Lead AWS cloud engineer

Alliance IT
Durham, NC Other
POSTED ON 4/17/2023 CLOSED ON 5/31/2023

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Job Description

Responsibilities:

  1. Strong programming skills
  2. Understanding SQL and implementation in application code
  3. Hands on experience in the following AWS resources to create IAC codebase in Terraform.
    • EC2 Instances and Auto Scaling Groups
    • IAM Roles and Policies
    • S3 Buckets and Bucket Policies
    • AWS KMS and Secrets Manager
    • AWS Transfer Server
    • Lambda Functions
    • API Gateway
    • OpenSearch
    • ELBs (focus on NLB)
    • Security Groups and NACLs
  1. Experience in AWS IAM security, create users, roles, policies, and inter-account trusts.
  1. Experience in AWS Roles Strategies. Direct user access, User Assumed Role and Assumed Role.
  2. Experience in S3 Bucket, create a policy, Triggers, Trust Relationship between accounts.
  3. Work with the developer team to help solve code issue, problems and troubleshoot.
  4. Work with Solution Designers and create documents.
  5. Experience in EC2 instance, automatic deployment with Terraform.
  6. Experience in monitoring solution (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config Manager, Security Hub).
  7. Experience in GitHub, branching strategy.
  8. Automate environment provisioning leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  9. Work with Dev/Data teams to document and streamline as much of their workflow as possible, including agile branching and release strategies. Orchestrate end-to-end coordinated deployments of both app code and data!
  10. Create reusable, extensible, secure COE artifacts (e.g., CICD yaml templates, ARM Templates, Blueprints) to enable wide-spread adoption by developers of best practices and compliance across an organization.
  11. Coach dev/data teams on how to use the above COE templates, self-service automation, and branch/release strategies as it applies in an Agile SDLC
  12. Experience in configuring & monitoring different attributes and handling scale-up and scale-down scenarios for the application in Cloud
  13. Have experience building and deploying as containers on a cloud platform using an automated CI / CD pipeline.
  14. Application monitoring through operations insights, application insights
  15. Provide best practices around provisioning production and non-production environments on cloud to optimize the usage
  16. Have a good understanding in the implementation of advanced security, authentication, and single sign-on across cloud and on-premise

 Required Skills:

  1. At least 6 years of experience with DevOps automation & Infrastructure as code and Configuration Management (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, etc)
  2. Experience working in agile/scrum environment.
  3. Self-driven and should be able to create work in less guided environment.
  4. Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to converse and collaborate with globally distributed software teams.
  5. Active listening and excellent presentation and writing capabilities.
  6. Critical thinking, decision-making, time/stress management and organizational skills
  7. Influence a culture of service ownership at organization. Engage in training and mentoring to help develop other engineers with this mindset.
  8. Proficient in Git framework and branching strategies.
  9. Strong communication, analysis and problem-solving skills
  10. Adaptable to changing architecture and new technologies.
  11. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer and/or other AWS certifications

Salary : $60 - $80

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