Lead DevOps Engineer

S&P Global

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Impact:

Joining our team in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the candidate will be responsible for supporting and expanding our cloud infrastructure, monitoring and alerting frameworks, onboarding/migration projects, and interacting with the wider DevOps, QA, and development teams. We are looking for someone with proven DevOps experience who has development and operational skills and can deliver a secure and structured automated solutions to our operational tasks.

Responsibilities:

Collaborate with software development teams to improve application reliability, performance, security and scalability;
Provide BAU Production support, and resolve issues either spotted by monitoring or reported by users before causing business impact;
Develop scripts in Terraform, Python and Unix shell scripting to automate tasks and streamline processes;
Design, implement, and manage infrastructure using Terraform on AWS cloud platform utilizing best practices;
Comfortable with writing database queries and performing database management with an added advantage of experience in Document-Oriented Data Bases , AWS storage solutions;
Set up and configure monitoring solutions, including Grafana, PagerDuty, Splunk to ensure system health and respond to incidents promptly;
Willing to work one weekend per month, as required.

What We’re Looking For:

Basic Qualifications:

8+ years of relevant DevOps and Software Engineering experience;
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Relevant certifications;
Proven experience working with AWS cloud technologies, GitHub, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines;
Familiar with Database and Database query (Document-Oriented Data Bases experience preferred but not mandatory, good experience on scripting or coding would be a plus);
Familiarity with monitoring solutions/logging solutions such as PagerDuty/Splunk and other industry-standard tools;
Linux and networking knowledge. Good understanding of AWS network configurations such as Routing, DNS, Load Balancing, IAM, security group;
Demonstrated problem-solving ability and a proactive approach to identifying, resolving issues and raising improvement opportunities;
Ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment and handle multiple priorities;
Good written and verbal communication skills, including experience speaking to technical and business audiences;
Be able to work independently, or drive a group of people, to work on improvement projects.