DevOps Engineer III

Job Description:

Job Title: DevOps Engineer III, 3rd Eye

Operating Company:  Environmental Solutions Group - 3rd Eye

Location: Chattanooga, TN

Reports to: DevOps Lead Engineer

Department: Software Engineering  

POSITION SUMMARY:

3rd Eye is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer III that can build culture and automation to empower our software delivery teams to deploy continuously. You will help manage our AWS infrastructure, as well as engineering and maintain a fully automated CI/CD pipeline. In addition, you will develop internal standards and work with software delivery teams to provide them with the autonomy necessary to deliver, test and monitor our applications using DevOps best practices.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS INCLUDE:

• Automate deployment, monitoring, incident response and maintain infrastructure in AWS.
• Scripting, and software development using one or more programming languages using DRY best practices.
• Exposure to and maintenance of configuration management tools.

• Develop and improve best practices for Infrastructure as Code, software build tools and promote CI/CD.
•         Optimize performance, scale out and build resiliency in the platform.
• Focus on infrastructure cost monitoring to help meet 3rd Eye’s business model expectations.
• Deployment of system and security patches and updates, including managing the patching platform for servers.

• Participate in on-call rotations.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS:

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (or other technical discipline with significant computer coursework) or equivalent experience with relevant Professional Certification(s) such as AWS Associate (or other equivalent experience).

• Experience in 24x7 production operations, preferably deploying H/A, IoT and scalable applications.
• At least 7 years of experience (in coding and scripting using one or more programming languages.
• Minimum 4 years of experience with Linux administration.
• Minimum 4 years of direct Amazon AWS DevOps experience (or equivalent cloud environments).
• Experience with containerization and infrastructure as code technologies, preferably Terraform, Docker.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline, Gitlab, or others.

• Experience with modern software configuration management tools including Salt, Ansible, or others.
• Significant experience with managing Distributed database clusters (Cassandra/Mongo/ElasticSearch).
• Familiarity with best practices for well-architected, secure cloud applications.
• Familiarity with common authentication schemes as 2FA/MFA, Key Pairs, Biometric.

• Experience working with typical network protocols including TCP/IP, HTTP(/2), TLS, SSH.
• Excellent oral and written skills.

NICE TO HAVE:

• Experience with container provisioning and management such as AWS ECS, Kubernetes, or AWS EKS.
• Experience building end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline, Gitlab, or others.
• Experience creating/maintaining large-scale automated deployments with Salt, Ansible, or others.
• Significant experience with multiple monitoring and logging tools such as AWS CloudWatch + CloudTrail, Elastic Stack, Grafana + Prometheus, Datadog, and Splunk.
• Experience in designing, building, architecting of applications and networks.
• Strong understanding of AWS Security stacks such as GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie, SecurityHub, Detective.

• Knowledge of Cyber Security Frameworks (NIST, ISO).
• Associate-level AWS Certification a plus, Professional-level a big plus.
• Proficiency at distilling complex concepts into tangible value-generating initiatives.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

Ethics and Work Standards: Maintain the highest ethical and work standards, while promoting the same attributes in co-workers and others.  Ensure that all business activities – with both internal and external customers – to be performed with a professional demeanor and that all participants be held accountable to this high standard.

Communication:  Expresses thoughts clearly, both orally and in writing, using good grammar. Presents concise, well organized reports in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.  Listens to understand input, feedback and concerns.  Provides complete information in an open, honest and straightforward manner.  Responds promptly and positively to questions and requests.

Teamwork and Relationships:  Works with other employees willingly and in a spirit of cooperation and teamwork.  Supports cooperation.  Demonstrates a commitment to the entire business and is supportive of all initiatives (company and departmental) to help grow Environmental Solutions Group business in the United States and abroad.  Cooperates fully with others to achieve organizational goals. Is tactful, courteous, and considerate.  Embraces a positive outlook.  Is respected and trusted by others.

Continual Improvement and Problem Resolution: Identifies and communicates suggestions for work improvements.  Uses technical and analytical abilities to assure existing work practices are the most efficient and cost effective possible. Performs root-cause analysis and implements viable, permanent solutions to problems.  Works with both internal and external customers to develop solutions which meet company-wide needs and objectives.  Applies a sense of urgency to resolve problems or creates opportunities that will increase productivity and create value.  Shares best practices with other employees across the business.

Accountability:  Accepts responsibility and accessibility for both the strategic planning and the successful implementation of all projects, programs, and duties as outlined in this job description. Advises supervisor of concerns, problems and progress of work in a timely manner.