DevOps Engineer II - Remote schedule

CPI Card Group is seeking a DevOps Engineer II to enhance software delivery and system reliability. The role involves automating infrastructure, managing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring application performance in AWS, while collaborating with IT and development teams to support the organization's DevOps strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Automate the deployment of environments using IAC tooling such as Terraform
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to deploy services
• Partner with Network, Security, Development, and QA teams to determine how best to migrate business systems
• Work with development to design and implement improved deployment, provisioning, and integration pipelines; ensure environments are in good working order and identify areas and plans for improvement
• Develop monitoring for business systems to track performance, resource utilization, and consumption using tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail or Elasticsearch
• Build reusable AMI’s for scripted deployments of infrastructure in AWS across multiple regions
• Work with existing DevOps to develop needed log retention for AWS instance business applications for retrieval per audit policy and PCI compliance
• Maintain and administer servers, storage, virtualization platforms, and endpoint management tools
• Deploy and manage cloud infrastructure on platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Monitor and optimize cloud resources for performance, availability, and cost-efficiency
• Build and manage containerized applications using Docker
• Deploy and maintain Kubernetes clusters or other orchestration platforms
• Implement and maintain security best practices across infrastructure and pipelines
• Ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations
• Set up and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog)
• Respond to incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures
• Work closely with development, QA, and IT teams to support application deployment and infrastructure needs
• Provide technical guidance and support for DevOps tools and practices

Requirements:

• At least 8 years demonstrated success in related IT profession, including substantial experience in DevOps
• Technical knowledge and experience across various IT areas, including infrastructure, automation development, and operations
• Troubleshoot and configure core AWS Platforms such as ECS Fargate, Lambda, S3, Route 53, RDS, etc
• Administer software-defined networking in AWS, proficient in managing NACL's and AWS Security Groups
• Ability to automate processes/code in Python, or another modern scripting language
• Linux core fundamentals and command-line operations
• Configuration management and automation/deployment solutions tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, GitLab, Terraform, SaltStack, Octopus, Jenkins, Git, Nagios, etc
• Good understanding of Docker containerization
• Working knowledge of Web API, RESTful Services, and WCF Services
• Central authentication platforms, such as Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos/IDM
• Advanced troubleshooting of IP routing, VPN access methods, and DNS
• Windows Server knowledge beneficial
• Excellent communication skills, ability to convey and document network-related dependencies
• Respond to inquiries from colleagues and service providers to provide technical assistance and support network-related functions and availability
• Participates in after-hours' support when required
• One or more of the following AWS specific Certifications a plus: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
• Experience with microservices architecture and service mesh technologies
• Familiarity with serverless computing and event-driven architectures