud deployments.
• Comfortable writing scripts in Python, Ruby, Bash, or Groovy.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to building and maintaining AWS infrastructure.
• Continuously improve infrastructure for scalability and uptime.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, and product managers.

Skills

AWS

DevOps

Python scripting

Linux/Unix

Continuous integration

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Tomcat

Cassandra

Apache

Cloud Foundry

Bosh

Job description

AWS Architect, DevOPS & Python Scripting

Contract

Trigyn Technologies is an innovative solutions provider and systems integrator that has been in business for 30 years with more than 1,500 resources deployed today. We have professionals on board at locations in the United States, Canada, Europe, India, Africa and the Far East, working around the clock to bring cutting‑edge technology closer to you. Trigyn provides IT Staffing, Consulting, Solutions, Systems Integration, Digital Marketing and other services to its clients.

In the United States and Canada, Trigyn has office locations in Edison, New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and Toronto, Canada. In Europe our operations are supported from Solothurn, Switzerland. Our Global Development Center is located in Mumbai, India, which also supports our operations in Asia.

Trigyn believes that technology is about people. At Trigyn, we place a high degree of importance on people and relationships. This is reflected in the way we respond to our clients, interact with our employees and foster diversity in the workplace and our community.

As the AWS / DevOps Lead you will be responsible for leading our client’s DevOps group who create, operate, maintain and evolve their infrastructure that supports their internal customers and products.

While leading the DevOps team you will be contributing hands‑on and helping to grow the team. You enjoy developing scalable, secure and enterprise‑grade deployments and working with a team of dedicated engineers and product managers to support common goals.

No Third Parties please.

Responsibilities

This is a hands‑on position, which will require the following capabilities:

• Lead and contribute in the DevOps team to maintain and build out infrastructure and servers currently operating on AWS.
• Evolve infrastructure, server, deployment strategies and testing to support the goal of 100% up‑time and quick turnaround of deployments for the engineering organization.
• Continuously improve our infrastructure to be easy to deploy, scalable, secure and fault‑tolerant.
• Work closely with the client’s Architects, Engineers, Product Managers and other clients and partners of the DevOps team to meet the needs of the organization to stay competitive – from the infrastructure up to the highest level of applications.
• Take on the same responsibilities of a DevOps engineer such as being on‑call, writing deployment scripts, debugging applications, evaluating new technologies and more.
• Help build a pipeline of qualified DevOps candidates for future openings and lead the DevOps engineers.
• Drive the process in which the DevOps team operates and iterates/releases.

Requirements and Qualifications

• You are smart with an intellectual curiosity that motivates you to keep on top of technical trends – but you also have deep knowledge in the tools of choice.
• You have supported Linux/Unix deployments for a company with a high traffic site in the cloud.
• You have designed, monitored and managed scalable and fault‑tolerant deployments and supported them in real‑world scenarios.
• You have led an Ops/DevOps team before (5 reports or more) for 2+ years – preferably at a startup.
• You have experience with continuous integration, log collection and analysis, builds and performance monitoring/tuning of your infrastructure.
• You are service‑oriented, and enjoy working with engineers to make the software development process as painless as possible.
• You are comfortable writing scripts in python/ruby/bash/groovy/ (at least two of those).
• You are extremely reliable and the client can count on you in times of need and are used to 24X7 coverage plans.
• You have demonstrable experience with the stack of – Cloud/AWS, Tomcat, Cassandra, Apache, Cloud Foundry, Bosh etc.

Nice To Have

• Previous experience working with distributed teams – directly interacting with the development teams.
• Experience with Ansible, Puppet, Chef….
• Experience with network and server security.

TRIGYN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and has been in business for 30 years. TRIGYN is an ISO 9001:2008, ISO 27001:2013 (ISMS) and CMMI Level 3 certified company. TRIGYN is an E-Verify® Employer.