AWS DevOps Engineer
| Published | October 13, 2021 |
| Location | Atlanta, GA |
| Category | Default |
| Job Type | Full-time |
Description
AWS DevOps Engineer
Virtual US or Costa Rica
TradeStation is an online brokerage firm seeking to level the playing field for self-directed investors and traders, empowering them to claim their individual financial edge. At TradeStation, we're continuously pushing the boundaries of what's possible, encouraging out-of-the-box thinking and relentless search for innovation. We offer a collaborative and flexible work environment, competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits and a generous PTO policy.
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for DevOps and excellence in Operations. You will work in a dynamic highly challenging and always evolving environment. You will help evolve our Cloud Native Infrastructure as part of our Enterprise Analytics team. SRE is dedicated to eliminating daily toil, reducing risk, and accelerating the productivity of Data Engineering and Machine Learning teams by delivering automated tools.
Bring your passion and skills to solve interesting problems and have an immediate impact. Join us!
Success in this role requires an eagerness to learn, problem-solving skills and a self-starter mindset. You eat git merge conflicts for breakfast and find yourself at home living in the terminal using Bash, Python, JSON and YAML.
Enthusiastic learners who can think creatively, raise questions, and research items, as necessary. Possessing a “Can Do” attitude to build quality code at a high velocity.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
- Understand, execute, and embody Site Reliability Engineering principles
- Build and maintain cloud infrastructure for development teams to utilize
- Build necessary guardrails to keep services operational and secure
- Build templates and tools to accelerate development
- Support teams to help them bring their applications to the cloud
- Work in a DevOps environment, where development teams own both the development and operational responsibilities
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & CORE TECHNOLOGIES:
Required:
- Ability to create tools using a general-purpose programming language (e.g. Python, Java, R)
- Experience utilizing Cloud Infrastructure on one or more cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Azure)
- Experience building cloud infrastructure as code (e.g. CloudFormation, Stacker, Terraform)
- Familiarity working in an Agile environment with DevOps utilizing CI-CD tools (e.g. GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
- Comfortable with writing bash scripts and using command line interfaces
- Knowledge of full stack monitoring concepts and tooling from code to system resources
- Experience creating monitoring dashboards with tools such as Grafana or DataDog
- Understanding of Agile SDLC, Change Management
- Good oral and written communication skills
Preferred:
- Brokerage/trading domain knowledge and experience
- Experience working with Big Data infrastructure (Apache Spark, Delta, Databricks, Data lakes, Data Warehouses, Lake House)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- Knowledge and experience of current trends for DevOps applied to “data as a product” (e.g. Continuous Learning, Medallion architecture)
- Configuration management and deployment automation tools (e.g. CI/CD Pipelines, Octopus, Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent work experience
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