Key skills
Infrastructure as CodeScripting for server managementLinuxAmazon AWSTerraformConfiguration managementMonitoring and metrics collectionSecurity best practicesPenetration testingVulnerability assessmentContainer orchestrationKubernetesECSAnsibleNetworking on Linux environmentsMicroservices environmentsFunctional programming languagesHaskellClojureAWS
About this role
Vlipco is a company focused on transforming the financial sector in Latin America, seeking builders who can impact their business and user experience. The Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing infrastructure in a multi-account AWS environment, leading security best practices, and ensuring the stability and security of the company's services.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement infrastructure in a multi-account AWS environment
- Evaluate new technology and product changes to improve SLAs, visibility and quality of the operation, while collaborating closely with all other engineering team
- Lead security best practices and regular audits of our environment to meet compliance requirements. You will collaborate with a compliance office or the director of operations to ensure we are meeting regular compliance requirements, but you will be responsible for the highly technical parts such as pen-testing, vulnerabilities, alerting, etc
- Implement scripts and automation tasks for infrastructure and configuration as code as well as monitoring, metrics collection, etc
- Lead automation efforts for data collection and processing as well as backups and SRE efforts
- Work directly with the technology and data teams to design, test and secure cloud infrastructure
- Design and implement: build, deployment, and configuration management
- Build and test automation tools for infrastructure provisioning
- Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations
- Monitor metrics and develop ways to improve infrastructure monitoring
- Follow all best practices and procedures as established by company
- Regularly create and update documentation relating to process, automation and architecture
- Evaluate and assist in the design of new features that may impact infrastructure and operations performance, provisioning, security, etc
Requirements:
- Validated experience with configuration as code and scripting for server management
- Previous experience with infrastructure development and IT Operations
- Experience with Linux, Open Source tooling
- Experience with Amazon AWS, ideally with Terraform
- Experience with multiple AWS services and your ability to discover the strengths of each service and expose valuable but deeply hidden documentation is fundamental
- Up-to-date on latest industry trends; able to articulate ideas and recommendations
- Minimum 5 years of experience as a developer and proven experience in production environments
- You should be open to evaluate solutions based on constraints and organizational values
- You should be able to sustain calls and written conversation in English with international vendors
- Be comfortable reading complex technical documentation in English
- Container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS)
- Infrastructure as code (Ansible, Terraform)
- Networking on Linux like environments
- Microservices environments
- Functional Programming Language proficiency (Lisp, Haskell, Clojure)