We are Vericast.  We create meaningful connections between business and the people that they serve-how, when and where it matters. By pushing the boundaries of data and insights, we spark discovery and inspire action to create profitable results.

We're seeking a highly creative AWS DevOps Engineer II to monitor, support, and enhance the AWS cloud infrastructure of our award-winning cross channel marketing suite.  This role will work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and IT stakeholders in an agile framework.  If you're passionate about building automated infrastructure as code, code pipelines, and industry leading security and compliance capabilities then Vericast is a great fit for you.
 

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the development team to identify needs for infrastructure as well as building and deploying their applications
• Maintain various development/test/production AWS environments
• Build scalable testing infrastructure and CI/CD support for Application Lifecycle Management
• Manage release versions of a Machine Learning Execution platform
• Build various AWS cost and application performance alerts
• Build out infrastructure workflows to cater to internal Data Scientists for rapid prototyping
• Establish and maintain DevOps best practices documentation for the team
• Create and maintain scalable deployment pipelines along with test case automation
• Develop infrastructure-as-code for various application components using AWS Cloud formation or Terraform
• Infrastructure troubleshooting across various AWS environments
• Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and cloud security solutions
• Troubleshoot failed builds and deployments
• Perform AWS infrastructure cost analysis and optimization
• Take part in all scrum ceremonies
• Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Developer Associate preferred

Experience

• 3+ years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (Sagemaker, Step Function, VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront, S3)
• 2+ years of experience in maintaining Machine Learning Workflows
• 2+ years of experience in developing infrastructure-as-code using AWS Cloud formation or Terraform
• 1+ year of experience with maintaining AWS Sagemaker environment and Machine Learning pipeline
• Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements
• Experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment techniques, approaches, and tools, including experience with some of the following tools: Gitlab, Code Deploy etc
• Containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Infrastructure provisioning (at least one of Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Application monitoring (ELK stack, New Relic, Datadog, etc.)
• Experience supporting production grade systems including Linux administration, deployment, high availability & durability, practical logging & monitoring, and cost optimization in a public cloud, preferably AWS

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Solid foundation of networking and Linux administration
• Solid understanding of Machine Learning Workflow Management
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced start-up like team
• Possesses a good understanding of the DevOps ‘marketplace’: Current vendors, their technologies and can articulate the key differences in their offerings
• Issue and bug tracking and wiki documentation (JIRA, Confluence)
• Software Delivery Lifecycle Process optimization
• Source code systems and branching strategies
• Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools
• Communicate effectively
• Active listener

Vericast offers a generous total rewards benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401K matching and flexible PTO. A wide variety of additional benefits like life insurance, employee assistance and pet insurance are also available, not to mention smart and friendly coworkers! 

At Vericast, we don’t just accept differences - we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our clients, and our community. As an Equal Opportunity employer, Vericast considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classifications protected by law. Applicants who have disabilities may request that accommodations be made in order to complete the selection process by contacting our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected] or 616-541-3145.  

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