W2 - Senior AWS/Linux Systems Engineer

Job Title: Senior AWS/Linux Systems Engineer

Location: Washington, DC (Hybrid) (Locals are required for this role)

Position Type: Contract

Job Description:

Overview of role:

• 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

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

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

Responsibilities:

• Manage user profiles, including access to groups, password reset, and multi factor reset

• Manage and maintain standardized Organizational Units (OU) in AD

• Manage and maintain AD custom attributes and security groups

• General support, administration and maintenance of systems as directed Job Description

• Work closely with development teams to perform User and Group management and Password management requests

• Support creation and maintenance of Identify Access Management metrics as directed

• Support resolution of Identity & Access management issues reported in production system

• Support response to audit or assessment findings and ensuring standards compliance

• Write or update procedural documentation, as directed

• Support analysis of incidents and investigations

• Prepare and deliver reports to support system assessment and audit evidence,

• Respond to service requests within SLA

• Identify and support the IAM manager to enhance team processes for efficiency and quality improvement

• Write and maintain scripts to implement automation to minimize repetitive work, as directed.

Certifications:

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.

Education:

A bachelor’s degree in computer science and/or Information Technology.

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