Principal TechOps Engineer

Job Description:

As a principal member of the TechOps SRE team, you'll work closely with our engineering partners to help enable and drive initiatives from design to implementation. Our highly available multi-region Kubernetes (AWS EKS) environments are best-in-class and central to our enterprise-grade infrastructure strategy. These growing environments currently support numerous mission-critical workloads. In this exciting role, you’ll have the opportunity to further develop and refine your skills, collaborate across numerous teams, and continue to grow in a fun, collaborative, and rapidly changing environment. This is a phenomenal opportunity to have a direct impact on the emerging strategies of our infrastructure and deployments, while at the same time, helping enable the expansion of our business.

The Skills and Expertise You Bring

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment
• Experience building and deploying Docker images
• Experience migrating applications from other container orchestration solutions (such as ECS) to Kubernetes preferably on EKS
• Production experience running Kubernetes workloads ideally on AWS EKS
• Experience managing and maintaining Kubernetes Clusters on AWS EKS
• Experience with Confluent or Kafka
• Experience creating and deploying Helm charts & libraries
• Hands-on experience with Jenkins Core, including authoring and maintaining declarative CI/CD pipelines and libraries
• Experience with monitoring tools e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog & Splunk Cloud
• Proficiency with UNIX operating systems and shell scripting
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), having managed services and applications in a large AWS cross-account environment using IAM and federated SSO
• Experience crafting and maintaining logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilities using tools like Datadog and Splunk
• Ability to communicate at all levels with track record of strong written and verbal communications
• See problems as opportunities to automate
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction
• Drive and champion the overall design of highly available, secure, scalable microservices-based applications in AWS
• Track record of providing technical leadership to strong teams of Site Reliability Engineers / Cloud Engineers
• Experience with configuring and deploying resilient infrastructure in multiple regions and multiple availability zones
• Work multi-functionally with other organizations and collaborate with our risk, product and engineering team leaders
• Leading the initiative to craft and deploy our applications to the cloud
• Promoting a DevOps mentality, providing mentorship and establishing development standard methodologies for AWS infrastructure-as-code
• Championing automation tools to improve software delivery and reduce risk
• Production experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC), Terraform preferred
• Programming experience, e.g., Python preferred
• Experience with distributed version control systems, Git preferred
• Experience with Apache or Confluent Kafka a plus
• Experience with the agile software development lifecycle and Kanban preferred
• Experience with CDN Providers e.g., Akamai preferred