The company: We are a global custom software development and IT project staffing organization without geographic restrictions; we operate globally, navigating technology and business challenges with expertise. Our U.S. headquarters are in San Diego, California and we also have strategically located development centers in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay.  Our Latin America headquarters are based in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with a branch in São Paulo.  For over two decades, we have been globally recognized in the software and innovation market for delivering projects with added value, crafted by agile teams of skilled professionals. Check out our international page at www.ntconsultcorp.com.

The project: We are looking for a skilled DevOps professional to join a remote project for a US-based client in the mortgage insurance field. This is a high-impact role that requires deep expertise in DevOps practices and a senior-level ability to work autonomously in a high-performance environment.

Responsibilities:

• Work in high-performance teams to develop and maintain tools for provisioning, configuring, deploying, and monitoring various stacks in a scalable and resilient infrastructure.
• Understand the challenges and needs of a microservices project, both in terms of infrastructure operations and the software development lifecycle.
• Seek solutions to support business strategies and goals.
• Automate tasks within the software integration and delivery pipeline.
• Manage infrastructure capacity.
• Analyze system performance and implement solutions to address performance and cost issues.
• Handle incidents and participate in root cause analysis and resolution.

Requirements:

• Experience composing, accessing, and distributing virtual networks in AWS environments (VPC and cross-account networking setup with Transit Gateway).
• Experience with Infra as Code with Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Experience with high-scale microservices infrastructure.
• Experience with service mesh using ISTIO (Kiali, Jaeger).
• Knowledge of Git and versioning processes using GitFlow.
• Experience in software deployment automation (Argo Events and pipeline templates).
• Understanding of Cloud-Native principles (12-Factor/15-Factor).
• Experience with containerization solutions using Docker or Podman, including Dockerfile customization.
• Experience in container orchestration with Kubernetes (AWS EKS and AWS ECS).
• Experience with AWS environments using the following product stack:
• Databases & Storage: Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon S3.
• Container & Networking: Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS Direct Connect, AWS Transit Gateway, VPC Peering.
• Infrastructure & Load Balancing: AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) in private networks, AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB), Network Load Balancer (NLB), Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB).
• Caching & Performance: Amazon ElastiCache.
• Experience with GitOps tools (Argo Events, Workflows, and CD).
• Ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams (engaging with application development, networking, security, cost management, and operations teams).

Preferred Skills:

• Experience developing CI/CD pipelines for Java and Node.js applications, supported by NGINX as an application server and CDN solutions (Cloudflare and CloudFront).
• Experience deploying on Databricks environments.
• Experience supporting audit and regulatory compliance processes in financial, banking, or insurance sectors.
• Knowledge of OWASP security principles.