Lead Cloud Devops Engineer - AWS, Jenkins

Grade Level (for internal use):

The Team: The Infrastructure team is a global team split across the US, Canada and the UK. The team is responsible for building and maintaining platforms used by Index Management teams to calculate and rebalance our high profile indices.

The Impact: You will be responsible for the development and expansion of platforms which calculate and rebalance indices for S&P Dow Jones Indices. This will ensure that relevant teams have continuous access to up to date benchmarks and indices.

Whats in it for you:

In this role, you will be a key player in the Infrastructure Engineering team where you will manage the automation of systems administration in the AWS Cloud environment used for running index applications. You will build solutions to automate resource provisioning and administration of infrastructure in AWS Cloud for our index applications. There will also be a smaller element of L3 support for Developers when they have more complex queries to address.

Responsibilities:

• Create DevOps pipelines to deliver Infrastructure as Code.
• Build workflows to create immutable Infrastructure in AWS.
• Develop automation for provisioning compute instances and storage.
• Build AMI images for the cloud
• Develop Ansible playbooks and automate execution of routine Linux scripts
• Provision resources in AWS using Cloud Formation Templates
• Deploy immutable infrastructure in AWS using Cloud formation, Ansible, Python etc.,
• Orchestrate container deployment
• Configure Security Groups, Roles & IAM Policy in AWS
• Monitor infrastructure and develop utilization reports
• Implementing and maintaining version control systems, configuration management tools, and other DevOps-related technologies
• Designing and implementing automation tools and frameworks for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment
• Develop and write scripts for pipeline automation using relevant scripting languages like Groovy, YAML
• Configure continuous delivery workflows for various environments e.g., development, staging, production.
• Use Jenkins to create pipelines, for infrastructure deployment and management in the cloud
• Evaluate new AWS services and solutions.
• Focus on IAC, build reusable workflows for infrastructure in the cloud
• Troubleshoot Production issues in AWS and infrastructure pipelines
• Remediate violations on IAC
• Develop IAC which meets industry security standards
• Effectively interact with global customers, business users and IT employees

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering or equivalent qualification is preferred or relevant equivalent work experience
• RedHat Linux & AWS Certifications preferred.
• Strong experience in Infrastructure Engineering and automation.
• Very good experience in AWS Cloud systems administration.
• Experience in developing Ansible scripts and Jenkins integration.
• Expertise using DevOps tools (Jenkins, Python, Boto, Ansible, GitHub, Artifactory)
• Expertise in the different automation tools used to develop CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency in Jenkins and Groovy for creating dynamic and responsive CI/CD pipelines
• Good experience in RedHat Linux scripting
• First class communication skills written, verbal and presenting

Preferred Qualifications:

• Candidates should have a minimum of 12 years industry experience in cloud and Infrastructure.
• Administer Redhat Linux Operating Systems
• Deploy OS patches & perform upgrades
• Configure filesystems & allocate storage
• Develop Unix scripts
• Develop scripts for automation of infrastructure provisioning.
• Monitor infrastructure and develop utilization reports
• Evaluate new AWS services and solutions
• Experience working with customers to diagnose a problem, and work toward resolution
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Understanding of various Load Balancers in a large data center environment