Careers at Uturn
Principal DevOps Architect
Overview
Uturn Data Solutions is a technology services firm helping businesses achieve digital transformation through the use of cloud technologies. We are market leaders in leveraging the power of AWS to accelerate innovation, increase operational efficiency, and help our clients future-proof their businesses.
As one of the top AWS partners in the Midwest, we specialize in AWS Migration, designing and implementing cloud native architectures, building analytics platforms, and enabling automation through DevOps. Uturn is an Advanced Tier AWS Consulting Partner and AWS DevOps Competency Partner and headquartered in Chicago with offices in the River North neighborhood.
Uturn Data Solutions is looking for a Principal DevOps Architect with excellent interpersonal skills who has proven experience using DevOps methodologies to implement solutions in AWS. The Principal DevOps Architect, based in Chicago, will be on the front line of client engagements to help lead the way for cloud adoption.
To be successful during the interview process, a candidate should be familiar with material found on the AWS DevOps Professional exam and have extensive knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (specifically Terraform), at least one CI/CD tool, and be well versed in modern observability practices. To be exceptionally successful, the candidate should be able to explain their answers clearly and concisely and give examples as well as be able to whiteboard their solution.
Extensive experience with Windows or Linux and a major cloud provider are a must for this role. The most successful candidates will be comfortable speaking with and to both executives and engineers and have the ability to walk the talk when necessary, as well as have a demonstrable expertise in a specific domain such as Windows, Linux, Containerization, Serverless, Machine Learning, or Software Development.
If you are looking for the right opportunity to advance your career and want to work with a group of highly skilled, committed and energetic professionals to solve big challenges using cloud technology, this role is for you.
We are looking for sharp, disciplined, and self-motivated individuals who have a passion for utilizing cloud solutions to solve real world business challenges for our customers. In collaboration with other leaders in the firm, you will focus on designing, building, migrating, and optimizing solutions leveraging AWS services.
What You’ll Do
- Evaluate client needs and design implementation plans that will define client engagements
- Lead engagements with clients creating and designing DevOps solutions in AWS environments
- Leverage common Infrastructure as Code tools to define AWS environments and workloads
- Utilize Configuration Management and Continuous Deployment tools to orchestrate delivery of applications to stateless and stateful stacks and resources
- Design and implement migration plans for bare metal and VM hosted applications to containers and serverless functions
- Modernize and migrate operations of non scalable and/or non highly available platforms to a highly available and scalable architecture (web applications, databases, storage, etc).
- Modernize and migrate on-premise data and applications to AWS
- Implement process automation for application and platform operations and delivery
- Implement optimized AWS architectures that account for cost, availability, and scalability needs
- Evaluate existing AWS implementations in respect to the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Communicate regularly with both clients and internal resources about project status and changes
Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree strongly preferred
- Certifications related to cloud provider strongly preferred (or attained in first 90 days)
Experience
- 7+ years system engineering/administration experience on Linux or Windows
- 7+ years of experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- 3+ years of experience with AWS
- 3-5+ years of practical experience with common “DevOps” concepts such as:
- CI/CD
- Observability
- Infrastructure as Code
- Containerization, Microservices, and Serverless
- Strong scripting experience on Linux or Windows (Bash/Fish/ZSH, Python, PowerShell) including use of the AWS SDK or CLI
- 2-3+ years of experience managing common security controls (IAM, Least Privilege, Firewall, Patching, Antivirus, etc.)
- Strong understanding of enterprise, network, system and application-level architecture
- Experience utilizing common source control systems (git, hg, subversion), branching strategies, and project structure/organization
- Excellent communication skills
- Proven ability to effectively communicate with all levels of staff and management
Benefits
Great benefits and perks including flexible hours, excellent Blue Cross PPO medical, Dental/Vision, LTD/STD/AD&D/Life coverage, on-going training, River North location or home office, transit reimbursement, on-going technical training, and doughnuts, lots of doughnuts!
Uturn Data Solutions is a Chicago-based Advanced Tier AWS Consulting Partner focused on data strategy and AWS cloud adoption. We help commercial and public sector organizations leverage the AWS cloud to transform their data into real business value.
Qualified candidates can send their resume to careers@uturndata.com
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