AWS Cloud Platform Automation Engineer - Lead Hybrid

Resp & Qualifications

PURPOSE:

Defines, designs and develops system requirements. Performs trade-off analysis of performance, life-cycle cost, risk, producibility, and other system or program requirements. Assesses architecture and current hardware limitations, defines and designs system specifications, and evaluates input/output processes and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility. Coordinates design of subsystems and integration of total system. Defines system support requirements to include monitoring, capacity, staffing and patching/updating. Analyzes and resolves program support deficiencies. Conducts independent technical investigations in systems design.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Installs, tunes, upgrades, troubleshoots, and maintains all computer systems relevant to the supported applications including all necessary tasks to perform operating system administration, user account management, disaster recovery strategy and networking configuration.

• Develop and implement techniques to prevent system problems, troubleshoots incidents to recover services, and support the root cause analysis.

• Evaluates new systems by performing in-depth tests, including end-user reviews. Research software and related products to support recommendations and purchasing. Determines systems integration issues by evaluating components; developing and completing performance tests; analyzing test data; studying project requirements; analyzing user and potential user input; evaluating similar and related products and systems. Develop system automation and system integration of business processes.

• Improves engineering job knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.

• Acts as a mentor for junior and senior team members.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:

Leads a team utilizing a matrix management system.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education Level: Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science OR in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

Experience: 8 years proven success overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software systems and applications.

• Development: Experience programming with one or more languages: Python, Java, Groovy, Go, etc.

• IAC Tools for Platform Automation: Strong skills and experience in at least one: Ansible,and Terraform.

• Containers: Docker or other OCI-certified containers- is a Plus.

• Service Mesh: Istio, AWS App Mesh, OpenShift Service Mesh etc -is nice to have.

• Platform Monitoring, Observability, & Performance Tools: Nginx, New Relic, AppDynamics, Data Dog, Thanos, Jaeger, LogDNA, etc is a plus.

• DevOps Tools: Git/Repo, Crucible, Bitbucket, Jira, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, Circleci, Bamboo, Maven, Artifactory, Nexus etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 -10years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Automation and Administration.

• Previous Linux System administration is a Plus.

• Must have strong hands-on knowledge ofAWS platform and services but not limited to VPC, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambdas, Cloud Watch, CloudTrail, EKS etc.

• Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production level experience AWS Cloud.

• Hands on experience with Automation and Infrastructure Provisioning is a must Our goal is to only provision infrastructure with code.

• Must be well versed in writing Terraform plans, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.

• Current and actual Production level experience with Terraform and Ansible is Required.

• Other experience with different automation tools and languages instead of Python to code infrastructure for automation is acceptable.

• Must have hands on experience in writing Lambda functions preferably in Python (Boto3).

• Must be well versed in writing Linux Bash scripts.

• Experience with AWS CLI is desired.

• Minimum of One AWS certification is required.

• Hands-on experience with Containers, Amazon EKS, or RedHat OpenShift is a big plus.

• A great understanding of various DevOps toolchains, including Git/repo, Crucible, Jenkins etc.

• Solid understanding and experience with a CI/CD tool chain.

• 10+ years of overall experience in IT including hands-on Development and Systems engineering background.

• Minimum of 8-10 years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Automation and Administration.

• Must be well versed in writing Terraform plans, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.

• 3-5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering role.

• Experience with Datacenter migration and Enterprise Cloud transformation efforts.

• Experience with SRE principles and transformation.

• 3+ years of experience with implementation of Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or Google, etc. ), DevOps tool chain (Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc. ), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc. )

• Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python.

• Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Dev, Architects, Engineers).

Licenses/Certifications :

• AWS certifications, minimum of One is required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

• Communicates Architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, while highlighting short-term trade-offs vs. long-term commitments and costs.

• Engage in and improve the end-to-end Lifecycle of services, starting from Inception & design, deployment, operations, and refinement.

• Support activities, including System design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.

• Willingness to roll up the sleeves to investigate issues and engage Customers is required.

• Willingness and aptitude to learn New AWS services and other technologies as required.

• Systems Scalability and sustainability leveraging automation and strive to improve our systems with changes that improve reliability and velocity.

• Experience with Enterprise Cloud transformation efforts.

• Be part of our Cloud journey and as a member of our team help .