Lead DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Summary:

The Lead DevOps/Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our Cloud infrastructure with our team of talented DevOps engineers. The Lead DevOps/Cloud Engineer will lead initiatives to drive efficiency, scalability, and reliability across our software development lifecycle.

Wage Type: Salaried

This position is available as a remote or on-site assignment.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each of the essential duties satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Assist in the development and execution of a comprehensive DevOps strategy aligned with the organization's goals and objectives.
• Break down DevOps related feature requests into user stories for use in team and program-based agile planning.
• Emphasize and ensure the effective execution of organized sprints and agile methodologies. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to plan, prioritize, and execute sprints and releases efficiently.
• Design and architect cloud solutions that meet scalability, performance, and security requirements.
• Lead and mentor a team of cloud engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Actively promote DevOps Culture across the Engineering and Product teams.
• Oversee the implementation of cloud infrastructure and services, ensuring adherence to best practices and standards.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize applications for cloud environments.
• Implement robust monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively identify and resolve performance issues, security vulnerabilities, and system failures.
• Conduct hands-on code reviews to ensure code quality, best practices, and adherence to established coding standards. Provide constructive feedback to team members and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Implement robust monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively identify and resolve performance issues, security vulnerabilities, and system failures.
• Implement and manage containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes for scalable and efficient application deployment and management.
• Ensure the security of infrastructure and applications by implementing best practices, security controls, and compliance standards.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of infrastructure, processes, and procedures to facilitate knowledge sharing and ensure operational excellence.
• Hands on configuration and troubleshooting of Cloud Platforms and Services
• Carries out responsibilities in a manner consistent with our values and operating principles, in accordance with policy and applicable laws, and with a commitment to commitment to continuous improvement and process excellence.
• Other duties as assigned.

Organizational Structure:

Reports to: Head of Systems Operations

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent work experience.

Required Knowledge/Skills:

• Deep expertise building, deploying, monitoring, and scaling workloads in AWS.
• Expertise with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code including creating and maintaining modules.
• Expertise with CI/CD tooling and creating pipelines to support the full software development.
• Expertise with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Expertise in cloud security practices and compliance standards.
• Experience automating toil automating toil out of day-to-day workflows.
• Ability to communicate and document technical details.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to lead and inspire a team.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, security best practices, and compliance standards.
• Strong scripting experience in Python, Powershell, Bash, or other scripting language
• Experience with Agile methodologies and leading Agile teams.
• Ability to analyze information and make logical recommendations.
• Linux System Administration.

Desired Skills:

• Experience working for a bank or in another highly regulated industry.
• Experience working with offshore resources in EMEA.
• Experience working with Spacelift or other Terraform Automation and Control tools.
• Experience working with New Relic or other SAAS monitoring platforms.
• Experience working with Azure DevOps, Github Actions, or other CICD Tooling
• Experience working with CloudFlare.
• Experience working with Ansible or other configuration as code tools.
• Experience with repository and artifact management.
• Governance as Code and Policy as Code experience.
• Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert) are highly desirable.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Knowledge of agile methodologies is desirable.

TransPecos Banks will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than the candidate. We will consider any candidate for whom an Agency submits an unsolicited resume, to have been referred to us by the Agency free of any charges or fees, other than those agencies we engage on a specific search. TransPecos Banks will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.