AppOps Senior Specialist AWS

Title
:
App Ops Senior Specialist - with AWS

Location
:
Onsite downtown Toronto - 3 days a week

Duration
: 6-8 month contract

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Experience in App Ops with highly resilient and highly performant production workloads with AWS
• Expertise in using version control systems, such as Git, for managing codebases and collaboration.
• Expertise with scripting e.g. Power Shell, Python, and Ansible.
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with microservices and containerization (i.e., Docker).
• Experience using tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Service Now.
• Good understanding of AWS ECS core architectural concepts: clusters, task definitions, tasks, services, autoscaling (service and cluster auto scaling), and networking integration (such as with Elastic Load Balancing and AWS VPC).
• Strong knowledge of Agile development and Agile frameworks (e.g. JIRA, Git Hub)
• Good understanding of software lifecycle including release planning, release processes, software testing, incident, problem and change management.
• Well versed in analyzing data, identifying and proactively mitigating risk to production systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and can seamlessly communicate with internal and external stakeholders.

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Certification
• Experience with Open Shift Kubernetes
• Experience with Dev Ops concepts
• Good understanding of database systems such as Oracle, PostgreSQL
• AWS certifications
• Experience working with Open Shift
• Experience working in the Financial and Payments services.
• ITIL Certification