Company Description
We are Vericast. We create meaningful connections between business and the people that they serve-how, when and where it matters. By pushing the boundaries of data and insights, we spark discovery and inspire action to create profitable results.
Job Description
We're seeking a highly creative Senior Staff AWS DevOps Engineer to help drive the design, support, and enhancement the AWS cloud infrastructure for our award-winning cross channel marketing suite. This role will work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and IT stakeholders in an agile framework and provide opportunities to mentor junior DevOps staff. If you're passionate about building automated infrastructure as code, code pipelines, and industry leading security and compliance capabilities then Vericast is a great fit for you.
KEY DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
EDUCATION
Vericast offers a generous total rewards benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401K matching and flexible PTO. A wide variety of additional benefits like life insurance, employee assistance and pet insurance are also available, not to mention smart and friendly coworkers!
At Vericast, we don’t just accept differences - we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our clients, and our community. As an Equal Opportunity employer, Vericast considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classifications protected by law. Applicants who have disabilities may request that accommodations be made in order to complete the selection process by contacting our Talent Acquisition team at or 616-541-3145.
We are Vericast. We create meaningful connections between business and the people that they serve-how, when and where it matters. By pushing the boundaries of data and insights, we spark discovery and inspire action to create profitable results.
Job Description
We're seeking a highly creative Senior Staff AWS DevOps Engineer to help drive the design, support, and enhancement the AWS cloud infrastructure for our award-winning cross channel marketing suite. This role will work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and IT stakeholders in an agile framework and provide opportunities to mentor junior DevOps staff. If you're passionate about building automated infrastructure as code, code pipelines, and industry leading security and compliance capabilities then Vericast is a great fit for you.
KEY DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
- Collaborate with the development team to identify needs for infrastructure as well as building and deploying their applications 15%
- Design and implement cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS 30%
- System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms 10%
- Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and cloud security solutions 10%
- Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products 10%
- Perform AWS infrastructure cost analysis and optimization 5%
- Mentor team members in AWS DevOps best practices and support them in their work 10%
- Take part in all scrum ceremonies 10%
EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Developer Associate preferred
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront, S3)
- Experience driving technical leadership and quality in a cloud DevOps team, including current and future architectures, best practices, cost management, tooling selection recommendations, vendor relations
- Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements
- Experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment techniques, approaches, and tools, including experience with some of the following tools: Gitlab, Code Deploy, CircleCI
- Containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Infrastructure provisioning (at least one of Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Application monitoring (ELK stack, New Relic, Datadog, etc.)
- Experience supporting production grade systems including Linux administration, deployment, high availability & durability, practical logging & monitoring, and cost optimization in a public cloud, preferably AWS
- Ability to communicate effectively with senior technical and business stakeholders
- Solid foundation of networking and Linux administration
- Possesses a good understanding of the DevOps ‘marketplace’: Current vendors, their technologies and can articulate the key differences in their offerings
- Issue and bug tracking and wiki documentation (JIRA, Confluence)
- Software Delivery Lifecycle Process optimization
- Source code systems and branching strategies
- Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools
Vericast offers a generous total rewards benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401K matching and flexible PTO. A wide variety of additional benefits like life insurance, employee assistance and pet insurance are also available, not to mention smart and friendly coworkers!
At Vericast, we don’t just accept differences - we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our clients, and our community. As an Equal Opportunity employer, Vericast considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classifications protected by law. Applicants who have disabilities may request that accommodations be made in order to complete the selection process by contacting our Talent Acquisition team at or 616-541-3145.