Devops Engineer II
DevOps Engineer II building and automating AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized services using CloudFormation/CDK, GitLab CI, Docker, and ECS/EKS.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Jersey City, NJ, United States
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Middle
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, IT, or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering
- 2+ years hands-on AWS cloud environment experience
- Working knowledge of AWS services (EC2, VPC, IAM, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Route 53, ELB, Auto Scaling)
- CI/CD pipeline experience with GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, or Azure DevOps
- Infrastructure as Code with CDK and/or AWS CloudFormation
- Containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes
- Scripting/automation with Python, Bash, or PowerShell
- Production support and on-call rotation experience
Nice to have
- AWS Associate-level certification (Solutions Architect, Developer, or SysOps); DevOps Engineer Professional is a plus
- Hybrid/multi-cloud or cloud migration experience
- Monitoring/observability tools (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, OpenSearch, Splunk, Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Cloud cost optimization knowledge (Cost Explorer, Budgets, Trusted Advisor, Compute Optimizer)
Full description
Verisk Analytics is a leading global data analytics provider that delivers insights and solutions to help businesses mitigate risk and improve performance. We are committed to innovation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
We are looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer II to support the implementation, automation, and operation of AWS cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices. In this role, you will help build and maintain infrastructure, improve CI/CD pipelines, support application deployments, and contribute to the reliability, security, and performance of production systems. You will work closely with senior DevOps engineers, software engineering, security, and operations teams to deliver stable, scalable, and secure cloud solutions.
- Support the implementation, maintenance, and improvement of AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as CDK or AWS CloudFormation while following established security, governance, and operational standards.
- Build, update, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation using GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, and related DevOps tools to support reliable software delivery.
- Assist with containerized applications and cloud-native services using Docker, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and related technologies.
- Contribute to infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational improvements using CloudWatch, Splunk, and other observability tools.
- Participate in production support, incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and deployment support to help maintain reliable application environments.
- Collaborate with software engineering, security, architecture, and infrastructure teams to apply DevOps and DevSecOps practices, support cloud migration efforts, and improve operational efficiency.
- Document processes, contribute to technical standards, share knowledge with the team, and identify opportunities to improve automation, reliability, and cloud cost awareness.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure Engineering, or a related technical role.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience supporting or managing AWS cloud environments.
- Working knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Route 53, ELB, and Auto Scaling.
- Experience building, maintaining, or troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or Azure DevOps.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using CDK and/or AWS CloudFormation.
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.