Job Description

JOB TITLE:

DevOps Engineer

LOCATION:

Owings Mills, MD (2 days onsite, 3 days remote. Must be onsite day 1)

DESCRIPTION:

Compass Pointe has partnered with a global financial company in the Owings Mills, MD area that is looking for a DevOps Engineer. The main function of the Engineer is to design, develop, implement, test, and maintain business and computer applications software.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Automating manual platform management processes through Ansible or other scripting tools/languages.
• Support platform upgrades, migration including coordinating testing of upgrades with users of the platform.
• Coordinating and collaborating with users of the platform.
• Develop training and documentation materials.
• Executing disaster recovery playbooks.
• Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose complex issues.
• Able to demonstrate experience supporting technical users and conduct requirements analysis.
• Can work independently with minimal guidance & oversight.
• Experience with IT Service Management and familiarity with Incident & Problem management. 
• Experience in using Git based DevOps processes.
• Develop training and documentation materials.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in container orchestration solutions with Kubernetes, AWS ECS/EKS/Fargate.
• 3+ years of experience within the Amazon Web Services platform or GCP or Azure.
• Strong infrastructure engineering experience.
• Cloud application architecture – Microservices and REST. 
• Docker container development experience.
• Experience with Python and Terraform.
• Experience in designing, developing, and deploying cloud-based solutions using AWS.
• 5+ years of systems design, programming, implementation, and integration experience.
• A solid core foundation in infrastructure and systems engineering including Unix/Linux, networking, storage, and monitoring stacks. 
• Experience developing micro services in both multi-tenant and dedicated micro service runtime environments.  Is familiar with the Open Container Initiative and both docker and container runtimes. 
• Off-hour implementations and on call rotations are required.
• Demonstrate proficiency with scripting and automation (bash, python, other programming languages).
• Experience within Apigee or another API management platform.
• Experience using Gitlab.
• Experience with large platform migration efforts.
• Experience with AWS API Gateway.