AWS​/DevOps Engineer – Infrastructure

Job Title:

AWS/Dev Ops Engineer – Infrastructure

Job :

Job Location:

Berkeley Heights, NJ

# Positions: 2

Employment Type:

W2

Candidate Constraints:
Duration:
Long Term # of Layers:0 Work Eligibility:
All Work Authorizations are Permitted

AWS, GIT, CI/CD, Ant, Maven

• Ability to build enterprise‑grade systems in AWS including the provisioning and configuration of infrastructure.
• Partner with application teams to optimize deployment and configuration strategies.
• Provide hands‑on support for existing environments to include performance of the following related tasks: software installation, patch installation, upgrades, query writing, configuration, security, system monitoring and tuning, disaster recovery planning, and release deployments.
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis for application issues to include triage, environment validation, application configuration, network/connectivity.
• Implement tools and automation for build, configuration management, continuous integration (CI), static and dynamic code analysis, deployment, and application monitoring.
• Work closely with Monitoring Engineering to ensure all relevant application and database KPI’s are implemented within the monitoring framework.
• Participate in all Production Support activities during incidents and outages. Hands‑on technical resource capable of resolving all technical issues within lower and upper environments and making recommendations for performance and capacity improvements.
• Participate in capacity planning, tuning systems stability, provisioning, performance, and scaling of the application infrastructure.
• The desire to resolve issues for a 24X7 environment in a non‑impacting yet fast‑paced resolve time.

• 5+ years’ experience with AWS services:
  • Networking: VPC / Subnets / Route Tables / VPG / Security Groups
  • Compute: EC2 / Autoscaling / Load Balancers
  • Database: RDS / Aurora / Dynamo
  • Kubernetes: EKS / ECR
  • Other: SQS / SNS / S3 / IAM / Cloud Front / Cloud Watch
• Ability to run and modify Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts in Terraform or Cloud Formation
• Knowledge debugging containers running in a Kubernetes cluster.
• Linux system administration – ability to manage and troubleshoot Linux systems and services.
• AWS provisioning and caching.

• Monitoring Applications:
  Splunk, Dynatrace
• Postgres experience
• Pulsar experience
• Bash or Python is nice to have
• Nginx: basic understanding of Nginx configurations and reverse proxies
• Networking: solid understanding of routing and networking concepts
• Agile development environment
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery – Jenkins deployments and pipelines
• Collaboration platforms such as JIRA, Confluence, Wiki, Service Now
• Containerization technologies such as Docker, Pivotal
• Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Salt, Chef, Puppet

• Bachelor’s degree required; relevant, equivalent work experience may be substituted for degree requirement.