AWS DevOps Engineer

Vaco has partnered with a client in the banking world to fill a key role as an AWS DevOps Engineer. In this role, you will play a key role on a small team that is responsible for overseeing, managing, and working to expand the Bank's AWS environment to meet the needs of our technology-forward bank. You will be a critical team member with the opportunity to accelerate the Bank's existing momentum on AWS and build out the online/mobile banking capabilities. You would possess exceptional project management and execution skills, strong oral and written communication capabilities, is highly organized, self-driven, and has the desire and ability to succeed in a fast-paced, collegial, small-team setting. This is an urgent need, and we are looking to start interviews immediately with our client. If you are interested in learning more please reach out to the Vaco team today.

Core Responsibilities

Execute all operational activities of the Applications department.

Support the strategic direction and the design of technology, infrastructure, software, and communications and networking systems, including the implementation and integration of external and internal business processing systems and applications.

Provide on-call support after-hours, weekend, and outside of general working hours for the Digital Bank operations.

Emphasis on MKS and EKS.

Deploying, managing, and operating an AWS multi-account environment.

Work alongside systems and development teams to support the transition and operation of applications in and out of AWS.

Identifying appropriate use of AWS operational best practices.

Estimating AWS costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms.

Proactively keep management up to date on AWS services and developments.

Create (where appropriate) automation to streamline provisioning and de-provisioning processes.

Be a technical resource on data/service migration projects.

Assist contract and in-house staff on AWS administrative tasks.

Configuration of the AWS cloud management; Configure and fine-tune the cloud infrastructure systems; monitoring and managing cloud services carefully.

Understanding of AWS metrics and monitoring resources.

Assist in the creation and maintenance of high-quality documentation (primarily Visio diagrams) for relevant specifications, systems, policies, procedures, and plans as they pertain to IT.

Integrate and work with third-party hardware, software, and service vendor relationships.

Promote cybersecurity awareness, assist in training, testing, and the use of best practices.

Keep technical documentation up to date.

Position Qualifications

General:

5+ years of Systems Administration.

Expertise managing security within an AWS master payer account environment and for Linux systems. This includes implementing security groups and network ACLs, configuring Linux server security, and experience with AWS security services like AWS Shield, Detective, Security Hub, WAF, and especially IAM.

Expertise building, deploying, and maintaining AWS microservices (MKS/Kafka) applications on Kubernetes using EKS.

Experience building, deploying, and maintaining AWS API Gateway.

High comfort level running command-line operations.

Experience building scripts, tooling, and automation for large-scale computing environments.

Experience developing and maintaining network and systems diagrams and documentation.

Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.

Highly organized and efficient, able to work with all levels of staff in all bank areas.

Detail-oriented, a team player with excellent time management skills.

Must be able to adjust quickly to changing priorities and conditions.

Proven ability to meet deadlines while thoroughly completing projects and assignments.

Experience with Database administration (SQL, MariaDB/MySQL, Amazon RDS, Aurora ) is a plus.

Experience with automating CI/CD pipelines using native AWS services such as CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy. Comparable experience with Jenkins or Ansible is also considered.

Experience with Git,Github,GitLab, including experience with CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and issue tracking. Gitlab preferred.

AWS:

Preferred Certifications or equivalent work experience:

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

AWS Certified Developer

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Four years of experience in working in AWS environments.

Experience deploying and maintaining AWS multi-account infrastructure (AWS Config, AWS CloudFormation StackSets)

Knowledge of monitoring and auditing systems in AWS (CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Cost Explorer, Systems Manager)

Familiar with AWS networking services (VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Route Tables, Subnets, Security Groups, Load Balancers)

Experience with designing, deploying, and managing AWS storage solutions, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS).

Experience deploying and maintaining Infrastructure as Code with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) using YAML, JSON, CloudFormation, and CDK. Comparable experience with Terraform is also considered.

Experience in developing, deploying, and managing AWS Lambda functions.

Experience in configuring, managing, and monitoring AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall), including AWS-managed and custom rules.

Linux:

Three years of system administration for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux/CentOS)

Comfortable troubleshooting and writing Bash scripts or Python.