Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS)

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. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Setup and manage infrastructure using CloudFormation
• Setup CI/CD pipelines from scratch using AWS native tools
• Integrate security best practices into AWS-based infrastructure and applications
• Implement monitoring solutions for applications running on a cloud-native technology stack
• Communicate with stakeholders to ensure proper integration with the customer's infrastructure

Must-Have Skills:

• 4 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer
• Design, implement, and manage cloud-based multi-account infrastructure on AWS
• Experience implementing AWS security best practices
• Support development and maintenance of AWS ECS or EKS clusters, ensuring scalability, high availability, and optimal performance
• Provision and manage infrastructure using CloudFormation
• Setup CI/CD process using AWS native tools (code commit, deploy, pipeline, build)
• Experience using Datadog or New Relic services
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
• Effective communication and collaboration abilities, with the capacity to work effectively in a team environment.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with AWS DMS
• Experience working with multi-cloud environments
• Experience working with (or implementing) highly available cross-region applications and respective DR mechanisms