Lead AWS DevSecOps Engineer - Python

Responsibilities
Perficient is seeking an AWS professional who is a cloud migration enthusiast with passion for elastic workloads and serverless frameworks. With your expertise in cloud computing, you will architect and build cloud-native systems, wrangle cloud systems’ complexity, and ensure that best practices are followed when utilizing a wide variety of cloud service offerings. You will also weigh the pros and cons of using IaaS services versus PaaS and other managed services when designing and recommending solutions.

You are expected to be a subject matter expert on AWS services, tools and best practices. You will answer questions on various cloud-native technologies and AWS services, and you will provide recommendations on what service to use and when. As such, you should have extensive hands-on experience with the varied AWS services, their limitations and alternate (non-AWS) solutions that might serve better in particular situations.

CI/CD: The role requires deep involvement in continuous delivery automation, and the integration of cloud-native services to create fully functioning, cohesive delivery pipelines. Your set of skills should include tools and systems like:

CI/CD suites such as Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis CI or GitLab CI
Source control management such as GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket
AWS build tools including: AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline
Observability: You will ensure that an application and the systems it runs on implement appropriate monitoring, logging and alerting solutions. Your experience should include:

Slack, DataDog
Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS X-Ray
Amazon SNS, Nagios
Elasticsearch, Kibana
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): You will provision cloud infrastructure in an automated manner using tools such as:

Terraform
AWS CloudFormation and, AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) (preferred - not required)
Containerization & Orchestration: You must have hands-on experience building containers and automating container orchestration - deployment, management, and scaling, using tools such as:

Docker 
Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Amazon ECS/EKS (preferred - not required)
RedHat OpenShift
Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Database: The role requires working knowledge in setting and querying:

Relational data stores: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora 
NoSQL data stores: MongoDB, AWS DynamoDB
Data warehouse: Amazon Redshift
Amazon RDS Proxy and MongoDB (preferred - not required)
Automation: In-depth programming experience is required for the implementation of solution POCs and the automation of solution resiliency validation and verification. You should be able to utilize:

AWS Lambda
Bash and, Python
Java (preferred - not required)
Security: The role includes responsibility for technical security implementation, and enforcement of compliance and security guidelines. You should have passion for cutting edge cloud services, and deep interest in cybersecurity architecture and information security technologies. Required skills include:

AWS Identity Access Management (IAM)
AWS KMS
AWS Control Tower (preferred - not required)
Identity management, federated security and SSO (preferred - not required)
Secrets management: Vault experience (preferred - not required)
Qualifications
Minimum of 5 years’ experience in the design & implementation of distributed applications
Minimum of 5 years’ experience in highly available architecture and solution implementation on AWS and on-prem data centers
Minimum of 5 years’ experience in architecting and delivering AWS solutions
Minimum of 5 years’ experience with industry patterns, methodologies, and techniques across the disaster recovery discipline
Proficient in authoring, editing and presenting technical documents.
Strong written and oral communication skills; Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff.
Preferred education:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
AWS certifications in one or more of the following is preferred - but not required:

DevOps Engineer Professional – preferred 
SysOps Administrator Associate
Solutions Architect Professional
Solutions Architect Associate 
Developer Associate