Sr. DevOps Engineer

SWBC is a cutting-edge financial services company seeking a high-performing Sr. DevOps Engineer to support critical customer-facing platforms. The role involves improving deployment practices, managing AWS infrastructure, and ensuring cloud-based architectures meet availability and recoverability requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Delivering excellence to our Software Engineering teams, empowering them to maximize development velocity while simultaneously enforcing best practices and security standards
• Ownership, architecture, and management of AWS infrastructure components such as Lambda, ECS, etc
• Building with a mind for both security and compliance
• Deploying to AWS via GitHub-based source control and CI/CD pipeline design
• Owning the technical design, and implementation of the automation technologies required for deploying, maintaining and operating cloud infrastructure
• Creating the policies and procedures for properly supporting our rapidly growing microservice architecture
• Ensuring cloud-based architectures meet availability and recoverability requirements
• Implementation of cloud-based monitoring and alerting
• Find scalability bottlenecks and areas for performance improvements
• Identify and execute on opportunities to help set the standard for excellence in cloud infrastructure design and automation
• Active monitoring of risks to site SLAs and overall delivery

Requirements:

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, Developer) required
• At least three (3) years managing AWS infrastructure
• At least five (5) years DevOps engineering experience
• At least three (3) years CDK or CloudFormation
• At least three (3) years Github CI/CD
• A strong software engineering or programming background. Any language is acceptable but prefer experience with Python, C#, or .NET
• Proven experience with industry standard monitoring and alerting tools
• Proficiency with Docker, ECS, and microservice architecture in general
• Proficiency with log aggregation tools such as ELK or Splunk
• Architecting and deploying advanced cloud infrastructures within AWS
• Solid understanding of web services, databases and related infrastructure/architectures
• Solid understanding of backup/restore best practices
• Release software through tooling (Azure DevOps, Github Actions, Jenkins, etc)
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Experience supporting an enterprise-level technology environment
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication, and documentation skills
• Demonstrable experience with cloud security fundamentals
• Excellent collaboration skills across various business units
• "Can do" attitude with a penchant for getting things done on time and on budget