DevOps Engineer

Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or a closely related field
• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, with at least 1/2 years in Linux / Unix
• Very strong in core CS concepts around operating systems, networks, and systems architecture including web services
• Strong scripting experience in Python and Bash
• Deep experience administering, running, and deploying AWS-based services
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, redis, Elasticache (OpenSearch), Neptune internals, performance tuning, query optimization, and indexing strategies
• Experience with Aurora, redis, Elasticache, Neptune architecture, including replication, failover, and backup/restore mechanisms
• Familiarity with AWS services commonly used with above services (e.g., RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, Lambda)
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery solutions like Aurora, OpenSearch, Neptune, Redis
• Experience with database migration tools like AWS DMS, pg_dump, or logical replication.
• Solid experience with Terraform, Packer, and Docker or their equivalents
• Knowledge of security protocols and certificate infrastructure.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Broad experience with cloud-hosted applications including virtualization platforms, relational and non-relational data stores, reverse proxies, and orchestration platforms
• Curiosity, continuous learning, and drive to continually raise the bar
• Strong partnering and communication skills

Great to have Experience and Qualifications

• Past experience as a senior developer or application architect is strongly preferred.
• Experience working with, and preferably designing, a system compliant to any security framework (PCI DSS, ISO 27000, HIPPA, SOC 2, ...)