JOB FUNCTION: an AWS engineer is an IT professional who creates, maintains, and evolves an AWS cloud infrastructure for running applications.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Be responsible for the planning, implementation, and growth of the AWS cloud infrastructure
- Build, release, and manage the configuration of all production systems
- Manage a continuous integration and deployment methodology for server-based technologies
- Work alongside architecture and engineering teams to design and implement any scalable software services
- Ensure necessary system security by using best in class cloud security solutions
- Stay current with new technology options and vendor products, evaluating which ones would be a good fit for the company
- Implement continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines when necessary
- Recommend process and architecture improvements
- Troubleshoot the system and solve problems across all platform and application domains
- Oversee pre-production acceptance testing to ensure the high quality of a company's services and products
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent work experience
- 3+ Years of experience using AWS
- Experience designing and building web environments on AWS, which includes working with services like EC2, ELB, RDS, and S3
- Experience building and maintaining cloud-native applications
- A solid background in Linux/Unix and Windows server system administration
- Experience using DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Ansible, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, and Kubernetes.
- Experience installing and configuring different application servers such as IIS, JBoss, NGINX, Tomcat, and WebLogic
- Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, Dynatrace, ELK Stack, and Splunk
- An understanding of writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
- Knowledge of one or more of the most-used programming languages available for today's cloud computing (i.e., SQL data, XML data, R math, Clojure math, Haskell functional, Erlang functional, Python procedural, and Go procedural languages)
- Experience in troubleshooting distributed systems
- Proficiency in script development and scripting languages
- The ability to be a team player
- The ability and skill to train other people in procedural and technical topics
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- An understanding of automation
- Experience using ServiceNow
BONUS EXPERIENCE
- Success working on high-performance teams
- Delivered solutions in large scale enterprise environments
- Prior consulting or professional services experience
- Motivated to continually improve your craft, sharing and learning every day
- Exceptional integrity with the desire to create the best possible customer outcomes
- Understanding of the theory, concepts, and real-world application of Continuous Delivery (CD), which requires familiarity with tools like AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline