Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Rackspace Technology is a leading provider of expertise and managed services across all the major public and private cloud technologies. We’ve evolved Fanatical Support to encompass the entire customer journey — providing Fanatical Experience™ from first consultation to daily operations. Our passionate experts combine the power of proactive always-on service and expertise with best-in-class tools and automation to deliver technology when and how our customers need it.

Elastic Engineering+ is a new service model designed to help customers build and operate modern cloud environments.  While traditional cloud managed services are fixed scope and focused on infrastructure operations Rackspace Elastic Engineering helps customers embrace a cloud native approach while delivering ongoing innovation modernization and transformation in addition to world-class 24x7x365 operations.

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with skills in AWS and experience of running public infrastructure to support and operate complex hybrid environments. We like people who get involved in all levels of technical discussions from architecture to hands on coding. You will join a friendly highly-collaborative team in Poland with immediate access to the latest certifications and world-class training schemes!

On-call: You will join a weekly rota and can expect to be on-call roughly once every 6 weeks receiving additional compensation.

Work location: Remote (you must live in Poland).

Primary Objectives

• Lead critical deployments and align with the needs of the customer

• Ensure high quality delivery of the cloud service from the technical perspective

• Identify and drive technical/deployment improvements

• Consult with our customer’s individual AWS project teams regarding architecture compliance and all other requirements

• Enable the DevOps projects for successful production state

• Collect ideas from the projects and feed back to Cloud Management Office and architecture management

• Identify possible risks in the projects’ deployments and help mitigate them without direct technical hands-on

• Lead technical root cause analysis

• Create direct value for the individual projects not slideware

• Manage production change approval process

Job Requirements:

• Long term AWS hands-on experience with proven track record

• Experience in deploying and configuration of CI/CD pipelines

• Experience in multi account/subscription IaC structures

• Practical experience in DevOps and SysOps model

• AWS Solution Architect certification

• Experience in AWS designs for different applications with proven track record

• Practical experience in DevOps and SysOps model

• You work in a joint team with the customer’s IT Amazon Web Services ProServ and Rackspace with a high dree of mutual respect and cooperation

Person Specification

• Advisory argumentation and convincing skills

• Ability to assume customer’s perspective

• Take over accountability and risks

• Be a technical ambassador between the customer's Cloud Management Office and Rackspace PS service delivery

• High identification with Rackspace as a company

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About Rackspace Technology

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges designing solutions that scale building and managing those solutions and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work year after year according to Fortune Forbes and Glassdoor we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology empower customers and deliver the future.

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Though we’re all different Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age color disability gender reassignment or identity or expression genetic information marital or civil partner status pregnancy or maternity status military or veteran status nationality ethnic or national origin race religion or belief sexual orientation or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know.