AWS Devops Engineer

Role: AWS Devops Engineer

Location: Vancouver,BC (Hybrid)

Duration:Long term Project

Our Purpose:

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Overview:

The Identity Solutions program within the Services group works to prevent fraud by securing a user’s identity through their devices, identity information, and usage patterns such as passive Biometrics. Comprised of best-in-class solutions from Ekata (a Mastercard company), we use complex machine learning, combined with device, identity, and transaction information from billions of transactions to reduce user friction to enable highly secure real time transactions.

The Identity Solutions – ‘Cloud Infrastructure - Edge’ team is looking for a ‘Sr Software Engineer (DevOps)’ to help support, design, and build our highly available and scalable AWS Cloud infrastructure which our products are built on. The team builds infrastructure for Engineering projects, extends our platform for the future, and improves the availability and performance of our applications. This position also designs, develops systems, automation, and tools to help make it easier for Engineering teams to deploy services in a fast, automated and reliable fashion.

In this role You will:

· Be a team and highly accountable member in a geo-diverse team. Mentoring the more

junior members and being an SME.

· Plan, design, build, and scale our infrastructure.

· Work with tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Argo CD, Terraform, CloudFormation, Resource

Manager and many more to ensure that our stack is well represented as Infrastructure as

Code.

· Manage, design, and improve security and availability monitoring and processes for all

services, ensure defined security policies are consistently implemented across all

environments.

· Deploy and supervise workloads to cloud environments, proven experience with all of the

core services within AWS including instance management, IAM configuration, Database,

Caching and general support/troubleshooting.

· Have a deep understanding of the core components required to run Kubernetes (EKS)

and be able to build a cluster from scratch or scale out if needed.

· Have perfected load balancing, service mesh and always looking for ways to improve

availability, response time, and uptime.

· Maintain, and manage quality documentation for systems owned by the Infrastructure

team.

· Design, build, and improve monitoring tools to identify and resolve issues before they

happen. Mainly with Prometheus.

· Help and advise other teams, troubleshoot and solve failures and performance problems,

participate in on-call rotations.

· Have a basic passion for working with Go, Python, Rust or even Bash to build custom

tools and improve system integration. Take code ownership to the next level and act as

an advocate for writing code that aligns with industry best practice.

All About You:

· Excellent spoken and written English skills. Is a team player and values collaboration.

· BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

· Led / been a leader within a team and projects.

· AWS Networking Services

· Proficiency with:

o Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

o AWS Direct Connect

o Transit Gateway

o Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

o Route 53, Resolver endpoints, DNS firewall

o Security Groups and NACLs

o AWS Firewall

o VPC flow log analysis

· Understanding of hybrid connectivity (VPNs, Direct Connect) and multi-region

architectures

· Understand implementation of latency reduction techniques and tools - iperf, sockperf

· Proven deep skills with Linux or UNIX systems and related protocols/software with 3+

years’ experience. Robust DevOps and/or BizOps experiecne.

· A command of Linux systems including troubleshooting, memory management, tuning,

I/O subsystem, RAID, and security.

· Experience with provisioning tools such as Ansible/Chef/Terraform.

· Experience with Jenkins or other CI/CD tools.

· Programming aptitude in Go, Python, and Bash.

· Knowledge of database systems such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.

· Experience building and deploying Containers, including orchestration tools such as EKS,

Kubernetes, Mesos, or Docker Swarm.

· Experience with AWS cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)