Sr. Infrastructure Engineer

Sr. Infrastructure Engineer/Dev Ops AWS Engineer

Remote PST

6+ month contract

What You’ll Be Doing

• Create and modify Jenkins pipelines to support CI/CD of Kubernetes microservices
• Work with Software Development teams to write and tune their application Helm charts for EKS
• Create new Terraform architecture and modules to provision AWS resources
• Guide application teams on best practices in the cloud
• Support and enable teams to migrate from on-prem environments into AWS
• Troubleshoot issues with EKS, AMI, EC2, ASG, LBs, networking and Jenkins pipelines

What Your Background Looks Like

• 4+ years and expert level experience and understanding of Kubernetes applications
• 6+ years and expert level experience and understanding of Terraform
• 8+ years and expert level experience and understanding of AWS services
• EKS, EC2, ASG, SG, ALB/NLB/WAF, Routing, Networking, Route
  53, EC2 Image Builder
• 8+ years and expert level experience writing Jenkins files and Jenkins Shared Libraries

Required Soft Skills & Experience

• Experience with leading application migrations into the cloud according to best practices, standards and cloud-native architecture.
• You are passionate about building and running distributed systems at scale in production. You understand the challenges and trade-offs to be made when building and deploying systems to production.
• Very strong written and verbal communication as you will be driving both requirements and implementation
• Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and high availability.
• Knowledge and experience about the differences between onprem and the cloud and how to help applications teams that don’t understand those differences.
• Highly skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, identifying anomalous system behavior, and determining the root cause of incidents.
• You've demonstrated the ability to effectively work collaboratively across functions and communicate between many different teams.
• Interest in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Systematic problem-solving approach coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.