DevOps & Performance Engineer
About the Position
Position Summary
JM Bullion is an online retailer of precious metals, based in Dallas, Texas. We are a young, quickly growing company, looking for enthusiastic, self-motivated, detail oriented, friendly people with an excellent work ethic to join our team. Since our founding, we have been the industry price leader and continue to exceed expectations through our weekly sales, fast shipping, and award-winning service.
Our great benefits include medical, dental and vision insurance options, life insurance, disability insurance, generous paid time off, employee discounts, and a 401k plan, to name a few.
The Cloud DevOps/Performance Engineer will work closely with the Manager of DevOps to build, manage, and automate our AWS infrastructure, as well as always ensuring the high performance of the systems.
Essential Functions
- Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and systems
- Work with technology partners to provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure
- Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing on the AWS platform
- Implement and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation in AWS
- Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
- Define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS
- Design, manage, and maintain tools to incorporate automated testing within application deployment pipelines
- Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization
- Perform related work as required and adhere to all company policies and procedures
Qualifications
Experience
- At least 3-5 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront, S3)
- Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements
- Expertise using tools like Chef for configuration management
- Experience with Docker, GitHub Actions, CI Tools and deploying applications on AWS
- Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools
- Retail ecommerce experience a BIG PLUS
- AWS DevOps certification and/or other AWS certification a BIG PLUS
Education
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering or Information System, or equivalent work experience.
Other Important Factors
- Must be a self-starter.
- Must be able to thrive in a team environment.
- Strong knowledge of cloud security.
- Ability to work with a diverse team of engineers.
- Enjoy learning new technologies and methodologies.