Lead AWS DevOps Engineer

About the project:
Our customer is the leading school transportation provider in North America, being the owner of more than a half of all yellow school buses in the United States. Every day, the company completes 5 million student journeys, moving more passengers than all U.S. airlines combined and delivers reliable, quality services for 1,100 school districts.

N-iX has built a successful cooperation with the client delivering a range of complex initiatives. As a result, N-iX has been selected as a strategic long-term partner to drive the digital transformation on an enterprise level, fully remodeling the technology landscape for 55,000 employees and millions of people across North America.

Responsibilities:
- Work on deployment strategies and automation for cloud-native applications
- Design standards for CI/CD and build pipeline automation
- Work on implementing application monitoring and logging strategies using tools like DataDog, Cloudwatch
- Maintain and improve a common infrastructure shared by product teams
- Optimize our environments with a focus on security, agility, and team productivity
- Work towards introducing desirable features into your work: automation, HA, scalability, monitoring, and security
- Coach and collaborate with product teams to improve their infrastructure and AWS best practices
- Lead a DevOps guild across our project
- Follow SDLC and Agile/Iterative practices

Requirements:
- At least 6 years of DevOps expertise with a focus on the AWS stack
- Deep knowledge of Linux systems administration
- Possesses a solid understanding of modern web application architecture, TCP/IP, HTTP, and complex cloud network and security topologies
- Solid experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, S3, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, Route53, etc.
- Security by design mindset
- Solid knowledge of relational databases, NoSQL databases, and in-memory databases
- Deep expertise in monitoring, logging, and management tools or services that integrate with AWS (CloudWatch, DataDog)
- Strong experience in ECS and microservices
- Proven experience in designing and implementing build pipelines in a CI/CD environment
- Proven skills in Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform)
- Excellent scripting skills using Bash or Python
- Experience in AWS based CI/CD infrastructure would be a plus (CodeCommit, CodePipeline, CodeArtifact)
- Solid understanding of SDLC
- Confident knowledge of Agile methodologies
- Technical leadership experience is a must
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Conversational English level (B2)

About N-iX

N-iX is an international software development service company that helps businesses across the globe expand their engineering capabilities and develop successful software products. Founded in 2002, we have come a long way and increased our presence in eight countries spanning Europe, the US and Latin America.
With more than 2,000 specialists, N-iX offers expert solutions in cloud computing, data analytics, machine learning, business intelligence, embedded software, and IoT, covering a wide variety of sectors including finance, manufacturing, supply chain, telecom, energy, etc.

Company website:
https://careers.n-ix.com/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/n-ix/