Primary Responsibilities
Manage and develop CI/CD pipelines.
Build and maintain cloud infrastructure, primarily in AWS.
Support Azure and GCP environments as needed.
Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or an equivalent tool.
Work extensively with Kubernetes.
Support the organization’s migration from ECS/Fargate to EKS.
Work with Istio as part of the EKS transformation.
Create and maintain New Relic dashboards.
Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure using AWS CloudWatch.
Troubleshoot production issues and support P1/P2/P3 incidents.
Work closely with application developers to troubleshoot infrastructure issues and resolve production problems quickly.
Support application releases from the infrastructure/DevOps side.
Help scale infrastructure for new features, promotions, and high-volume events.
Support cloud migration initiatives.
Key Project / Application
Speedway Cloud Migration
Major initiative involves migrating Speedway workloads from the data center to the cloud.
Candidate will contribute to the migration and associated infrastructure setup.
Cloud & Kubernetes Environment
Primary Cloud: AWS
Secondary Clouds: Azure and GCP
Current container environment:
ECS
Fargate
Target environment:
Amazon EKS
Istio
The organization is currently undergoing an ECS/Fargate → EKS transformation.
Required Technical Skills
Must Have
Strong AWS experience
Strong DevOps experience
Hands-on Kubernetes experience
EKS experience is highly preferred/important
Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code experience
Strong CI/CD experience
Production troubleshooting experience
P1/P2/P3 incident management
Monitoring/observability experience
New Relic
AWS CloudWatch
Ability to work in a hands-on environment
Good to Have
Azure
GCP
Istio
ECS/Fargate experience
Experience migrating ECS to EKS
DocumentDB
MongoDB
SQL Server
Postman
Experience supporting cloud/data-center migration projects
Database Knowledge
Candidate does not need to be a database specialist.
Should have at least a high-level understanding of:
DocumentDB
MongoDB
SQL Server
The knowledge is primarily needed to support releases and infrastructure-related activities.
RunOps / Production Support
RunOps is an important component of the role.
Approximate role split:
75% DevOps
25% RunOps
Candidate will participate in:
P1/P2/P3 incident management
Production troubleshooting
Infrastructure monitoring
Identifying infrastructure-related issues
Working with developers to resolve issues quickly
There may be an on-call expectation when needed.
Offshore team provides 24/7 coverage, so on-call responsibilities are expected to be limited/shared.
A company phone may be provided if required.
Biggest DevOps Challenges / Initiatives
ECS/Fargate to EKS migration
Current environment is ECS/Fargate.
Organization is moving toward EKS with Istio.
Speedway data-center-to-cloud migration
Support migration of Speedway infrastructure/workloads to the cloud.
Seven Rewards infrastructure scaling
Support new features, promotions, and increased demand.
Provision and configure new infrastructure as required.
Production reliability
Troubleshoot P1/P2/P3 issues.
Improve monitoring and observability.
Help development teams resolve infrastructure-related problems quickly.
Cloud infrastructure automation
Build infrastructure using Terraform/IaC.
Improve automation and CI/CD processes.