AWS Cloud Engineer

THE OVERALL PURPOSE OF POSITION:

• The purpose of this position is to assist Client’s IT Operations department accomplish the following objectives:

• Design, develop, document, test, and debug new configuration management (Terraform) infrastructure as code from scratch.

• Operationalize AWS and implement security mechanisms for AWS services.

SCOPE OF WORK

• The position’s SCOPE OF WORK include the following:

• Collaborate with internal teams to architect, engineer, configure and deploy AWS and other infrastructure technologies using approved organizational technologies.

• Work “hand in hand” with System Operations to develop self-service infrastructure provisioning, delivery pipelines, log, and monitoring services.

• Update system documentation as required.

• Collaborates with IT Operations Engineers in installing applications and servers including both physical and virtual types.

• Monitor, fix and improve infrastructure continuously.

• Operates monitoring, alerting, backups, antivirus, anti-spam, malware, etc. as well as offsite storage, and data mirroring.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

• Terraform

• General AWS Architecture

• AWS regional Disaster Recovery

• AWS S3

• AWS EC2

• AWS API Gateway

• Amazon Cloud Watch

• AWS Cloud Trail

• AWS Trusted Advisor

• AWS Command Line Interface

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Seven (7) to Ten (10) years of directly related experience.

• Three (3) to Five (5) years of operational and/or QUALIFICATION AND
  
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• Experience in systems administration and Engineering in a mature Enterprise environment.

• Extensive Terraform experience

• Extensive AWS Cloud infrastructure environments including ECS, EC2, API, S3, Lambda and others.

• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft and Linux server operating systems and networking.

• Extensive knowledge of back office systems administration such as antivirus, backups, anti-spam, network monitoring tools, and networking equipment.

• Sophisticated understanding of ports, protocols, and routing and switching in a firewalled, wide-area network.

• Experience with Public Cloud infrastructure management

• Bonus - Experience with Puppet

• Bonus - Experience with Open Shift

• Bonus - Experience with the Atlassian Suite of products

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree with a strong academic record.

• AWS Certification

LENGTH OF EXPERIENCE

• The minimum amount of total work-related experience required is five (5) years for the position. This means experience in a related area or time spent performing similar work that provides the background for the current position.