AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer

Senior AWS Cloud Engineer / DevOps

• 6 months Contract to Hire
• HYBRID-One day a week in office in Princeton NJ ( client is open to chicago Or boston as well )
• Client has fantastic benefits on hire
• The focus is on AWS, Terraform, IaC, creating pipelines

Job Profile Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join a friendly team working on some of the hottest AWS technologies. This team is primarily focused on the deployment, automation and support of mission-critical client solutions in AWS.

You will be working on a variety of projects and environments for household names using the latest technology including AWS, Terraform, Salt, Powershell, Datadog, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira, Containers etc. Learning, collaborating, training and certification are strongly encouraged, and opportunities to do so will be provided.

The successful candidate will be someone who can demonstrate a genuine desire and passion for AWS, client service and automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the lead engineer on large or complex client deploy projects
• Act as the lead engineer on product engineering projects to further develop our service
• Provide AWS subject matter expertise advice and assistance to pre-sales architects.
• Expert in Salt Config management tool.
• Expert in infrastructure deployment via Terraform.
• Installation, configuration, and ongoing management of O/S and AWS services.
• Implementing and maintaining custom client machine images and centralized configuration management to enable quick repeatable builds and auto-scaling.
• Maintaining high availability through proactive measures.
• Troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues.
• Ensuring clients & partners are updated on status of work and issues.
• Raise, investigate, and resolve problems and known errors in line with the problem management process.
• Ability and willingness to proactively improve ways of working, automation, and processes via our continual improvement Kanban board.
• Partake in an oncall rotation to provide 24x7 4th line support for AWS clients.
• Proactively keep up to date on AWS services and developments.
• Buddy new members of the team and train other teams
• Act as team leader and technical escalation point in Manager’s absence

Skills and Experience

• 8+ years’ experience in supporting highly customer-focused mission critical environments (e.g. high profile websites or enterprise infrastructure) essential.
• 3+ years’ experience of engineering, architecting, or supporting AWS solutions.
• Excellent O/S knowledge and experience in Linux with basic knowledge of the other OS. RHCE or equivalent level of knowledge preferred.
• Experience of implementing and supporting AWS Infrastructure via Terraform & Salt.
• Experience of implementing and supporting AWS based instances and services (e.g. EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route53, Cloudfront, Elasticache, WAF etc.).
• Experience of building and maintaining scalable and auto-scaled environments using automation and configuration management tools (e.g Terraform and Ansible)
• Scripting ability in one or more of Python, PowerShell, Bash, Perl
• Experience of using Git for version control useful
• Experience of working with or supporting containerized environments (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes/Docker)
• Experience of Jenkins or other CI/CD pipeline technology useful or can be gained.
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP.
• A degree in a computing-related discipline preferred or equivalent ability and knowledge.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working in an ITIL environment beneficial.
• Client focused and results drive

CERTIFICATIONS

• Hold a number of current AWS Associate and Professional level Certifications
• Preferred at least one AWS Certified Specialty certification (e.g. Security or Networking )

The anticipated hourly rate range for this position is ($60-70/hr). Actual hourly rate will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, retirement and/or other benefits are available after a waiting period.