Key skills

Windows system administrationLinux system administrationUnix system administrationNetworking concepts and protocolsAWS EC2AWS ELBAWS RDSAWS S3AWS ECSAWS EKSAWS SSMAWS CloudFormationTerraformInfrastructure-as-CodeDockerDC/OSKubernetesTectonicOpenShiftAnsibleGitHubJenkinsAWS Well-Architected FrameworkCloudWatchNagiosGraphiteSolarWindsPagerDutyIISTomcatApacheElasticsearchNGINXhaproxyAWS API scriptingGo programmingBash scriptingPython programmingShell scriptingPowerShell scriptingAzure REST APISource control toolingCI/CD toolingITIL/ITSM security managementCustomer service orientationPythonGoShellBashPowerShellAWSAzureECSEKSCloudFormationEC2S3RDSSource ControlCI/CD

About this role

Strategic Systems Inc is seeking a DevOps Engineer responsible for supporting the infrastructure for all platforms and applications. The role involves ensuring platform reliability, managing deployments, and collaborating with IT team members to resolve issues.

Responsibilities:

Growing, contributing and supporting the infrastructure for all platforms and applications
Ensure that all platforms are healthy and reliable
Ensure that alerting and monitoring are in place for all systems
Manage production deployments across all platforms
Ensure deployments are a 'non-event'
Work closely with other IT team members, including the development team, to troubleshoot and resolve all hardware and software issues
Be part of a 24/7 on-call rotation

Requirements:

7+ years SYSADMIN experience with Windows/Linux/Unix operating systems or cloud platforms: system administration, networking concepts and protocols & programming skills
Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
Comfortable working in a production environment requiring 24x7 support and being part of an on-call rotation
Strong experience with deploying, configuring, scaling, monitoring, and securing AWS EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, ECS, EKS, and SSM
Experience with AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, or similar Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platforms, familiarity with IaC principles
Experience with Container solutions. Docker, DC/OS, Kubernetes, Tectonic, OpenShift or similar
Strong experience using DevOps tooling in the AWS environment including Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins, or similar
Experience designing AWS solutions inside the AWS Well-Architected Framework
Strong experience monitoring and alerting solutions, and used tools such as CloudWatch, Nagios, Graphite, SolarWinds, PagerDuty, etc
Strong experience with Web application technology: IIS, Tomcat, Apache, Elasticsearch, NGINX, haproxy, etc
Exceptional customer service orientation
Ability to deliver high quality documentation paying attention to detail
Scripting and automation experience: AWS API, GO, Bash, Python, Shell, PowerShell, Azure REST, or similar
Experience with source control tooling, CI/CD tooling, and team management tooling
Familiarity with ITIL/ITSM security management concepts and best practices