Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Rackspace Technology is a leading provider of expertise and managed services across all the major public and private cloud technologies. We’ve evolved Fanatical Support to encompass the entire customer journey — providing Fanatical Experience™ from first consultation to daily operations. Our passionate experts combine the power of proactive, always-on service and expertise with best-in-class tools and automation to deliver technology when and how our customers need it.

Using cloud-native approaches based on leading DevOps practices, we work at the forefront of technology to help organisations modernize applications and data, build in the leading security solutions and deploy everything on the right cloud infrastructure for maximum effectiveness.

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with skills in AWS to deliver cloud transformational outcomes into our clients. Ideally, you will have experience working in a consulting role, leading other engineers to deliver automated, secure and robust cloud solutions.

We like people who get involved in all levels of technical discussions, from architecture to hands on coding. We are looking for a strong technical expert, with experience leading world-class teams of engineers on complex projects from inception to delivery.

You will join a friendly, highly-collaborative team in Poland with immediate access to the latest certifications and world-class training schemes!

Work location: Fully remote (you must live in Poland).

Responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of scalable software services, alongside engineering and architecture teams. Focus on the hands on delivery and implementation of technology solutions.
• Assess client needs and recommend technology solutions for the successful Build and Deployment of complex and scalable cloud based solutions
• Execution of Cloud engineering tasks within migration sprint cycles aligned to best practices and templates within a customer project team.
• Build out of new customer cloud solutions using cloud native components.
• Extend and enhance business value, making technical decisions which impact the success of assigned projects i.e. How/What.
• Usage of foundational architecture and components to build out automated cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines and supporting services frameworks
• Present architecture to external stakeholders of varying levels, from Developers to Senior Customer Leadership.
• Brief senior leadership and end users at varying levels of familiarity with cloud technologies, about the technology selections, best practices, and benefits.
• Enable major DevOps projects for successful production state
• Provide technical expertise and resolving complex technical issues
• Lead critical deployments and align with the customer, creating direct value for individual projects.
• Lead technical root cause analysis
• Manage the production change approval process

Job Requirements:

• You’ll be a strong technical expert, with experience on complex projects from inception to delivery, to deliver automated, secure and robust cloud infrastructure solutions. Using your deep technical expertise, you will help customers optimize their workloads by providing application focused assistance to build, deploy, integrate, scale and heal using native AWS and 3rd party toolchains and automation oriented agile principles.
• Through both hands-on and consultative approaches, you will be responsible for supporting customers with tasks including provisioning resources and modifying Cloud environments, performing upgrades, and addressing day-to-day customer issues. You’re happy to get involved in all levels of technical discussions, from architecture to hands on coding.
• A good grounding in infrastructure technology is highly advantageous, as is a programming background. Leveraging personal subject matter expertise, working closely with peers, the role will be accountable for delivering engineering consulting services in a client-facing role, often on-site with customers. You’ll be the voice of Rackspace within the customer.

Technical Skills

• Proven hands-on experience with AWS.
• Previous exposure to large-scale system design.
• Technical Tooling: Terraform + Git/Version Control eg: GitLab/GitHub
• Specialty: Landing Zone + Networking + Identity Foundation + Security + CI/CD Pipelines + GitHub Actions.
• Other Skills: Agile/SAFe + GxP/ISO27001 + JIRA/Confluence
• Preferred Coding Language: HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) + JSON + Typescript + Go.
• Preferred Certifications: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner + any of the following; AWS Certified Developer, Associate (DVA), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C02), AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate, AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty (ANS-C01), AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate (SAA), AWS Certified Security - Specialty (SCS).
• Thorough understanding of AWS IAM roles, profiles and permission sets
• Knowledge and usage of GitHub repositories, Connectors, Webhooks
• Demonstrable experience of Terraform, registry management, published and custom providers
• Proven experience of creating and managing CI/CD pipelines, workers, and agents
• Proven experience of automated code testing and reviews
• Knowledge of Open Policy Agent, Lacework Query Language would be a bonus.

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About Rackspace Technology

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.

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Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.