Job Title: AWS Engineer

Client: Government client

Duration: Long term

Duties:

• Responsible for designing, building, and supporting a secure cloud platform and Linux based instances based on industry standards, best practices and guidelines.
• Determine technical standards and specifications and lead the design, build and support of shared services cloud platform components.
• Providing professional support services and/or the integration of their respective products.
• Implement the products based on best Practices.
• Review the current architectural landscape and make appropriate recommendations.
• Must be able to compare various solutions and determine the one which best fits the need.
• Designs, develops, and maintains Linux based instances and backend applications.
• Deploy and maintain web application technologies and middleware solutions on Linux platform.
• Research new technologies and products for their applicability to business processes.
• Provides tier 1 and tier 2 support for the platform.

Education:

• A bachelor s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline.

Experience:

This position requires a minimum of eight (8) years of experience in System administration and development experience.

• At least four (4) years of experience working with design and implementation of systems and applications at Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Sets up administrator and service accounts and troubleshoot creates/updates and Maintains system documentation, interacts with users, and evaluates vendor products, deep understanding of monitoring AWS instances and services.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform capabilities and best practices architectures, and engineering solutions within multiple Cloud accounts and services
• experience working in AWS via the CLI and management console. Knowledge and experience architecting and configuring Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)
• Experience working with administrator and service accounts and troubleshoot Creates/updates and Maintains system documentation, interacts with users and evaluates vendor products.
• Strong knowledge of software evaluation principles and practices.
• Development and implementation of vulnerability remediation strategies. Configuration and execution of vulnerability and web application scans.
• Experience with automating server configuration for security including logging, key changes, and system hardening.
• Experience writing process requirements, technical design documents, and standard operating procedures.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams with diverse backgrounds.
• Demonstrating good interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Understanding of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well Architected Framework
• 3 years of experience with Ansible, Ansible Tower experience is preferred.
• 3 years of experience implement Linux/Unix Security and privileges access.
• Proven technical knowledge of network, internet systems, databases and operating systems including Linux, Microsoft in AWS.
• Working knowledge of programming languages, including Perl, Python, and shell scripting.
• Proven experience in overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software systems and related products.
• Proven experience with systems planning, security principles, and general system management best practices.