What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior DevOps Engineer position at Swivel?
SWIVEL is seeking a high-performing, hands-on Sr. DevOps Engineer committed to the practices required to support critical customer-facing platforms requiring consistent uptime while driving continuous improvement and innovation.
Participate in small-team initiatives to continuously refine our deployment practices for improved reliability, repeatability, and security. You will create plans, collaborate with other DevOps team members, and coordinate with software engineering and business teams. These high-visibility initiatives will help to increase service levels, lower costs, and deliver features more quickly.
Design effective monitoring & alerting for conditions such as application errors and high memory usage. Design log aggregation approaches to quickly access logs for troubleshooting or generate reports for trend analysis to proactively notify business stakeholders of issues and communicate metrics while working closely with these stakeholders.
Why you'll love this role :
Doing the audacious is part of SWIVEL's DNA. We are a company that rewards creative minds who can offer bold solutions, where opinions matter, anything is possible, and the outcome can be revolutionary. As a cutting-edge financial services company, SWIVEL is doing big things and needs the brightest minds to tackle the biggest challenges. Come join us!
Essential duties include the following :
- Delivering excellence to our Software Engineering teams, empowering them to maximize development velocity while simultaneously enforcing best practices and security standards.
- Ownership, architecture, and management of AWS infrastructure components such as Lambda, EKS, etc.
- Building with a mind for both security and compliance.
- Deploying to AWS via Azure DevOps-based source control and CI / CD pipeline design.
- Owning the technical design, and implementation of the automation technologies required for deploying, maintaining and operating cloud infrastructure.
- Creating the policies and procedures for properly supporting our rapidly growing microservice architecture.
- Ensuring cloud-based architectures meet availability and recoverability requirements.
- Implementation of cloud-based monitoring and alerting.
- Find scalability bottlenecks and areas for performance improvements.
- Identify and execute on opportunities to help set the standard for excellence in cloud infrastructure design and automation.
- Active monitoring of risks to site SLAs and overall delivery.
Serious candidates will possess the minimum qualifications :
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Additional Information :
SWIVEL is a Substance-Free Workplace and requires pre-employment drug testing.
Please note, SWIVEL does not hire tobacco users as allowed by law.
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