Staff Devops Engineer

Job Description

Your New Role...

This role is a Senior DevOps Engineer that is a part of the Global Infrastructure Core Technologies (GICT) Cloud Team. This role manages infrastructure on behalf of several WBD business units. This includes new infrastructure development, migrations, support, and maintenance. You will be exposed to a variety of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and develop best practices for running applications in the cloud.

This individual will have a background in either Linux Systems Engineering or Application Software Engineering and has experience in the public cloud supporting high-traffic, public facing web applications.

Proficiency in Terraform or Cloud Formation for Infrastructure-as-Code is required. A deep understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and its requisite processes and tooling is required. Experience with containers and container orchestration is required. Experience in programming or scripting languages such as JavaScript, Java, Bash, Python, Ruby, PHP, etc. is highly encouraged.

Your Role Accountabilities...

1. Design, build and document cloud infrastructure for applications

2 Automate deployment pipelines

3. Automate Infrastructure deployments

4. Implement and improve monitoring and alerting

5. Security compliance and governance assessments

6. Production readiness assessments

7. Disaster recovery / business continuity planning and deployment

Qualifications & Experience...

Work Experience
• At least 6 years working experience in the Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.)
• Demonstrated excellence in and professional experience with DevOps fundamentals and Systems Engineering in Linux.
• Strong knowledge of automation methodologies, languages, and tooling.
• Solid familiarity with Systems Engineering, Operating systems, Networking concepts and Practical Systems Security.

Education & Certification
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or relevant field.
• Cloud certification helpful.

Knowledge/Skills
• Solid understanding of AWS services and products (EC2, ECS, Fargate, VPC, SQS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Capable of serving as a subject-matter expert in topics related to web hosting architecture, such as high availability, CI/CD, performance analysis, scaling, SSL, local and global load balancing, caching, and troubleshooting.
• Deep expertise in containerization and orchestration – Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate and Docker
• Fundamental understanding of networking including CIDR notation, the OSI model, TCP/IP, DNS, Internet routing.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and support to developers in designing and deploying modern solutions.
• Solid understanding of version control systems (git), including branching and merging strategies.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Node, PowerShell.
• Working knowledge of Terraform and CloudFormation for building Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong Linux administration and engineering background. Windows experience helpful.
Other Requirements
• Research new service integrations both internal to AWS and external.
• Develop Proof of Concepts for new applications and automation initiatives.
• Proficiency in developing and maintaining Terraform modules.
• Move quickly and intelligently - seeing technical debt as your nemesis.
• Ability to solve problems independently but knows when to request assistance.
• Strong action orientation

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r0on1e-216-73-216-195-42 in your application.