DevOps Engineer (Public Sector)
Summary
DevOps Engineer maintains cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring for a government project using AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC tools.
- 1-year contract, renewable
- Government project
- Hybrid work arrangement
We are seeking a talented and experienced DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in DevOps practices and a passion for automating software delivery processes. Candidates who have basic experience with backend development would be a plus.
What you will be working on:
- Contribute to the infrastructure roadmap and deliver critical infrastructure changes for the project
- Configure and maintain the CICD pipelines incorporating streamlined change and release management process
- Maintain tools for configuration management, build, continuous integration, and deployment, reporting, monitoring etc.
- Implement and operate monitoring and alerting tools
- Implement scripts to automate server, CICD and other relevant tasks
- Participate and implement capacity planning and risk management
- Explore and adopt new and creative DevOps approaches to improve production reliability and availability
- Implement security practices that comply with standards to protect the organization's data & infrastructure
- Manage the operations of cloud infrastructure and application services
- Working in highly collaborative teams and building quality environments
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure, fast paced environment
What we are looking for:
- 5+ years of relevant DevOps experience
- Familiarity with scripting languages and automation tools
- Hands-on experience working on AWS in an enterprise environment
- Hands-on experience with containerization using Docker, and ECS/Kubernetes
- Good understanding of virtualization and networking concepts
- Hands-on experience with configuration management systems such as Terraform, Packer and Ansible
- Familiarity with GitOps and automating provisioning with IaC best practices
- Hands-on experience in linux server administration, and shell scripting with Bash, and good to have other scripting languages
- Knowledge in system architecture is a plus
- Has knowledge with Observability tooling such as Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, ELK
- Experience with highly scalable distributed systems
- Breadth of knowledge - OS, networking, distributed computing, cloud computing
- Strong technical aptitude including excellent troubleshooting and communications skills
- Good understanding and working knowledge of Agile projects such as SCRUM and KANBAN