DevOps Engineer (AWS) in Kognitiv in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Job Overview

DevOps Engineer (AWS)

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Building and setting up new development environments and infrastructure
• Deploying product updates, identifying production issues and implementing integrations that meet our customers’ needs
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• Ensure all Development Assets and Development Environments comply with Global Security Policies and Standards
• Ensuring that systems developed are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Provide Level 2 technical support
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Investigate and resolve technical issues
• Design procedures for system maintenance and troubleshooting
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended

Who are you?

We are looking for a talented team player who has a strong background working for a technology-driven business, and who displays the following skills, knowledge, and attributes:

Background and Experience:

• Bachelors level qualifications in Computer Systems Engineering, Information Security, Information Technology or any Professional Certification in related disciplines
• 2-4 years of Industry experience in Systems Engineering or DevOps role
• 1-2 years of hands-on experience with cloud technologies, preferably Microsoft and AWS
• Very strong Docker/Vagrant (Docker Swarm, Kubernetes or Mesos)
• Strong Linux/Unix, Windows Server administration skills
• Cloud server management with AWS and Azure
• Experience using Continuous Integration with software such as Jenkins
• Automation (Puppet, Chef or Salt), Scripting (Bash, Python, Ruby)
• Automated backups and Disaster recovery
• Database Management (MySQL/Postgres)
• Experience deploying, configuring and troubleshooting Apache/Tomcat/NGINX
• Very good Networking Knowledge (HTTP/TCP/UDP)
• Comfortable building dashboards based on Grafana and Kibana and gathering actionable insights
• Server monitoring (New Relic and Nagios)
• Working knowledge of, Elasticsearch, Redis and RabbitMQ, Terraform, CloudFormation
• Understanding and experience in Build tools such as Jenkins, CI/CD practices & version control technologies such as GITHUB
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and possessing a clear understanding of various automation tools for developing digital pipelines (CI/ CD pipelines)

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