Cloud DevOps Engineer - Regions Bank Birmingham, AL, USA Bookmark Share Print 412 0 0

Listing Description

At Regions, the Cloud DevOps Engineer will play a pivotal role in advancing our cloud strategy. The primary focus of this role will include developing, communicating and implementing cloud Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines which are robust and secure. This role will work closely with all stakeholders to create fully automated pipelines which support current DevOps best practices.

• Partners with other developers and other information technology staff to oversee code releases
• Articulates business needs and translate them into technology solutions
• Designs and develops fully autonomous ci/cd pipelines which facilitate cloud deployments which includes automation of all infrastructure, services and application build and deployment
• Ensures that all parts of the pipeline follow good software engineering practices to include unit tests and infrastructure tests
• Researches new technologies that will improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Implements highly scalable applications
• Maintains health of cloud-based production environments through monitoring and typical daily administration duties
• Automates operational activities and tasks
• Responds to performance issues identified by alerts and reported incidents
• Builds tools which reduce errors and improve our overall customer experiences
• Assists in troubleshooting of production issues and ensure pipeline and infrastructure produces clear documentation and metrics which enables Root Cause Analysis
• Develops and tests – Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, Packer Scripts and establish immutable infrastructure such that patches are an artifact of the past
• Works with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security (InfoSec), Application Development to enable the organization to move to the cloud using complete automation

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or High school diploma or GED and seven (7) of DevOps experience
• Three (3) years experience as a DevOps practitioner
• Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies
• Working Knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, ServiceNow a big plus
• Familiar with implementing Chaos engineering principles in the pipeline in order to determine weak links and suggest solutions.
• Proficient in python programming language
• Excellent knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure – Compute – Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Virtual Machines (VM’s), SQL – Amazon Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) or Azure SQL, Document Data Store (DynamoDb,Mongo), Security Groups, Subnets
• Experience in building / deploying cloud native applications – OpenShift, , Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Experience in observing real-time metrics in the pipeline and deployment strategies – Blue/Green, Canary Deployment
• Must be comfortable in developing pipelines as code using yaml specs, ansible playbooks
• Experience with interfacing with secrets management solutions like Hashicorp Vault
• Excellent communication skills and willing to mentor developers and other team members in the art of DevOps​
• Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies

Preferences

• Preferred AWS DevOps certification or Azure DevOps certification

This position can be filled at a higher level depending on the candidate's qualifications and experience.

This position can be 100% remote.

This automation team will begin supporting the following tools: Ansible Tower, Terraform, Harness, and Vault. All of these tools will be working together to bring an end to end automation solution to Regions. Automation allows us a way to streamline workflows in a pattern that is repeatable and provides expected outcomes for Regions.  These tools will work with platforms across technology such as OpenShift, ALM, Unix, Windows, Load Balancers, and firewalls.

Some of the responsibilities include:

Working with the different areas in technology to combine automation through these tools into a workflow.

Setting up Role-Based Access Controls so appropriate people have access to kick off a workflow.

Assist with application integrations.

Creating onboarding patterns.

Create and manage secrets through Vault.

Supporting Vault failover between datacenters if it becomes necessary.

Creating necessary documentation around these tools.

Position Type

Full time

Location Details

Riverchase OPS Center

Location:

Hoover, Alabama

Bring Your Whole Self to Work  

We have a passion for creating an inclusive environment that promotes and values diversity of race, color, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sex, pregnancy, and many other primary and secondary dimensions that make each of us unique as individuals and provide valuable perspective that makes us a better company and employer. More importantly, we recognize that creating a workplace where everyone, regardless of background, can do their best work is the right thing to do.

OFCCP Disclosure: Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans