AWS DevOps Engineer

PBT Group has an opportunity for an Intermediate – Senior DevOps Developer to help design, build and implement a DevOps approach to deploying our Data Engineering pipelines to our various AWS accounts (PipeLines,Dev,Test,Prod,DR).

The services we employ are predominantly EMR and Glue, and ideally the candidate will have some exposure to these or general data engineering principals to understand the core constructs of what is being deployed in cloud.

The candidate will be responsible for setting up / maintaining the repositories and branches of the various pipelines/environments, along with the maintenance / build out of the Pipelines account, which is the account that we use to deploy stacks to the different AWS Accounts. The candidate will also be in charge of the coordination and execution activities involved in deploying solutions to Prod. Lastly helping define a monitoring strategy and potentially the build out of that strategy.

Furthermore the ideal candidate will also have a good grasp on monitoring of services and workloads, to aid in developing and implementing a monitoring strategy for the services along with the CICD deployments.

Typical Responsibilities:

• You coordinate the deployment pipelines across the various environment (Dev, PreProd, Prod) that the Dev team is building, with the scrum manager, PO and Technical Manager. You are actively involved in cross-team projects that involve development.
• You ensure good AWS practices are followed with sound security and governance.
• You will coordinate with the cloud COE team for any AWS account level security and access.
• You Maintain the AWS Pipeline Deployment Account
• You Maintain the various Pipeline Repositories and set up the deployment of relative branches to their respective Environments
• You will be responsible for resolving any security findings on your responsible AWS accounts given by group security.
• You will need to do technical solution flows, determine standards and patterns for dev team to execute on.
• You will manage the CI/CD pipeline on azure dev ops and AWS and ensure good gates are in place for review for deployment and ensure good practices and patterns are followed in this regard.
• You lead the development of pipelines through the use of AWS CloudFormation and related services, and up-skill the pipeline development and CI/CD principals of your team members. You mentor them if needed. We also expect you to continue to develop yourself where need and keep abreast of new developments.
• You document your work and make sure that your documentation is clear and understandable for future use by others.
• The team works in an agile way, and you will be part of the rituals and practices.
• You will assist in PI planning to ensure the team is focus on the correct deliveries of CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor and train juniors in the team to uplift team capabilities.

Core Skills:

• AWS CloudFormation and the AWS DevOps tools and services
• Multi account deployment from a dedicated PipeLines Account

Nice to Have:

• Data Engineering experience
• Building Monitoring systems

Qualifications/ Certification:

• A degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Business Administration / Commerce or equivalent