AWS DevOps Engineer

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:  Forbright Bank is a full-service bank, commercial lender, and asset manager headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Forbright is a banking and financing visionary leader in clean energy, healthcare, technology, financial services, real estate, and other industries with extraordinary service.

COMPANY CULTURE:  We are a dynamic, high energy, fun, and fast-paced organization that has an exciting growth trajectory, meaningful mission, and embedded responsible environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices into our daily interactions. We offer our team members a culture of collaboration, inclusion, flexibility, recognition, and giving back.  We look to hire individuals that are passionate about our mission, and who are motivated, customer and results-oriented, innovative, adaptable, and thoughtful.

COMPANY MISSION:  We are a values-driven institution with an uncommon commitment to decarbonization and sustainability. As the need to build a more sustainable, low-carbon economic system grows increasingly urgent, we are dedicating half of our assets to financing the companies, investors, and innovators driving that change. We are reimagining how a bank should operate in a changing world.

JOB SUMMARY:  The AWS DevOps Engineer is responsible for overseeing, managing, and working to expand the Bank’s AWS environment to meet the needs of our technology-forward bank. The AWS DevOps Engineer is a critical team member with the opportunity to accelerate the bank’s existing momentum on AWS. This individual possesses 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.

DUTIES AND 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.
• Deploying, managing, and operating AWS environments.
• 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.
• Provide after-hours, weekend, and on-call support on an as-needed basis outside of general working hours.

QUALIFICATIONS:

General:

• Minimum of 5 years of Systems Administration.
• Experience with Database administration ( SQL/MariaDB/Amazon RDS/Aurora ) is a plus.
• Experience with automating CI/CD pipelines, Git.
• Comfortable to expert in 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.

AWS:

• Preferred Certifications or equivalent work experience:
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
  • AWS Certified Developer
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• Over two years of experience in working with AWS environments.
• Knowledge of monitoring and auditing systems in AWS (CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Cost Explorer, Systems Manager)
• Familiar with AWS networking and storage solutions.
• Experience in cloud operations (YAML, JSON, LAMBDA, Cloudformation, and Terraform)
• Experience deploying and maintenance of AWS-multi account infrastructure ( AWS Config, AWS CloudFormation StackSets )

Linux:

• Two or more years of system administration for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux/CentOS)
• Comfortable troubleshooting and writing Bash scripts or Python.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:  The requirements described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable employees to perform the essential functions. Work is conducted primarily in an office; however, some positions may be conducted remotely via technology. While performing duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required for prolonged periods of time to:

• Sit or stand at a desk
• Walk, stoop down, crouch, kneel or bend over
• Use hands and fingers
• Utilize a computer monitor with visual acuity
• Operate technology and other office machinery such as printers, fax machines, scanners, etc.
• Communicate clearly both verbally and in writing with others

ADDITIONAL DUTIES: For Forbright Bank to remain efficient and nimble as a growing organization, team members are expected to exhibit a high level of flexibility regarding any duties that may be situationally assigned outside of this job description.

PERKS/BENEFITS:
-Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
-4 weeks PTO
-401k company match
-Metro SmartTrip benefits ($50/mo)
-Remote or hybrid work schedules for most positions
-Bonuses for purchasing solar panels, electric vehicles, biking to work, etc.
-Paid subscriptions to Veterans Compost, Imperfect Foods and more!

Forbright Bank is committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity as a fundamental value. We welcome employees with a range of experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives.
Forbright Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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