AWS DevOps Lead

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Job description

Position Title - AWS DevOps Lead
Domain EXP - (Healthcare Domain)

Location - Palo Alto CA (Onsite)

Experience - 14+ Years Exp

Must Have - AWS DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, Infrastructure as code

(Requires working from Guardant office in Palo Alto 3 days)

Good to have : Go Lang, Java

About the Role:

Deep understanding of the software development life cycle and zero downtime release management. Experience with agile based iterative development and knowledge of software engineering best practices

Influence the development of solutions that impact strategic projects/program goals and business outcomes

Resolve highly complex problems using a significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualization, reasoning and interpretation

Communicate effectively to help bridge stakeholder and development requirements

Lead the design, implementation of our public Cloud infrastructure and large scale Kubernetes clusters including CI/CD, provisioning, sizing, and Infrastructure as code

Building a release pipeline to enable fast, but safe delivery of critical business software to Production

Driving best practices in cost optimization, security, monitoring, alerting, operations excellence, performance efficiency and reliability in underlying systems

Scale systems sustainably through automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity

Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems

Be part of an on-call rotation to support production systems and post-deployment monitoring

Lead and mentor junior engineers on the team

Experience Needed

15+ years exp is needed

Solid DevOps and Release orchestration with industry experience deploying highly available, rapidly scalable cloud-based computing services (AWS, GCP, etc)

Experience in running cloud services using products such as Kubernetes, Docker or OpenShift

Experience with cloud-native ecosystem tools and technology stack such as container security, static code vulnerability, service proxies, container network, and service mesh

strong automation skills using tools such as Ansible, Chef, Terraform, Jenkins a must

Strong knowledge of Linux and Linux environments (RHEL 6/7/8, RHCSA/RHCE, CentOS) a must

Programming experience in operating cloud environments using languages such as Python, Go, Ruby, Java, etc.

Experience in designing and managing CI/CD platforms on tools like Jenkins that allow for multiple releases/day and developer visibility

Implementation, management and optimization of observability tools and platform for system monitoring, logging, tracing and metrics (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Sentry, Logz.io, New Relic, Jaeger, Splunk, etc.)

Must be fluent with Git

Expert in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong verbal and written communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive

Working with the various business units to help define SLOs and SLIs

Ability to successfully work with customers, developers, testing, project management, and support staff

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