Staff AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer

Overview

Staff AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer

This role is an onsite / hybrid role based at any of the Shift4 core locations: Center Valley, PA (HQ), Las Vegas, NV, Tampa, FL, Morrisville, NC, and Atlanta, GA. Relocation assistance may be available. 

Responsibilities:

Are you a DevOps engineer & want to be part of something really challenging?

We are looking for a key Staff AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer to join the team responsible for the infrastructure and services that empower our customers to run their businesses. Milliseconds matter in an environment dealing with many thousands of requests per second and we must adapt and scale to handle an ever-growing volume of traffic across a diverse ecosystem of products and services.

• Design and implement Cloud infrastructure for our mission critical cloud platforms using AWS technologies and best practices.
• Implement Infrastructure as code capabilities for our complex Cloud environments.
• Ensure the reliability and stability of application platforms by implementing observability, monitoring, alerts and dashboards for critical components.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, and other team members to achieve elegant solutions which satisfy business needs, goals, and objectives.
• Build and provide recommendations for monitoring processes across engineering teams.
• Diagnose and resolve issues with deployed and/or released systems using a variety of techniques.
• Be the first line of defense and response when it comes to production outages.
• Coordinate with development teams for frequent production releases.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years DevOps experience to include working with AWS infrastructure and services.
• 3+ years of experience working with container technology
• 3+ years of hand-on experience working with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and Amazon EKS
• 3+ years of experience with Terraform
• Be attentive to details and show aptitude for problem solving
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP
• Experience with Agile project delivery
• Strives to ensure that high uptime requirements are met and issues are handled in a proactive manner
• Great interpersonal, verbal and written skills including documentation of complex technical solutions
• Can work collaboratively or solo if required and have the willingness to change tasks and priorities when necessary
• Driven and wants to be part of a highly productive team that delivers products on a continual basis 

Desired Qualifications (Skills that are a plus to have):

• 5+ years working with CI/CD tooling, hands on experience with GitLab 
• Strong AWS cloud engineering experience. 
• Experience integrating monitoring tools into application support
• Experience working with distributed cloud deployments
• Certifications with any of the following is a plus: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  or Certified DevOps Developer - Master (CDCD-001) 

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