Senior DevOps Engineer

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About The Role

Our client, a leading provider of payment services and technology is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer for their Leawood, KS headquarters.

Responsibilities

• Help define the future of and contribute directly to infrastructure reliability.
• Ensure high uptime (99.98%) of our platform, performance, and scalability by leading the architecture, deployment, automation, maintenance, and management of mission-critical production systems.
• Work closely with our Software Development and Engineering teams to build platforms before they go live, building a reliable production-ready services and applications. Manage major incidents to mitigation/resolution, perform post-incident reviews of all major incidents and determine action items required to avoid similar issues/minimize downtime for future incidents.
• Work with Software Development and Engineering teams to ensure that assigned applications/platforms have appropriate monitoring and metrics in place to measure performance and stability, appropriately.
• Build tools and automation that eliminate work and reduce the time it takes to resolve an issue for public cloud and on-premises resources.
• Staying calm under pressure
• Coach team members, provide knowledge transfer to coworkers and encourage
• acquisition of new skills.
• Provide rotational on-call support where you'll respond, detect, triage and resolve
• production incidents
• Meet all information security best practices to ensure all compliance requirements are met

Requirements

• Well-rounded engineering background
• Experienced with containers, container orchestration using Kubernetes
• Knowledge with container orchestration - Kubernetes
• Experience with some Infrastructure Automation like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet/Foreman
• Strong knowledge on AWS technologies: Global Accelerator, ALB, NLB, EKS, EC2, VPC, S3, RDS or equivalent experience on (Google Cloud / Microsoft Azure)
• Solid scripting skills; experience with Shell, Bash, Ansible, Python, PowerShell, Ruby.
• Experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines (GitHub or Azure DevOps)
• Experience with monitoring tools like Nagios, Icinga, SolarWinds, New Relic, Grafana
• Strong knowledge of Linux and/or Windows operating systems and environment
• Strong knowledge of Networking, Load balancers, DNS, NTP and TCP/IP
• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills
• A willingness to learn on the job and take on tasks as needed