Systems Engineer - AWS (Senior)

THE OVERALL PURPOSE OF POSITION:  

• The purpose of this position is to provide System Engineer support to the IT department.  

SCOPE OF WORK  

• 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.  

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE:  

• General AWS Architecture  

• AWS Command Line Interface  

• Shell Scripting (Shell, Perl and Python)  

• Unix/Linux systems installation, operations, administration, and maintenance  

• Unix shell and standard utilities, and common Unix/ Linux security tools  

• Bachelor’s degree and/or relevant technical training with no preferred certification.  

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

• Three (3) to Five (5) years of operational and/or QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE:.  

• Extensive knowledge of Linux server operating systems.  

• Extensive knowledge of designing, developing and troubleshooting new and existing scripting.  

• Experience in systems administration and Engineering in a mature Enterprise environment.  

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

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

• Experience with Public Cloud infrastructure management  

• Bonus – Experience with RHEL Satellite server.  

• Bonus - Experience with Puppet  

• Bonus - Experience with the Atlassian Suite of products  

EDUCATION  

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science and/or Information Technology. relevant work experience (over eight years) may be acceptable.  

LICENSES, CERTIFICATES  

• AWS Certification   

LENGTH OF EXPERIENCE  

• The minimum amount of total “on-the-job” experience required is ten (10) 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.