Senior AWS DevOps Engineer (EE+)

Rackspace Technology is a leading provider of expertise and managed services across all the major public and private cloud technologies. We’ve evolved Fanatical Support to encompass the entire customer journey — providing Fanatical Experience™ from first consultation to daily operations. Our passionate experts combine the power of proactive, always-on service and expertise with best-in-class tools and automation to deliver technology when and how our customers need it.

Elastic Engineering+ is a new service model designed to help customers build and operate modern cloud environments. While traditional cloud managed services are fixed scope and focused on infrastructure operations, Rackspace Elastic Engineering helps customers embrace a cloud native approach while delivering ongoing innovation, modernization, and transformation, in addition to world-class 24x7x365 operations.

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with skills in AWS, and experience of running public infrastructure to support and operate a complex hybrid environment. We like people who get involved in all levels of technical discussions, from architecture to hands on coding. You will join a friendly, highly-collaborative team in Poland with immediate access to the latest certifications and world-class training schemes!

On-call: You will join a weekly rota and can expect to be on-call roughly once every 6 weeks, receiving additional compensation.

Work location: Remote (you must live in Poland).

Responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of scalable software services, alongside engineering and architecture teams.
• Execution of Cloud engineering tasks within migration sprint cycles aligned to best practices and templates within a customer project team.
• Build out of new customer cloud solutions using cloud native components.
• Usage of foundational architecture and components to build out automated cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines and supporting services frameworks
• Present architecture to clients of varying levels, from Developers, Business Analysts and Senior Client Leadership.
• Brief senior leadership and end users at varying levels of familiarity with cloud technologies, about the technology selections, best practices, and benefits.

Job Requirements:

• You’ll be a strong technical expert, with experience on complex projects from inception to delivery, to deliver automated, secure and robust cloud infrastructure solutions. Using your deep technical expertise, you will help customers optimize their workloads by providing application focused assistance to build, deploy, integrate, scale and heal using native AWS and 3rd party toolchains and automation oriented agile principles.
• Through both hands-on and consultative approaches, you will be responsible for supporting customers with tasks including provisioning resources and modifying Cloud environments, performing upgrades, and addressing day-to-day customer issues. You’re happy to get involved in all levels of technical discussions, from architecture to hands on coding.
• A good grounding in infrastructure technology is highly advantageous, as is a programming background. Leveraging personal subject matter expertise, working closely with peers, the role will be accountable for delivering engineering consulting services in a client-facing role, often on-site with customers. You’ll be the voice of Rackspace within the customer.

Skills & Experience:

• Proven hands-on experience with AWS.
• Experience building cloud automation, including CI/CD pipelines using technologies equivalent to Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker.
• Scripting and automation methods such as Terraform, Ansible, Python, YAML, Go.
• Technical skills in as many of these as possible: Public Cloud architecture (AWS), PaaS (Containers, Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, FaaS etc.)
• Strong notions of security best practices (e.g. using IAM Roles, KMS, etc.)
• Previous exposure to large-scale system design.
• Maintains an in-depth knowledge of cloud related technologies and can articulate best practice approaches and practices.
• Strong communication skills, customer facing experience desirable.

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About Rackspace Technology

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.

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Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.