Head of DevOps

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the CI/CD build stack for internal Infrastructure and Development teams
• Continually improve the onboarding, adoption and time to consumption by writing and developing automation routines pulling the DevOps tooling into a transparent service offering
• Create reporting modules and dashboards on CI/CD usage, audits, deployment status and queue management
• Actively work with Development, Operations and QA on issues and gaps solution design and implementation
• Build solutions and basic dashboards with standard full-stack webapp tiers (LAMP, MEAN- that is, Linux, Apache, Nginx, Perl/PHP, Node/Express, Mongo/MySQL).
• Contributes to platform specification and design of next generation tooling and orchestration engines
• Exploiting cloud technologies to their full potential. You know how to navigate Amazon Web Services and how to use their services.
• You know what RESTful APIs are and can disambiguate between a 200, or 201 request, name and know GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.
• Understanding what it means to be effective first and efficient second.
• Communicate complex ideas and concepts in a clear and articulate manner.
• You understand what minimum viable product means and can deliver incrementally and fast with quality.
• Challenging the status quo in a collaborative fashion and be willing abandon efforts and directions that aren't paying off. Test and Learn is second nature to you.

Critical Skills

Experience with the following Cloud specific functions:

• Account provisioning
• VPC setup & management
• AMI management and distribution
• Security Groups
• Guardrails
• Naming / Tagging standards
• CloudTrail, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Cloud Watch, Cloud Health
• Key management
• Secret standards
• Role Based Access Control implementation and management.

Basic Qualification: (Required Education & Experience)

• 7 - 10 years' experience in automation, engineering and operations
• 5 years' in creating and consuming web services.
• Cloud Suite and Services such as Amazon Web Services

Preferred Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in business or information systems.
• 5 years' experience managing cloud environments, AWS preferred. (EC2 instances, ELB's, Route 53, Cloud Watch etc.....
• 5 years' experience scripting with Python and BASH.
• 5 years' experience with some of the following Cloud automation tools:
  • Kubernetes & supporting technologies (e.g. Etcd, flanneld)
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • Puppet / Foreman, Chef
  • Ansible
  • Github
  • Jenkins
  • Artifactory
  • Stash
  • Vault
  • Consul.io

Challenging the status quo in a collaborative fashion and be willing abandon efforts and directions that aren't paying off. Test and Learn is second nature to you.

Physical Demands:

• Must be able to remains in a stationary position more than 25% of the time.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include without limitation, the ability to observe details at close range (within a few feet of the instrument), distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus in order to perform the essential service functions of this position.
• Occasionally operates a computer and other office machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer