Mysa has a progressive company culture that embraces both work-life balance and remote work. The silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic, if we are to look for one, is that we’ve been positioned from a company-wide perspective to learn exactly what it takes to successfully manage a remote team – and, we’re very proud of what we’ve achieved. With our core values at heart, we have an in-depth understanding of how imperative it is that all of our people, no matter where they are located, experience our culture and family-like environment in the same manner. We also appreciate that the key to successful remote work is a foundation built upon effective communication, team-based collaboration, and access to all of the right tools. At Mysa, regardless of your location, you will be positioned for success.
We are looking for an AWS DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps Team in St. John’s, NL or remote. In this role, you’ll be responsible for managing our serverless cloud.
With thousands of customers and connected devices interacting with our cloud service, the role will involve managing highly scalable and reliable software. Building, mentoring and monitoring the team is critical to success in this role.
What You Will Do
- Maintain and configure our system monitoring tools to provide visibility into system issues, maintain effective recovery time objectives (RTOs), and to triage issues that are raised through our monitoring tools
- Define existing infrastructure using industry best practices of infrastructure as code
- Maintain our cloud CI/CD and build pipelines, and provide technical supervision to our regular cloud releases
- Maintain and configure our AWS budget in order to detect cost outliers and to identify sources for cost optimization
- Provide technical assistance to our CX team on issues that require administrative changes to our user base
- Contribute to the documentation of our administrative guidelines and procedures
- Design and implement CI/CD and other automation systems.
Who You Are
- Diploma/Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field combined with software development training
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant software development work experience
- Familiarity with SSO and identity federation, ex. AWS SSO, STS
- Familiarity with AWS management and governance, using tools such as AWS Organizations, Budget, Config, Trusted Advisor, etc.
- Knowledge with system monitoring tools, such as Amazon Cloudwatch and New Relic
- Familiarity with cloud CI/CD and IaC tools, such as Cloudformation and CDK.
- Knowledge of GitHub Actions would be considered an asset
- Familiarity with AWS serverless solutions, such as AWS Lambda, AWS SQS. AWS SNS, Amazon DynamoDB and API Gateway, would be considered an asset.
- Ability to lead, drive and implement highly scalable and complex solutions.
- A strong understanding of Security best practices.
- Familiarity with unix based operating systems
- Experience with container management systems such as Docker, ECS and microservice architectures
- Experience with modern languages and frameworks. JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and React would be considered an asset
- Must be knowledgeable about industry trends and best practices
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes would considered an asset
- Analytical thinker, with a creative mind, and an adaptable nature
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly present solutions, while efficiently multi-tasking various priorities