Start date: ASAP
Duration: 12 Months
Location: 1 week in Galway office, 3 weeks working from home
Rate: €475 - €525 per day
Summary:
As a senior member of the TechOps SRE team, you'll work closely with our engineering partners to help enable and drive initiatives from design to implementation. Our highly available multi-region Kubernetes (AWS EKS) environments are best-in-class and central to our enterprise-grade infrastructure strategy. These growing environments currently support numerous mission-critical workloads. In this exciting role, you’ll have the opportunity to further develop and refine your skills, collaborate across numerous Fidelity teams, and continue to grow in a fun, collaborative, and rapidly changing environment. This is a phenomenal opportunity to have a direct impact on the emerging strategies of our infrastructure and deployments, while at the same time, helping enable the expansion of our business.
Skills:
- 5 years of hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment
- Experience building and deploying Docker images.
- Experience migrating applications from other container orchestration solutions (such as ECS) to Kubernetes preferably on EKS.
- Production experience running Kubernetes workloads ideally on AWS EKS
- Experience managing and maintaining Kubernetes Clusters on AWS EKS
- Experience with Confluent or Kafka
- Experience creating and deploying Helm charts & libraries.
- Hands-on experience with Jenkins Core, including authoring and maintaining declarative CI/CD pipelines and libraries.
- Experience with monitoring tools e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog & Splunk Cloud
- Proficiency with UNIX operating systems and shell scripting
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), having managed services and applications in a large AWS cross-account environment using IAM and federated SSO.
- Experience crafting and maintaining logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilities using tools like Datadog and Splunk
- Ability to communicate at all levels with track record of strong written and verbal communications.
- See problems as opportunities to automate.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction.
- Drive and champion the overall design of highly available, secure, scalable microservices-based applications in AWS.
- Track record of providing technical leadership to strong teams of Site Reliability Engineers / Cloud Engineers
- Experience with configuring and deploying resilient infrastructure in multiple regions and multiple availability zones.
- Work multi-functionally with other organizations and collaborate with our risk, product and engineering team leaders.
- Leading the initiative to craft and deploy our applications to the cloud.
- Promoting a DevOps mentality, providing mentorship and establishing development standard methodologies for AWS infrastructure-as-code
- Championing automation tools to improve software delivery and reduce risk.
- Production experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC), Terraform preferred.
- Programming experience, e.g., Python preferred.
- Experience with distributed version control systems, Git preferred.
- Experience with Apache or Confluent Kafka a plus.
- Experience with the agile software development lifecycle and Kanban preferred.
- Experience with CDN Providers e.g., Akamai preferred.
