Lead AWS DevOps Engineer in N-iX

About the project:

Our customer is the leading school transportation provider in North America, being the owner of more than a half of all yellow school buses in the United States. Every day, the company completes 5 million student journeys, moving more passengers than all U.S. airlines combined and delivers reliable, quality services for 1,100 school districts.

N-iX has built a successful cooperation with the client delivering a range of complex initiatives. As a result, N-iX has been selected as a strategic long-term partner to drive the digital transformation on an enterprise level, fully remodeling the technology landscape for 55,000 employees and millions of people across North America.

Responsibilities:

- Work on deployment strategies and automation for cloud-native applications

- Design standards for CI/CD and build pipeline automation

- Setting the tone and style of automating processes and implementing them (independently and with the help of other people from different teams)

- Work on implementing application monitoring and logging strategies using tools like DataDog, Cloudwatch

- Maintain and improve a common infrastructure shared by product teams

- Optimize our environments with a focus on security, agility, and team productivity

- Work towards introducing desirable features into your work: automation, HA, scalability, monitoring, and security

- Design and implement build and deploy pipelines, and promote these approaches to other teams

- Coach and collaborate with product teams to improve their infrastructure and AWS best practices

- Close cooperation with developers to improve their work in terms of infrastructure and automated processes

- Analysis of costs for resources and their optimization

- Lead a DevOps guild across our project 

- Follow SDLC and Agile/Iterative practices

Requirements:

- At least 6 years of DevOps expertise with a focus on the AWS stack

- Experience to build CD/CD and SDLC process for Java from scratch

- Deep knowledge of Linux systems administration

- Monitoring and Alerting

- Possesses a solid understanding of modern web application architecture, TCP/IP, HTTP, and complex cloud network and security topologies

- Solid experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS (ECS cluster with Fargate), S3, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, Route53, AWS Transit Gateway (creation, maintenance), etc.

- Security by design mindset

- Solid knowledge of relational databases, NoSQL databases, and in-memory databases

- Deep expertise in monitoring, logging, and management tools or services that integrate with AWS (CloudWatch, DataDog)

- Strong experience in ECS and microservices

- Proven experience in designing and implementing build pipelines in a CI/CD environment

- Proven skills in Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform)

- AWS Cloud Development Kit

- Application Load Balancers (ALB) settings, troubleshooting

- Excellent scripting skills using Bash or Python

- Experience in AWS based CI/CD infrastructure would be a plus (CodeCommit, CodePipeline, CodeArtifact)

- Solid understanding of SDLC

- Confident knowledge of Agile methodologies

- Technical leadership experience is a must

- Excellent oral and written communication skills

- Conversational English level (B2)