AWS Cloud Engineer

Position description

This is a hands-on, non-supervisory, individual contributor position. The incumbent will design, build, maintain and improve our AWS Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps delivery pipelines to support our critical applications. They will work with Software, Systems and SQA Engineers, as well as third party vendors to deliver high quality systems in a high-performance hybrid cloud environment. They will automate repetitive tasks, work to get configuration into code, and reduce manual deployment tasks to maximize system quality and minimize time to market to support the mission.

Basic qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, relevant field, or equivalent work experience.

• Minimum of five (5) years of hands-on experience building AWS infrastructure and DevOps pipelines.

• Expertise in AWS foundational services, plus: ECS/Fargate, RDS, RedShift, Glue, ElastiCache, CodeCommit, Batch, Lamda, Route 53, ALBs.

• Expertise in CI/CD and Agile tool sets including Jira, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins.

• Strong Linux administration and networking skills.

• Expertise with web application stack including Apache, Tomcat, PHP, RDS (MySQL, Aurora), APIs.

• Strong containerization skills using Docker.

• Demonstrated expertise in maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform.

• Experience with programming/scripting languages, including but not limited to: Terraform, Javascript, Python, PHP, Java, HTML, CSS., JSON

• Advanced knowledge of cloud computing and integration methods.

• Ability to lead, implement, and design large scale complex technology solutions.

• Ability to learn new technologies and cross-train and/or be cross-trained as part of IT support team.

• Ability to interact successfully with all levels of the organization.

• Ability to lead and manage shifting priorities and to meet deadlines.

• Must have good research and analytical skills.

• Must have good organizational and communication skills.

Summary of duties

Design, build, and maintain secure and cost-effective cloud infrastructure on AWS ensuring high availability and scalability.

• Design, architect, and lead the integration and installation of new technologies with regards to AWS and AWS integrations.

• Design, build and optimize DevOps pipelines including multiple quality gates and quick feedback loops.

• Collaborate with application development teams to transform traditional web applications into container-based environments using Docker and AWS Elastic Container Service/Fargate.

• Lead the coordination of vendors, suppliers and professional services during project engagements and research & development queries.

• Act as a Technical Lead on a variety of projects, delivering high quality, in an agile environment.

• Develop KPIs, establishing quantitative and qualitative metrics to track pipeline performance.

• Keep abreast with the rapid changes in technology and recommend suitable technology improvements that are fit for the business and the IT enterprise.

• Monitor mission critical applications and troubleshoot any production issues, which will require availability after normal business hours as needed and report on system availability.

• Provide complete and accurate documentation as required by Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and policies.

• Analyze infrastructure costs, recommend, and implement optimization measures.