MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years hands-on experience in an SRE/DevOps role supporting production systems.
• Production experience supporting Linux-based infrastructure and administering services on AWS (RDS, VPC, ECR, CloudWatch, Cloud Formation, Lambda, API Gateway and on-premises.
• Demonstrable experience with deployment technologies such as Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins and Terraform. (or similar technologies)
• Focused on documenting changes so anyone on the team can come up-to-speed on changes quickly.
• Experience implementing rolling upgrades. (canary, blue/green, etc.)
• Strong scripting and tooling skillset. (Bash, Python, JS, etc.)
• Self-motivated, resourceful and a persistent problem-solving aptitude.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Professional documentation, presentation, and planning skills
• Excellent time management skills and proven ability to multi-task competing priorities
• SOC, NERC CIP, and other compliance standards knowledge a plus

EDUCATION:

• BSc/Ba in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline

EMPLOYMENT PERKS:

• We provide each employee with professional growth opportunities through succession planning, up-skilling, and certifications
• Tuition and certification reimbursement
• Employee Referral Programs
• Company Sponsored Events
  Fortress is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employees and applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Fortress Information Security takes part in the E-Verify process for all new hires.
  For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will have to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis

• Transition applications from traditional (non-containerized) Ansible deployments to containerized, orchestrated deployments in AWS (Amazon Web Services) and on-premises environments.
• Build upon current CI/CD efforts to support different deployment strategies. (Blue/Green, Canary, etc.)
• Support Development/QA/UAT efforts by building an environment for anyone in the company to test drive a release anywhere in the development lifecycle.
• Improve upon common infrastructure for developers, such as CI/CD pipelines, log/application monitoring, cluster management, and configuration management.
• Migrate application secrets and configuration from Ansible Vault to Hashicorp Vault.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning during deployment.
• Handle code deployments in all environments. (cloud, on-premises)
• Implement tools to monitor and alert with respect to service level metrics and objectives.
• Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations.
• Monitor relevant systems for availability and performance.
• Available to support daytime and after business hours release activities.