The Role
We are seeking a skilled and experienced DevOps Engineer to join our team. As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and CI/CD processes. You will work closely with software development and operations teams to ensure the seamless delivery and operation of our applications and services.
Join our dynamic team and contribute to the continuous improvement of our infrastructure, deployment processes, and overall DevOps practices. Apply now and be part of our innovative and fast-paced environment.
Major Responsibilities:
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS, specifically leveraging services such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, ECS Fargate, EKS, and others.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools like Terraform to enable reproducibility and automation of infrastructure provisioning.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous integration, delivery, and deployment of applications and services.
- Implement and manage container orchestration using Kubernetes, specifically on Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).
- Monitor and optimize system performance, reliability, and scalability through proactive monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure proper application deployment and configuration management.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure, deployments, and operational incidents.
- Develop and implement security best practices, including access controls, data encryption, and vulnerability management.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in DevOps, cloud computing, and infrastructure automation.
- Document and share knowledge with team members and contribute to the improvement of DevOps processes and standards.
- Design and implement disaster recovery plans, backups, and business continuity strategies for cloud infrastructure.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
- 2 - 4 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, AWS, and managing cloud-based infrastructure.
- Extensive experience with AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service), AWS Fargate, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, and other AWS services.
- Strong experience in Docker containerization and container orchestration platforms, particularly AWS ECS and Fargate.
- Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation.
- Strong background in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines with tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI,.
- Solid experience with AWS monitoring tools like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and third-party tools like Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and alerting.
- Experience with cloud security best practices, including IAM roles/policies, encryption, and vulnerability management.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or Shell scripting.
- Familiarity with Version Control Systems like Git and modern source code management practices.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot issues across multiple layers of the stack (infrastructure, containers, networks).
- Ability to work in an agile, collaborative environment and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
- AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
- Experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
- Knowledge of Microservices Architecture and associated best practices for deploying and scaling containerized applications.
- Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, with a focus on automation and continuous improvement.
- Experience with networking concepts, such as VPC, subnets, load balancing, and DNS.
Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights with headquarters in Moscow (ID) with offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India. We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions and companies, and our communities.
Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.
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The Company
What We Do
Emsi Burning Glass is a labor market analytics firm, using data to drive economic prosperity.
We collect and integrate complex labor market data and build user-friendly tools to help you understand employment, economic trends, and training needs for your region.
We believe that a skilled, well-prepared workforce drives economic prosperity.
We work with clients in higher education, workforce development, economic development, site selection, and talent acquisition.
