Lead Devops Engineer

About The Role:
In this role as Lead DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Be responsible for building and supporting AWS infrastructure used to host a platform offering audit solutions.
• Plan, deploy, and maintain critical business applications in non-prod AWS environments.
• Design and implement appropriate environments for those applications, engineer suitable release management procedures and provide production support.
• Influence broader technology groups in adopting Cloud technologies, processes, and best practices.
• Drive improvements to processes and design enhancements to automation to continuously improve production environments.
• Maintain and contribute to our knowledge base and documentation.
• Provide leadership, technical support, user support, technical orientation, and technical education activities to project teams and staff.
• Manage change requests between development, staging, and production environments.
• Provision and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of automated processes.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, infrastructure upgrades, and resource optimization as required.
• Provide Tier II support for incidents and requests from various constituencies.
• Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
• Research, develop, and implement innovative and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks.

About You:
You are a fit for this position if your background includes:

• Deep knowledge of AWS cloud platform – s3, Cloudfront, Cloudformation, RDS, Opensearch, Active MQ, AWS EKS.
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD, preferably on AWS Developer tools, and Software Release Management concepts
• Scripting knowledge, preferably in Python / Bash.
• Knowledge on building and deploying containers / Kubernetes.
• Experience with build and deploying dotnet core / java-based solutions,
• Strong understanding on API first strategy.
• Knowledge and some experience implementing testing strategy in a continuous deployment environment.
• Have setup monitoring tools and disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity.
• Available for on-call support as needed (on rotation basis) to ensure business continuity.
• Ability to independently research and implement services on cloud platform and support the development teams as needed.