Sr. Lead DevOps Engineer

Solomon Page; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Solomon Page is looking for a DevOps Engineer in New York, NY, to enhance the cloud infrastructure of their products. You'll collaborate with application developers and IT professionals to automate operations and ensure system reliability and security.

The ideal candidate will bring at least 5 years of DevOps experience, expertise with Terraform, and strong knowledge of cloud services. A focus on optimizing performance and implementing security best practices is essential.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in a DevOps role.
• At least 2+ years of experience with Terraform.
• Expert knowledge of cloud concepts and services (EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, etc.).
• Expert level knowledge of Linux. Strong scripting skills for automation.
• Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve incidents.
• Good knowledge of database configuration and troubleshooting.
• Thorough understanding of security principles.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems.
• Implement and enforce security best practices.
• Collaborate with software developers to optimize performance.
• Participate in disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
• Provide system support on call.

Skills

DevOps experience

Terraform

Cloud services (EC2, ECS, S3, etc.)

Linux expertise

Scripting skills

Database knowledge

Security principles

Infrastructure-as-code tools

Containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Monitoring and logging tools

Excellent communication

Job description

As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in the development, implementation, and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure for our products. This position involves close collaboration with Application Developers, Data Engineers, SRE, Security, and IT professionals to automate and streamline operations and processes. Your contributions will be essential in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our systems and applications.

• Salary: $200k to $225k base

Core Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes.
• Effectively prioritize workload with a constant focus on increasing developer efficiency.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness. Experience with AWS is a plus.
• Work closely with SRE to develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of our systems and applications.
• Work closely with Security to implement and enforce security best practices across our infrastructure and applications.
• Collaborate with software developers to optimize application performance and reliability.
• Participate in the planning and execution of disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
• Effectively communicate with stakeholders to provide updates on project statuses, issues, and recommendations.
• Participate in on-call rotation to provide system support.

Core Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in a DevOps role.
• At least 2+ years of experience with Terraform.
• Expert knowledge of cloud concepts and services (EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, A/ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53 or equivalent).
• Expert level knowledge of Linux. Strong scripting skills for automation and tooling.
• Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, resolve & document RCA of incidents.
• Good knowledge of database configuration, concepts, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Thorough understanding of Security principles and experience in designing, implementing, monitoring proper controls.
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure-as-code & configuration management tools (Terraform, SaltStack or equivalent).
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS including managing microservices architectures.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions or equivalent.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Cloud Watch or equivalent.
• Excellent communication skill, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.