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IT Associates · 13 hours ago

AWS Cloud Engineer ( DevOps/Automation/Terraform/ Infrastructure deployment) )

United States

Contract

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$60/hr - $70/hr

8+ years exp

IT Associates is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer/DevOps to join their friendly team working on cutting-edge AWS technologies. The role involves leading complex client deployment projects, providing AWS expertise, and ensuring high availability of client solutions in AWS environments.

Communications InfrastructureConsultingInformation Technology

Growth Opportunities

Hiring Manager

Meena Aftab

Responsibilities

Act as the lead engineer on large or complex client deploy projects

Act as the lead engineer on product engineering projects to further develop our service

Provide AWS subject matter expertise advice and assistance to pre-sales architects

Expert in Salt Config management tool

Expert in infrastructure deployment via Terraform

Installation, configuration, and ongoing management of O/S and AWS services

Implementing and maintaining custom client machine images and centralized configuration management to enable quick repeatable builds and auto-scaling

Maintaining high availability through proactive measures

Troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues

Ensuring clients & partners are updated on status of work and issues

Raise, investigate, and resolve problems and known errors in line with the problem management process

Ability and willingness to proactively improve ways of working, automation, and processes via our continual improvement Kanban board

Partake in an oncall rotation to provide 24x7 4th line support for Ensono’s AWS clients

Proactively keep up to date on AWS services and developments

Buddy new members of the team and train other teams

Act as team leader and technical escalation point in Manager’s absence

Qualification

AWSTerraformSaltInfrastructure deploymentLinuxAWS CertificationsScriptingGitContainersCommunication skillsClient focusedSelf-motivated

Required

8+ years' experience in supporting highly customer-focused mission critical environments (e.g. high profile websites or enterprise infrastructure) essential

3+ years' experience of engineering, architecting, or supporting AWS solutions

Excellent O/S knowledge and experience in Linux with basic knowledge of the other OS

Experience of implementing and supporting AWS Infrastructure via Terraform & Salt

Experience of implementing and supporting AWS based instances and services (e.g. EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route53, Cloudfront, Elasticache, WAF etc.)

Hold a number of current AWS Associate and Professional level Certifications

Hold at least one AWS Certified Speciality certification (e.g. Security or Networking)

Experience of building and maintaining scalable and auto-scaled environments using automation and configuration management tools (e.g. Cloudformation/Terraform and Ansible) beneficial or can be gained

Scripting ability in one or more of Python, Powershell, Bash, Perl

Experience of using Git for version control useful

Experience of working with or supporting containerized environments (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes/Docker)

Experience of Jenkins or other CI/CD pipeline technology useful or can be gained

Good knowledge of TCP/IP

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Must be self-motivated, a self-starter and possess a good working attitude

Client focused and results drive

Able to perform as a role model within the team