Senior AWS Engineer

This is a remote position.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and collaborate with multiple teams in investigating problems and provide root cause analysis during major and critical outages.
• Carry out deployments as part of Business Flexible Releases and Infrastructure Maintenance Releases to implement application/infra enhancements for Web/Cloud hosted applications.
• Drive and improve performance, scalability and availability of application resources.
• Implement organization's continuance delivery mechanism more effectively.
• Work with internal customers to understand requirements and implement configuration changes. Should be able to debug and understand logs.
• Prepare and maintain a clear documentation on organization’s infrastructure and architecture.
• Optimize scaling/performance of application resources.
• Automate the manual processes using suitable scripting language.
• Implement preventative and corrective measures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field, plus 4-8 years of progressive professional experience.
• Minimum of three years hands-on experience with production AWS systems
• Experience in GitHub, Jenkins and CI/CD
• Hands on experience in EC2, Dockers and Container Services, AWS Lambda, Step Functions, AWS CLI, CloudFormation, Terraform, Route53, CloudFront.
• Experience in deployment and configuration management tools such as Chef or Puppet.
• Experience in supporting apache, tomcat, jetty or similar servers.
• Experience of working with APIs and Postman Tool.
• Ability to write and manage CloudFormation stacks.
• Effective use of Auto Scaling, Monitoring and logging.
• Knowledge of AWS security features and best practices.
• Experience in design of self-healing and fault-tolerant services.
• Knowledge of Techniques and strategies for maintaining high availability.
• Strong system administration experience (Linux/Unix or Windows).
• Experience in one or more scripting languages (Python, Shell, Perl, Ruby) and should understand web services.
• Experience in Multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking, Templates and other configurable items to enable automation.
• Understanding of monitoring techniques in a dynamic environment.
• Preferred: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate.
• Strong communication skills. Ability to communicate at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to comfortably work in a fast paced, dynamic and event driven environment.
• Availability for shift work.
• Approachable/Personable/Team Player.

Benefits

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