Location: New York City, NY (3 Days Hybrid from Day 1) | Experience: 13+ Years | Employment Type: Contract

Role Overview:

As a Public Cloud DevOps – Infra Automation Lead at Jefferies, you will be an integral part of our expanding Infrastructure Automation Team within the Public Cloud domain. This role entails collaborating with various infrastructure teams (Security, Networking, Database, Unix) to develop, deploy, and maintain cloud and hybrid applications. Given the collaborative nature of the role, we seek a senior professional with exceptional DevOps, AWS, and interpersonal skills. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication, teamwork, customer service, and leadership abilities to effectively partner with global technology engineering, information security, and line of business teams.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Utilize AWS to deploy highly available, scalable, and secure applications.
  • Assist in architecting, designing, and implementing cloud-based IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions.
  • Design, develop, and implement automation to support continuous delivery and continuous integration solutions.
  • Provide consulting and aid in building pipelines for application teams integrating cloud services into their applications.
  • Design and develop platform engineering and automation for governing the usage of cloud services and application autonomy.
  • Design and implement workflows to automate the release and upgrade process for applications in Development, Test, and Production environments.
  • Collaborate with the Cloud Security and Identity Teams on the administration and engineering of Role-Based Access Controls and processes.
  • Assist in designing and developing Governance of cloud infrastructure, encompassing technical controls and cost governance structures.
  • Create and update support documentation and standards.
  • Develop automated methodologies for deployment activities, configuration management, supporting systems, and business processes.
  • Utilize Jira to track and manage all work through the development lifecycle.
  • Proactively analyze and contribute improvements to support deployment processes.
  • Investigate and contribute to solving various issues in production environments.
  • Drive compliance and security efforts related to systems managed by the team.

Skills / Experience:

  • 5+ years of experience in AWS with professional and/or specialty certification, such as Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer.
  • Experience in implementing Secure Architectures for private and/or public internet-facing systems.
  • Strong understanding of cloud computing concepts, infrastructure, and best practices, including K8S, Containers, Serverless, and Microservices.
  • Proficiency in IaC, CI/CD Pipelines, Terraform, CloudFormation, Bitbucket, Bamboo, etc.
  • Strong understanding of networking and internet protocols and distributed systems.
  • Experience designing and developing resilient, highly available, and scalable systems for the cloud.
  • Experience in cloud cost optimization and budget management.
  • Proficiency in Python, AWS CLI.
  • Working knowledge of Shared Responsibility models.
  • Prior experience building out CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience working in Agile teams, and related tools (Jira, Confluence, etc.).
  • Background in software development is a plus.
  • Understanding of the financial markets is a plus.
  • Azure experience is a plus.
  • BA or BS in any STEM or related field. Masters is a plus.

Join our team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our infrastructure automation efforts within the dynamic landscape of Public Cloud. If you are a seasoned professional with a passion for cutting-edge technology and a drive for collaboration. If you meet the qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please send your resume to sakshi@godspeedgroup.ca