Cloud DevOps Engineer

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

The DevOps Engineer is a technical professional who leverages their expertise in design, development, testing, implementation, and support of the Cloud platform ecosystem, to streamline development and deployment of applications using modern DevOps practices.

The level of work required is considered intermediate and staff must be able to work under general supervision.

This job does not have direct reports.



* Support the design, development, and management of Cloud platform ecosystems and infrastructure


* Works closely with software development teams and other functional groups to assist in the development of a robust, flexible, and scalable platform


* Assists in the design and development of automated deployment tooling and infrastructure, code management, orchestration deployment, testing, and monitoring


* Participate in the development of common components and templates for resources deployed in Cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code


* Integrate on premise solutions with Cloud resources


* Build out solutions based on security, monitoring, logging, and alerting requirements


* Coordinate technical and end-user resources to execute moderately complex tests and analyze testing results.


* Provides assistance and technical support regarding architectural and procedural best practices both across departments and applications including rotational on call support


* Maintains technical documentation for designs and operational procedures


* Identifies opportunities for automation of operational tasks to increase efficiency and lower the human intervention of repetitive activities.


* Contributes to a culture of continuous improvement and proactively searches for ways to apply DevOps tooling and practices to increase productivity of engineering and operations teams

Your Background


* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent background or experience


* 2-3 years of experience working with cloud based platforms in an enterprise environment


* 2-3 years software engineering experience in a team based environment 


* Experience with programming tools, computer interfaces, and application architectures


* Experience deploying, managing, operating and monitoring of applications in scalable, highly available and fault tolerant data centers (both on-premise and hosted), AWS


* Experience learning, sharing, and implementing best practices with the ability to define operational processes, implement DevOps, deployment checklists


* Experience with Python or Node.js


* Experience with source code management tools; Git


* Experience developing solutions in an iterative (Agile) approach


* Experience with Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery tools and technologies; GitLab, CloudFormation, Terraform


* Basic knowledge and experience of scripting languages


* Knowledge of basi...