Lead AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer, Shift4

• 7+ years of solid DevOps experience to include working with AWS infrastructure and services
• 3+ years of experience leading teams or technical projects
• 5+ years of experience in modern CI/CD technologies like Gitlab or Github
• 3+ years of hands-on professional experience working with container orchestration platforms with Kubernetes or Amazon EKS in production environment
• 3+ years of experience with Terraform within a large scale setup
• Ability to be attentive to details and show aptitude for problem solving
• Experience with Agile project delivery
• Ability to ensure that high uptime requirements are met and issues are handled in a proactive manner
• Great interpersonal, verbal and written skills including documentation of complex technical solutions
• An aptitude to work collaboratively or solo if required and have the willingness to change tasks and priorities when necessary
• Strong sense of urgency and wants to be part of a highly productive team that successfully delivers products timely on a continual basis

Desirable

• We are looking for a key Lead AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer to join our team with experience in leadership and/or technical management who can lead a team, manage projects, delegate tasks and is very much technically hands-on
• This key individual will be responsible for the infrastructure and services that empower our customers to run their businesses
• Milliseconds matter in an environment dealing with many thousands of requests per second and we must adapt and scale to handle an ever-growing volume of traffic across a diverse ecosystem of products and services
• Design and implement Cloud infrastructure for our mission critical cloud platforms using AWS technologies and best practices
• Lead team of senior and mid-level engineers across disparate geographic locations, manage projects, delegate tasks and mentor others
• Implement infrastructure as code capabilities for our complex cloud environments
• Ensure the reliability and stability of application platforms by implementing observability, monitoring, alerts and dashboards for critical components
• Collaborate closely with engineers and other team members to achieve elegant solutions which satisfy business needs, goals and objectives
• Build and provide recommendations for monitoring processes across engineering teams
• Diagnose and resolve issues with deployed and/or released systems using a variety of techniques
• Be the first line of defense and response when it comes to production outages
• Coordinate with development teams for frequent production releases
• Responsible for supporting a SaaS based business model