Cloud Devops Engineer

Gerdau North America; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Gerdau North America in Tampa, FL seeks an experienced DevOps Engineer to drive automation and standards across testing, production, and cloud migration initiatives. You will help create scalable, fault-tolerant systems and lead active security governance for applications and infrastructure.

In this role, you will automate cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure), build pipelines, monitor environments, and collaborate in an Agile Scrum environment to deliver resilient platforms and efficient operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar engineering discipline from an accredited university.
• 5 years of professional experience
• Knowledge of Agile and Project Management
• Experience working with Cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure)
• Experience operating in virtual environments required
• Experience with both Windows and Unix-based operating systems required
• Knowledge of deployment and configuration technologies (e.g., Gitlab, Jenkins, Ansible, etc.)
• Knowledge of Containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, K8s, etc.)
• Knowledge of IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure ARM)
• Knowledge of tools, such as Helm, Artifactory, SonarQube, etc.
• Knowledge of source control technologies (e.g., Git, subversion)
• Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Bash)

Responsibilities

• Drive automation standards across testing and production environments and migration to cloud
• Create high-performance, scalable, fault-tolerant computing systems and research DevOps solutions
• Automate infrastructure creation on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
• Design and implement security governance for apps and infrastructure
• Automate pipelines, environments, and monitoring, update for issues
• Improve automation across integration, deployment, monitoring, and config management
• Design and deploy in Agile (Scrum) to support service platforms
• Participate in design and development from definition to deployment; lead daily ops
• Verify and monitor on-premises and cloud environments; respond to issues
• Recommend design trade-offs and assist with troubleshooting
• Design and implement fault-tolerant architectures across apps

Skills

Cloud technologies

Automation

Agile

Project management

Scripting

Unix/Linux

Containerization

IaC

CI/CD tools

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Gitlab

Jenkins

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Azure ARM

Helm

Artifactory

SonarQube

Git

Subversion

Job description

Responsibilities

• Drive automation standards across our testing and production environments and be a key resource as we migrate our monolith and microservice application to the cloud
• Create high-performance, scalable, and fault-tolerant computing systems while researching and providing solutions to challenging technical issues related to DevOps
• Automate the infrastructure creation on the cloud, such as AWS, Azure, and others
• Design and implement security governance practices for the applications and infrastructure
• Automate pipelines and environments, build resilient systems, and create repeatable processes, as well as update monitoring systems to detect service and security issues
• Improve automation degree in integration, deployment, monitoring, and configuration management aspects of developed solutions and development infrastructure
• Design and deploy, in an Agile (Scrum) environment, assets and code that will help, deploy, test, monitor, as well as maintain components and services for next-generation service platforms
• Participate in the design and development process from definition to deployment while leading daily operational support activities for services developed using the DevOps practice
• Verify and monitor on-premises and cloud environments and respond to issues as they arise, adding new monitoring as needed
• Recommend alternate choices and trade-offs for various design decisions while assisting with troubleshooting issues
• Design and implement Fault tolerance architecture for all the applications

Your Expertise

• Customer-Centric – Focus efforts to ensure internal and external customers thrive
• Business Acumen – Acknowledge the impact of your actions in local and global contexts while working to generate sustainable value (economic, social, and environmental) for the organization. In addition, you should understand basic business processes and possess the ability to identify and develop workflows and process maps for continual improvement and waste elimination within the business.
• Technical Expertise – Understand all IT functions, cloud technologies, and services in use, and become familiar with the current direction in the infrastructure market
• Simplistic Agility – Foster simplicity and agility to look for ways to streamline work and processes to become more effective and efficient while developing new ideas quickly
• Global Perspective – Ability to successfully operate in a global IT organization bringing perspective to daily work while leveraging relationships, expertise, and opportunities across borders taking the company’s strategy and priorities into consideration.
• Accountability – Take initiative and assume personal accountability and ownership for goals, outcomes, and deadlines holding others accountable for achieving individual and organizational objectives.
• Analysis – Possess critical thinking ability and deal systematically with input from a variety of sources to suggest alternative approaches to unfamiliar situations or concepts, as well as strong analytical skills, including an understanding of business economics and financial resources.

Your Credentials

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar engineering discipline from an accredited university
• 5 years of professional experience
• Knowledge of Agile and Project Management
• Experience working with Cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure)
• Experience operating in virtual environments required
• Experience with both Windows and Unix-based operating systems required
• Knowledge of deployment and configuration technologies (e.g., Gitlab, Jenkins, Ansible, etc.)
• Knowledge of Containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, K8s, etc.)
• Knowledge of IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure ARM)
• Knowledge of tools, such as Helm, Artifactory, SonarQube, etc.
• Knowledge of source control technologies (e.g., Git, subversion)
• Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Bash)