DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

Your role

Responsibilities

• Managing and administering AWS cloud infrastructures (servers, RDS, Lambda, SNS, communication, security, storage, DevOps).
• Managing infrastructure as a code.
• Applying CD/CI principles on software projects on AWS.
• Implementing best practices in automation to ensure security.
• Sits as a member of the Incident Report Team (IRT).
• Maintain an up-to-date inventory of assets, including data, hardware, and software.
• Ensure regular data backups and encryption.
• Use security monitoring tools to detect and analyze incidents.
• Restore affected systems and services to normal operation.
• Preserve evidence for legal and forensic purposes.
• Establishing infrastructure monitoring tools in the cloud.
• Preparing high-level infrastructure diagrams and documenting automation processes.
• Performing root cause analysis of production errors and resolving technical issues.
• Delegating tasks and achieving set goals while considering expected and agreed time frames.
• Liaising with team members, Management and other stakeholders to ensure projects are completed and up to quality standard.
• Writing progress reports and relevant material to update relevant stakeholders.
• Working closely with our product and design team to better understand end-user requirements.

Qualifications and Experience

• 3-5 years of experience in continuous improvement projects for AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience as a systems analyst.
• Proven experience in infrastructure as code - Terraform (required).
• Experience in designing and maintaining CI/CD, bitbucket pipelines, Jenkins, and/or Maven.
• Knowledge of configuring AWS services (ECS, EC2, S3, AWS Transfer Family, Web Application Firewall, CloudFormation, CloudFront, API Gateway).
• Experience in platforms like Docker, Container and Kubernetes.
• Database administration knowledge (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redshift, Redis, etc).
• Knowledge in networking (VPCs, subnets, ELBs, security groups, Route53, Firewall, CloudShield, etc).
• Knowledge of technologies/languages like Ruby, SQL, Javascript, Bash.
• Demonstrated experience, exposure and interest in the FinTech space; having worked with a Fintech company will be a big advantage.
• A degree in computer science/engineering or similar studies; having completed Cloud-related certifications such as AWS Certified Solution Architect will be an advantage.
• Experience in Oracle cloud (Ideal).
• Automate compliance checks (SOC2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, GDPR where applicable), any experience with these security standards is going to be a plus.