Sr AWS DevOps Engineer

At Mitratech, we are a team of technocrats focused on building world-class products that simplify operations in the Legal, Risk, Compliance, and HR functions. We are a close-knit, globally dispersed team that thrives in an ecosystem that supports individual excellence and takes pride in its diverse and inclusive work culture centered around great people practices, learning opportunities, and having fun! Our culture is the ideal blend of entrepreneurial spirit and enterprise investment, enabling the chance to move at a rapid pace with some of the most complex, leading-edge technologies available.

For over 35 years, the experts at Mitratech have been focused on solving the complex needs. Today, we serve 20,000 client companies of all sizes globally, representing 30% of the Fortune 500 and over 500,000 users in over 160 countries.

As we continue to grow, we’re always looking for resourceful, enthusiastic, and fresh perspectives. Join our global team and see what makes Mitratech a truly exceptional place to work!

A Day in the Life:

• Design, build, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Review and contribute to architecture/infrastructure design proposals.
• Document and diagram AWS infrastructure.
• Participate in the Agile process with cross-functional development teams and contribute operational and systems expertise to the software development lifecycle.
• Contribute to organization-wide processes and standards.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using CloudFormation, AWS CDK/SDK, and Terraform.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, integration, and deployment using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Configure monitoring, reporting, and alerting of production systems to ensure high availability and performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, test, and production environments.
• Act as an escalation point for production incidents and provide timely resolution through root cause analysis and postmortem reviews.
• Mentor junior engineers and guide cross-functional teams.
• Optimize system performance, reliability, and security, including patching and secure operations.
• Maintain DevOps artifacts in git.
• Work with our AWS Technical Account Manager and solution architects to ensure we are getting the most out of our AWS resources.
• Monitor cloud spend and implement cost-saving measures while maintaining performance.
• Conduct AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews and implement best practices across operational excellence, security, reliability, performance, and cost optimization.
• Develop serverless architectures using AWS services like Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and Step Functions.

Key Technical Skills:

• Around 10 years of experience in DevOps, cloud architecture, and infrastructure management.
• Extensive experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including EC2, S3, VPC, Lambda, RDS, ECS, EKS, IAM, and more.
• Knowledge of VPC design, DNS, load balancing (ELB/ALB), and networking protocols in a cloud environment.
• Strong hands-on experience with IaC tools like CloudFormation, AWS CDK/SDK, and Terraform.
• Experience with CI/CD tools, pipeline automation and best practices.
• Familiarity with supporting Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Strong hands-on containerization experience (Kubernetes, Docker, ECS/EKS).
• Understanding of database systems (Transactional and/or NoSQL)
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Shell, or Go, with a focus on automation and infrastructure-as-code principles. 
• Exposure to security scanning and vulnerability tools.
• Experience with autoscaling and highly available architectures.
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Proficiency in monitoring and logging tools like AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or ELK stack.
• Experience with source code management tools (GitHub, Bitbucket).
• Experience with serverless architectures and event-driven design patterns.
• Familiarity with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Experience with multi-region architectures.
• Experience with disaster recovery strategies and business continuity planning.
• Experience implementing AWS security best practices and compliance with relevant regulartory standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2).
• Familiarity with AWS cost optimization strategies like Reserved Instances and Spot Instances

We are an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity at all levels. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.