Senior DevOps Engineer

This role is responsible for our IT infrastructure strategy, direction, architecture, standards and management to include disaster recovery, security, systems, servers, monitoring, performance, networks and storage. This role must ensure reliable 24×7 operations and be a champion for our journey to Cloud (specifically AWS) and DevOps. This position will act as a liaison between IT Operations and other functions within IT (Application Development, Data Engineering) and outside IT (InfoSec, other business units as needed). This is a visible, strategic role tasked with building and maintaining a best in class IT Operations function that operates with a Cloud-first and DevOps mindset.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

Assess the IT infrastructure and operations organization (people, process, and technology) to determine best course of journey towards Cloud, specifically, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Management of container-based architecture (AWS ECS, Rancher and Kubernetes)
Assist the IT infrastructure and operations organization towards a primarily Cloud/AWS based operations
Assess the current deployment process to identify bottlenecks and assist in ideas and solutions towards a continuous deployment and continuous integration (CI/CD). Evangelize, implement, and manage a robust DevOps function
Implement and manage processes and controls that assure maximum uptime and quick service to the user community for both on-prem and Cloud workloads
Management and continual improvement of Cloud Operations, DevOps, and On-prem IT infrastructure/operations
Partner with InfoSec to deliver on key information security and IT risk related initiatives and ensure compliance to patching and vulnerability policies established within the organization
Develop and implement a robust Disaster Recovery strategy for critical systems and infrastructure
Assess single points of failure in infrastructure and recommend actions as appropriate
Establish service level agreements (SLAs) and operating level agreements in alignment with company objectives and customer needs
Design, implement, deploy and manage systems/applications monitoring processes and tools to proactively identify and resolve problems within the company computing environment
Negotiate and manage contracts with key service providers to ensure service levels are met. Furthermore, negotiate and manage enterprise contracts, specifically, AWS – the future environment and Microsoft – current environment is predominantly SQLServer and Windows
Establish standardized processes and key operational metrics based upon ITIL to effectively manage the performance of the Operations organization. This includes availability and performance of applications and servers, service desk ticket management, hardware, lifecycle management, license etc

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

Demonstrated experience transforming IT infrastructure and moving an organization toward a mature cloud-based (AWS) service delivery model
Strong Linux administration skills and fluency with bash
Strong familiarity with the LAMP/LEMP stack
Experience with managing on-prem workloads as well as migrating workloads to Cloud, specifically AWS while optimizing the cost of Cloud based workloads
Ability to continue to optimize the cost of Cloud based workloads once they are moved to AWS as part of overall infrastructure cost optimization
Possess experience in DevOps with proven results enabling continuous deployment and continuous integration (CI/CD)
Possess some experience and background in infrastructure architecture, systems administration, network administration and storage administration
Extensive experience with instrumentation, enterprise monitoring and reporting tools
Knowledgeable across a broad set of infrastructure platforms (commodity hardware, windows OS, Linux OS, etc)
Solid leadership skills in leading an IT infrastructure and operations organizations towards Cloud-first operations and DevOps mindset
Strong analytical capability and excellent verbal and written communication skills