What are the responsibilities and job description for the AWS Platform Operations Engineer (SRE) position at Keasis?
Role: AWS Platform Operations Engineer (SRE)
Location: Quincy, MA
Type: Contract
Job description:
A key member of the AWS Cloud native team supports clients AWS cloud native Platform operations. We are looking for an AWS focused agile and devOps SRE engineer. The ideal candidate would be well versed with AWS foundational aspects along with service enablement, Infrastructure as Code/, operations as code via Terraform and harness
What you will be responsible for
As an AWS Platform Operations SRE engineer
- Proficient in AWS platform foundations and services.
- Proficient in terraform and Harness
- Incident, change and problem management. (ITSM)
- Devise solutions and methodologies to reduce MTTRs and increase uptime.
- Continuous Monitoring and observability refinements and enhancements.
- Design and maintain Patch management solution.
- Release management function to pre-prod and production environments.
- Participate in regular DR activities along with applications.
- Standardize and maintain metrics and reporting.
- Continuous vigilance for cost optimization opportunities.
- Show back / chargeback reporting.
- Maintain operations as code practices.
What we value
These skills will help you succeed in this role.
- Solid SRE Operations experience in AWS environment.
- Automation focused and engineering mind set.
- Mindset to reduce toil via operations as code and reduce manual intervention.
- Strong understanding of cloud native design patterns and DevOps principles (Infrastructure as Code)
- Openness and ability to learn new skills and technologies in a fast-paced environment.
- Self-motivated and passionate individual Team player; Ability to effectively communicate ideas and escalate issues across teams in a timely manner
Education & Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in any Engineering discipline
- 10 years of IT experience in a hands-on role with 3 – 5 years of experience designing and supporting AWS environments.
- Understanding of Agile and DevOPs
- Deep understanding of Microsoft Azure IAAS, PAAS and SAAS solutions along with cloud native design patterns and DevOps principles (Infrastructure as Code)
- Appropriate certifications are strongly preferred, demonstrating an understanding of core infrastructure concepts as well as data and/or DevOps principles.
- Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies with demonstrated hands-on experience in one or more of the following domains:
- Core IaaS: Compute, Storage, Networking, High Availability
- Azure PaaS Services : Azure Kubernetes Service, Event Hub etc.
- Data Platform and Bigdata: SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Data Factory / Data Bricks
- Strong programming and scripting background in languages such as shell scripts, python, Java etc.
- Experience in designing, coding and deploying Terraform templates / modules with Harness.
- Handling critical issues and timely remediations in high pressure situations.
- Ability to develop and document deliverables compliant with established company design control and regulatory statutes.
- Automated testing tools experience would be preferred.
- Service Now. Splunk, Grafana knowledge would be preferred.
- Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.
- Knowledge of OS (windows / Linux) would be preferred.
- Financial services or regulated industry experience a huge plus.