Lead Dev Ops Engineer

Schellman is a Top 50 CPA firm and a leading provider of attestation and compliance services. Our professional services focus on security and privacy audits, assessments, and certifications.  Schellman has become one of the largest cybersecurity assessment firms in the United States without providing any traditional accounting services.  We are an accredited multi-framework ISO Certification Body for security, privacy, business continuity, and quality; a globally licensed PCI Qualified Security Assessor and a top provider to clients serving the federal DoD space as a leading FedRAMP 3PAO and the first assessment firm authorized as a CMMC C3PAO. Our specialty and expertise remain in providing best in class Cybersecurity and IT Audits and Attestations. Our culture, approach with clients, and dedication to our values has led us to consistently be a Great Places to Work certified company and rated as a Best Firms to Work For by Accounting Today and a Glassdoor Best Places to Work. We deeply appreciate our employees, as shown by our first core value – People Come First. This is demonstrated in our culture, benefits, and how we handle business. Come see what makes Schellman special!

JOB SUMMARY

The Lead DevOps Engineer plays a key role in building and maintaining our secure and scalable cloud infrastructure.  This role partners with development and security teams to optimize our DevOps processes and implement new technologies to ensure efficient and secure deployments. This role reports to the Director, IT Infrastructure and Security.

Essential Functions:

• Thought leader in managing and extending our current AWS infrastructure with focus on Security, Resiliency, and Observability

• Lead the Development team in automation/performance optimization and best practice adoption

• Serve as the main point of contact and SME for assigned services, capabilities and roadmap, providing guidance and expertise when designing solutions for business needs

• Participate in R&D for process improvement and release speed

• Partner with other IT teams, as well as business verticals, to automate manual processes with scalability, cohesion, and security in mind

• Build and maintain strong relationships with our vendors and service providers

• Leverage APIs to script and automate various IT operations

• Identify, evaluate and implement new services to address the needs of our team members and clients

• Enforce compliance requirements

• Quickly identify, communicate, diagnose, and resolve technical issues

• Build and maintain detailed and accurate documentation for our processes and workflows

• Grow technical skills and mentor team members with their growth.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Proficiency with: AWS, Kubernetes (AWS EKS), Docker & Containers, Terraform, GitLab (or equivalent CI/CD), Bash, MySQL (Aurora a plus), Okta, Duo, Zscaler, Jumpcloud and the like.

• Advanced understanding of Information Security, IAM, LDAP, APIs, and Networking

• Advanced knowledge and proficiency with Linux OS

• Consistently maintains a high attention to detail

• Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities simultaneously

• Proven track record of proactively identifying and solving problems

• Assist development team in automation/performance optimizations and best practice adoption

• Excellent analytical, verbal, and written communication skills

• Enjoys working in a collaborative fast-moving dynamic environment

• Self-starter with ability to effectively problem solve, prioritize, and execute tasks with minimal direction or supervision

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant Information Technology discipline or equivalent years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified

• Pursuing or have obtained certifications in: AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect or SysOps Administrator Associate)

• 7 or more years of overall IT experience, with 5 or more years of DevOps in a cloud-native environment

Schellman is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workplace; therefore, providing equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law. Schellman uses E-Verify in our hiring process.
 

At Schellman, we strive to provide a flexible and balanced environment and therefore offer the opportunity to work remotely, unless otherwise stated in the job requirements. Connecting, collaborating and continuous education are also highly valued and therefore we require some travel annually for our Internal Service Delivery roles, which can include in-person training, team meet-ups, and strategy meetings. Service Delivery team members will also be required to travel based on business and client needs.