DevOps Specialist

Overview

At Newforma, you’ll help shape the future of project information management for architects, engineers, and contractors worldwide. Join a team that’s trusted by over 1,500 firms to simplify how they work. Together, we’re creating tools that connect people to the information they need, faster and smarter. Let’s build something great.

We’re seeking a talented Dev Ops Specialist to join our Platform Engineering team and help build, scale, and optimize our cloud infrastructure. As Newforma transitions from Azure to AWS, you  play a crucial role in creating robust automation, reliable deployment pipelines, and infrastructure that supports hundreds of thousands of users. This is an exciting opportunity to work with modern cloud technologies, contribute to a significant cloud migration initiative, and directly impact the developer experience for our engineering teams.

• Infrastructure & Automation:
  Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS using infrastructure-as-code practices with Pulumi, Terraform, AWS CDK, or Cloud Formation
• Infrastructure & Automation:
  Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes
• Infrastructure & Automation:
  Develop and maintain scripts and tools to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual work
• Infrastructure & Automation:
  Support the migration of infrastructure and services from Azure to AWS, following best practices and migration patterns
• Infrastructure & Automation:
  Implement and manage container orchestration using Kubernetes (EKS) and Docker
• Infrastructure & Automation:
  Create reusable infrastructure modules and templates that development teams can leverage
• Infrastructure & Automation:
  Maintain and optimize existing Azure infrastructure during the transition period

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Git Hub Actions, Azure Pipelines, AWS Code Pipeline, or Jenkins
• Implement automated testing, building, and deployment workflows for .NET/C# and React applications
• Optimize build and deployment processes to reduce cycle times and improve developer productivity
• Integrate security scanning, code quality checks, and automated testing into pipelines
• Create and maintain deployment strategies including blue-green deployments, canary releases, and rollback mechanisms
• Document pipeline processes and provide support to development teams

• Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using Cloud Watch, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar tools
• Design and maintain observability infrastructure to track system health, performance, and availability
• Develop and maintain dashboards for infrastructure and application metrics
• Participate in on-call rotation to support production systems and respond to incidents
• Conduct post-incident reviews and implement improvements to prevent recurrence
• Work with development teams to establish SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
• Optimize system performance, resource utilization, and cost efficiency

• Work on daily tasks in collaboration with other members from the platform engineering team
• Partner with development teams to understand their infrastructure and tooling needs
• Provide guidance on cloud best practices, deployment strategies, and architectural patterns
• Support developers with troubleshooting deployment issues and infrastructure problems
• Collaborate with the Senior Dev Sec Ops  Engineer to ensure security best practices are integrated into all systems
• Work with the Lead Software Architect to align infrastructure with architectural decisions
• Participate in agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives
• Create and maintain documentation for infrastructure, runbooks, and operational procedures

• Manage and optimize AWS services including ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, Dynamo
  
  DB, Cloud Front, and Route 53
• Implement and maintain secrets management solutions using AWS Secrets Manager or Parameter Store
• Configure and manage networking components including VPCs, subnets, security groups, and load balancers
• Set up and maintain database infrastructure, backups,…