This job posting is a contract position for a senior Amazon AWS DevOPS engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience working in a large-scale Amazon AWS enterprise environment. The successful applicant MUST possess all of the required skills listed in this job posting and MUST have meaningful, practical, hands-on experience in all of the required skills areas. Experience migrating a large-scale enterprise to Amazon AWS in a DevOPS capacity is also strongly desired. The successful candidate will be required to take a hands-on performance assessment in AWS demonstrating required skills.
Required Skills • Amazon AWS
- CloudFormation template development and maintenance in YAML
- Creation and use of CloudFormation nested stacks
- Creation and use of IAM policies and roles
- Expertise in deploying applications using EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, RDS, SNS, CloudWatch and Lamba
- Practical understanding of AWS VPC design and networking
- Experienced in multi-account, multi-region deployments
- Solid understanding of the AWS well architected framework and ability to apply AWS best practices to application deployments
• Linux and Windows OS
- Solid AWS Linux and CentOS command line skills
- Ability to script in bash required
- Experience working with Windows Server 2012R2 from a DevOPS perspective
- Ability to script in Powershell nice to have
• DevOPS
- Significant experience and expertise in Chef and Chef cookbook development and maintenance
- Fluent in YAML and JSON
- Experience in the creation and maintenance of automated builds using Jenkins
- Solid understanding of CI/CD build processes using Maven, Gradle, Npm, etc.
- Experience in automated AMI builds using Packer and Chef
- Solid understanding of AWS, OS, and application security including the use of security groups, NACLs, SSL/TLS, IAM policies and roles, certificates and key management
- Ability to program in either Python or Ruby strongly desired
- Experience working in an Agile development environment
- Fluent in source code version control using Git / BitBucket
- User level experience working with Jira sprints and Kanban boards in a DevOPS environment
- Ability to document solutions in Confluence
• Enterprise application migration to AWS
- Experienced in the construction and migration of multi-tiered enterprise applications to AWS
- Experienced in migrating and refactoring enterprise Java based applications in AWS
- Understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases and ability to migrate to RDS or deploy as a stand alone EC2 instance(s)
Education and Certifications • At least one Amazon AWS certification desired • BSEE/BSCS desired but not required
Benefits • Opportunity to work alongside highly experienced highly certified Amazon AWS and Red Hat professional services professionals • Opportunity to advance career through meaningful AWS and DevOPS work in a large Fortune 500 company • Potential for some remote work for right person
Terms 6 month guaranteed contract w/ potential to extend
