Our client is North America's leading school transportation provider, managing 5 million student journeys daily. N-iX is a strategic partner driving their digital transformation, remodeling the technology landscape for 55,000 employees. This role involves implementing and maintaining monitoring, alerting, and incident-response processes, collaborating with teams to resolve infrastructure issues, participating in on-call rotations, and setting up AWS accounts, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure using CloudFormation.

Must Have

• Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident-response processes
• Collaborate with support and dev teams to investigate and resolve infrastructure-related issues
• Participate in on-call rotations for critical incidents
• Set up AWS accounts and organizational units using AWS security best practices
• Set up complex CI/CD pipelines from scratch using AWS native tools
• Set up and manage infrastructure using CloudFormation
• Communicate with stakeholders for proper integration with customer's infrastructure
• Design, implement, and manage cloud-based multi-account infrastructure on AWS
• Implement AWS security best practices
• Develop and maintain AWS ECS clusters
• Solid expertise with AWS services (VPC, ECS, RDS/Aurora, ALB, CloudFront, API Gateway, Cognito, IAM, SecretsManager)
• Provision and manage infrastructure using CloudFormation
• Set up CI/CD process using AWS native tools (Code commit, deploy, pipeline, build)
• Experience using Datadog or New Relic services
• Upper-Intermediate or Advanced English level

Good to Have

• Experience with AWS DMS and AWS MSK
• Experience working with multi-cloud environments
• Experience working with highly available cross-region applications and respective DR mechanisms

Perks & Benefits

• Flexible working format (remote, office-based or flexible)
• Competitive salary and good compensation package
• Personalized career growth
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
• Education reimbursement
• Memorable anniversary presents
• Corporate events and team buildings
• Other location-specific benefits

Senior DevOps Engineer (MD Support)

Project:

Largest student transportation provider

About the project:

Our customer is the leading school transportation provider in North America, being the owner of more than a half of all yellow school buses in the United States. Every day, the company completes 5 million student journeys, moving more passengers than all U.S. airlines combined and delivers reliable, quality services for 1,100 school districts.

N-iX has built a successful cooperation with the client delivering a range of complex initiatives. As a result, N-iX has been selected as a strategic long-term partner to drive the digital transformation on an enterprise level, fully remodeling the technology landscape for 55,000 employees and millions of people across North America.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident-response processes to ensure stability and quick recovery of production environments.
• Collaborate with the support and dev teams to investigate and resolve infrastructure-related issues, providing root-cause analysis and continuous improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Participate in on-call rotations to provide timely support during critical incidents
• Set up AWS accounts and organizational units inside the organization using AWS security best practices
• Set up complex CI/CD pipelines from scratch using AWS native tools
• Set up and manage infrastructure using CloudFormation
• Communicate with stakeholders to ensure proper integration with customer's infrastructure

Must-Have Skills:

• Proven work experience as a DevOps Engineer, with a minimum of 5+ years.
• Design, implement, and manage cloud-based multi-account infrastructure on AWS
• Experience implementing AWS security best practices
• Develop and maintain AWS ECS clusters, ensuring scalability, high availability, and optimal performance
• Solid expertise with AWS services such as: VPC, ECS, RDS/Aurora, ALB, CloudFront, API Gateway, Cognito, IAM, SecretsManager
• Provision and manage infrastructure using CloudFormation
• Set up CI/CD process using AWS native tools (Сode commit, deploy, pipeline, build)
• Experience using Datadog or New Relic services
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
• Effective communication and collaboration abilities, with the capacity to work effectively in a team environment.
• Upper-Intermediate or Advanced English level

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with AWS DMS and AWS MSK
• Experience working with multi-cloud environments
• Experience working with (or implementing) highly available cross-region applications and respective DR mechanisms

We offer*:

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Personalized career growth
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
• Education reimbursement
• Memorable anniversary presents
• Corporate events and team buildings
• Other location-specific benefits

*not applicable for freelancers