DevOps Engineer

Primary Responsibilities

Manage and develop CI/CD pipelines.

Build and maintain cloud infrastructure, primarily in AWS.

Support Azure and GCP environments as needed.

Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or an equivalent tool.

Work extensively with Kubernetes.

Support the organization’s migration from ECS/Fargate to EKS.

Work with Istio as part of the EKS transformation.

Create and maintain New Relic dashboards.

Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure using AWS CloudWatch.

Troubleshoot production issues and support P1/P2/P3 incidents.

Work closely with application developers to troubleshoot infrastructure issues and resolve production problems quickly.

Support application releases from the infrastructure/DevOps side.

Help scale infrastructure for new features, promotions, and high-volume events.

Support cloud migration initiatives.

Key Project / Application

Speedway Cloud Migration

Major initiative involves migrating Speedway workloads from the data center to the cloud.

Candidate will contribute to the migration and associated infrastructure setup.

Cloud & Kubernetes Environment

Primary Cloud: AWS

Secondary Clouds: Azure and GCP

Current container environment

ECS

Fargate

Target environment

Amazon EKS

Istio The organization is currently undergoing an ECS/Fargate → EKS transformation.

Required Technical Skills

Must Have

Strong AWS experience

Strong DevOps experience

Hands-on Kubernetes experience

EKS experience is highly preferred/important

Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code experience

Strong CI/CD experience

Production troubleshooting experience

P1/P2/P3 incident management

Monitoring/observability experience

New Relic

AWS CloudWatch

Ability to work in a hands-on environment

Good to Have

Azure

GCP

Istio

ECS/Fargate experience

Experience migrating ECS to EKS

DocumentDB

MongoDB

SQL Server

Postman

Experience supporting cloud/data-center migration projects

Database Knowledge

Candidate does not need to be a database specialist.

Should have at least a high-level understanding of:

DocumentDB

MongoDB

SQL Server The knowledge is primarily needed to support releases and infrastructure-related activities.

RunOps / Production Support

RunOps is an important component of the role.

Approximate role split

75% DevOps

25% RunOps

Candidate will participate in

P1/P2/P3 incident management

Production troubleshooting

Infrastructure monitoring

Identifying infrastructure-related issues

Working with developers to resolve issues quickly

There may be an on-call expectation when needed.

Offshore team provides 24/7 coverage, so on-call responsibilities are expected to be limited/shared.

A company phone may be provided if required.

Biggest DevOps Challenges / Initiatives

ECS/Fargate to EKS migration

Current environment is ECS/Fargate.

Organization is moving toward EKS with Istio.

Speedway data-center-to-cloud migration

Support migration of Speedway infrastructure/workloads to the cloud.

Seven Rewards infrastructure scaling

Support new features, promotions, and increased demand.

Provision and configure new infrastructure as required.

Production reliability

Troubleshoot P1/P2/P3 issues.

Improve monitoring and observability.

Help development teams resolve infrastructure-related problems quickly.

Cloud infrastructure automation

Build infrastructure using Terraform/IaC.

Improve automation and CI/CD processes.