Staff AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer

About the position

Shift4 (NYSE: FOUR) is boldly redefining commerce by simplifying complex payments ecosystems across the world. As the leader in commerce-enabling technology, Shift4 powers billions of transactions annually for hundreds of thousands of businesses in virtually every industry. This role is an onsite role based at any of the following Shift4 locations: Las Vegas, NV / Tampa, FL / Atlanta, GA / Morrisville, NC / Center Valley, PA. Relocation assistance may be available.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Cloud infrastructure for our mission critical cloud platforms using AWS technologies and best practices.
• Lead team of senior and mid-level engineers, manage projects, delegate tasks and mentor others.
• Implement Infrastructure as code capabilities for our complex Cloud environments.
• Ensure the reliability and stability of application platforms by implementing observability, monitoring, alerts and dashboards for critical components.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, and other team members to achieve elegant solutions which satisfy business needs, goals, and objectives.
• Build and provide recommendations for monitoring processes across engineering teams.
• Diagnose and resolve issues with deployed and/or released systems using a variety of techniques.
• Be the first line of defense and response when it comes to production outages.
• Coordinate with development teams for frequent production releases.

Requirements

• 7+ years DevOps experience to include working with AWS infrastructure and services.
• 3+ years of experience leading teams and technical projects.
• 3+ years of experience working with container technology.
• 3+ years of hand-on experience working with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and Amazon EKS.
• 3+ years of experience with Terraform.
• Be attentive to details and show aptitude for problem solving.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP.
• Experience with Agile project delivery.
• Strives to ensure that high uptime requirements are met and issues are handled in a proactive manner.
• Great interpersonal, verbal and written skills including documentation of complex technical solutions.
• Can work collaboratively or solo if required and have the willingness to change tasks and priorities when necessary.
• Driven and wants to be part of a highly productive team that delivers products on a continual basis.

Nice-to-haves

• 5+ years working with CI/CD tooling, hands on experience with GitLab.
• Strong AWS cloud engineering experience.
• Experience integrating monitoring tools into application support.
• Experience working with distributed cloud deployments.
• Certifications with any of the following is a plus: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified DevOps Developer - Master (CDCD-001).