Principal DevOps Engineer: Cloud & Automation Lead

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Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

Principal Software Engineer role in Santa Clara, CA or Tempe, AZ with a banking tech focus is seeking a senior engineer to lead cloud migrations, build automation, and secure cloud architectures. Expect hands-on work with AWS native services, Terraform templates, and container platforms, while driving CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies.

You will collaborate across product teams, design end-to-end observability, and ensure security across cloud solutions in a multi-region, multi-AZ

Qualifications

8-10 years of demonstrated experience in designing and developing complex distributed IT solutions.
6 years of real work deployment experience in core infrastructure technologies including compute, storage, networking, databases, security, and management.
For the last 2 years, hands-on experience with deploying cloud solutions such as AWS and others.
5 years of experience with DevSecOps tools (Jenkins, Gitlab) and building CICD pipelines
Experience with Jenkins, writing code as a pipeline jobs using groovy. Using groovy to create shared libraries
Hands-on Experience working with container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
Deep Understanding of service design for Cloud (AWS) using Containers, Container Orchestration (like Kubernetes), Service Mesh (like Istio), Kafka
Experience implementing and utilizing service mesh
Experience with Unix OS, writing scripts using shell/bash, Perl, Python for task automation
Good knowledge of Linux internals and administration
Network configuration of Firewalls, VPN, Routers/Switches, and Load Balancers
Troubleshooting and resolving single customer issues with Windows, Mac, and Linux, VPN, permissions, and ownership of a wide variety of account administration tasks.
Hands-on Extensive Experience with AWS Managed Services
Compute EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda
Database RDS, DynamoDB, RDS
AWS Networking & Security Groups and their underlying technologies
Well versed in AWS services for monitoring, logging, metrics, high availability, and automation
Hands-on Experience in Linux environments (RHEL)
Deep knowledge & Hands on Experience of infrastructure as code (Terraform, Gitlab CI/CD)
Experience in systems software development (java go, python, bash, ... )
Hands-on Experience with Ansible, writing playbooks to automate tasks, deploy artifacts
Effective Communication Excellent listener proven collaborator with management and peers
Hands-On Experience building solutions in AWS, including services such as EC2, S3, VPC, SNS, SQS, Lambda, Dynamo DB, RDS, Redshift, Glue etc.
Ability to create and utilize Terraform templates to automated creation of AWS images
Experience in developing business solutions in Java, node, reactJS or DotNet languages
Experience in setting up ALBs and Security Groups for the applications
Experience with DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Maven, GitLab, SonarQube in a cloud environment
Demonstrable skillset in scripting languages, e.g., Bash, PowerShell Demonstrable skillset in programming languages, preferably JavaScript or Python
A team player capable of high performance, flexibility in a dynamic working environment and the ability to lead
Skill and ability to train others on technical and procedural topics
10 years of related application engineering experience
AWS Certification in Developer or Solution Architect is preferred
Ability to analyze and troubleshoot production issues.
Required to work in overlapping/shift hours when needed.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with product engineering teams to develop and deploy applications using Gitlab, Terraform, AWS services and methodologies
Analyze existing on-prem application architecture and develop cloud compatible solutions to migrate applications
Ability to develop applications and deploy in AWS cloud in multi-region, multi-AZ distributed systems
Envision, Design and Build end-to-end Observability for Applications running on AWS Platform
Ability to leverage Terraform and contribute new Terraform templates for reuse across organization
Ensure security is integrated into all cloud architecture solutions
Develop and migrate mission critical services and build automation to proactively detect and prevent re-occurrences
Have full oversight into changes going into production, asset tagging, cost and capacity analysis, vulnerability, and patch management
Define auto-scaling processes for optimizing service and compute utilization
Build continuous integration and automated deployment pipelines for the applications Design and develop reusable frameworks, components and libraries that can be leveraged by other teams
Experience in administrating RHEL VMs
Hands on experience with scripting languages like Bash/Shell or Python.
Hands on experience with installing and configuring application/Web servers like Weblogic, Tomcat, apache and others
Knowledge of programming language will be a plus
Should have proficiency in debugging and resolving issues
Should have experience with hardening of webservers and configurations needed to secure them
Administrative experience in Jenkins
Should have experience with configuring and setting up Jenkins in Master Slave setup
Hands on experience with creating Jenkins pipeline jobs using groovy
Administration experience of other DevOps tools like SonarQube, Git, Checkmarx etc will be good to have
Experience with Flyway DB and integrating it with Jenkins
Should have experience with integration tools with Jenkins as part of pipeline setup
Hands on experience with git concepts and ability to resolve conflicts
Hands on experience in Docker and Kubernetes
Should have experience creating docker files, deployment and service yaml
Hands on experience with OpenShift will be good to have