The Opportunity:

We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to join our company. The Lead will join the DevOps team in support of our DevOps and engineering group. The Lead DevOps Engineer will be responsible for Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps activities. US WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIRED - No H1B or F-1 visa sponsorship is available for this position at this time. Responsibilities Lead the DevOps team and mentor other DevOps engineers Create, deploy and maintain infrastructure within our AWS accounts, using IAC/Terraform, and utilizing various AWS services, including EC2, EKS, RDS, RedShift, S3, and IAM. Create, implement and maintain automated application releases using Bitbucket Pipelines. Create, implement and maintain application and infrastructure performance monitoring using Datadog or Prometheus/Loki/Grafana Perform infrastructure quality assurance efforts Develop and maintain documentation on DevOps processes and procedures. Implement and support procedures around technical security related activities such as vulnerability scanning, user access, analysis of security monitoring outputs, and coordination of remediation activities. Advise management of problems or conflicts; escalate critical matters. Qualifications 8+ years' experience in cloud computing and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g. terraform, chef, etc) or related field. BS degree (technical or quantitative science) or equivalent work experience with evidence of proficiency and achievement in virtual infrastructure management. Expert in Linux system administration and security Expert with containerization technologies, especially Kubernetes. Proficient with code versioning tools (e.g. Git, BitBucket, etc). Proficient with CI/CD tools (e.g. BitBucket Pipelines, etc) Proficient in a scripting language such as bash and Python. Experience with cloud native tooling (Helm Charts, ArgoCD, HashiCorp Vault, Harbor, Reloader, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki) Experience with cloud native analytics tools (ElasticSearch, MongoDB, RedShift, Looker) Experience with Kafka is a big plus Excellent oral and written communications skills. #LI-TH1 MerchantE is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce.