AWS Cloud Engineer

The role of AWS DevOps Architect is a key position within our Professional Services Innovation Team.

This highly skilled individual will lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable infrastructure utilizing AWS services. A strong understanding of cloud architecture, CI/CD methodologies, and infrastructure as code is crucial for success in this role.

• Architecture and Design: The successful candidate will design highly available, resilient, and scalable AWS infrastructure solutions, ensuring adherence to best practices in performance, reliability, and security.
  • Infrastructure Management: This person will oversee the maintenance of applications and infrastructure, employing advanced techniques to optimize configurations and resource utilization.
    • Collaborative Leadership: Working closely with development and operations teams, the candidate will define infrastructure requirements, provide expert guidance on best practices, and drive organizational change and improvements.
      • Process Improvement: Spearheading continuous enhancements in the Change Management process ensures controlled and efficient deployment of changes.
        • CI/CD Development: The candidate will architect and manage robust CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, improving application deployment and release management processes.
          • Automation of Provisioning: Leading the automation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform ensures consistency and efficiency in deployments.
            • Monitoring, Logging, and Performance Tuning: Building and managing monitoring tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack implements robust logging and alerting systems to proactively identify and resolve issues, and regularly performs performance tuning and resource optimization.
              • Security Compliance: Conducting regular security audits and assessments of systems and the underlying infrastructure identifies vulnerabilities and enforces security best practices.
                • Deployment Management: Owning the deployment process creates detailed deployment artifacts, including Deployment/Installation plans, with the capability to plan for rollbacks.
                  • Knowledge Management: Documenting and maintaining up-to-date records of infrastructure configurations and changes shares processes, procedures, and best practices for knowledge sharing.
                    • Stakeholder Communication: Providing comprehensive status updates effectively communicates project progress and operational metrics to team members and stakeholders.
                      • Cross-Functional Collaboration and Troubleshooting: Collaborating with cross-functional teams enhances software development and deployment processes, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. Offering technical support and troubleshooting for AWS-related issues.
                        • Industry Trends: Staying informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in DevOps, SRE, and cloud environments applies knowledge to enhance team capabilities.
                        Qualifications
                        • Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience in AWS cloud computing.
                        • Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
                        • Certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Architect is preferred.
                        • AWS Expertise: In-depth knowledge of AWS services, including but not limited to EC2, S3, EKS, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFormation.
                        • Database Knowledge: Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases like PostgreSQL.
                        • CI/CD Mastery: Proven experience in architecting and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform.
                        • Source Code Management: Advanced understanding of GitHub workflows, including branching strategies, pull requests, and collaboration techniques.
                        • Infrastructure as Code: Extensive hands-on experience with Terraform and Helm for infrastructure provisioning and management.
                        • Containerization Knowledge: Demonstrated experience with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes)
                        • Networking Acumen: Solid understanding of networking concepts, including load balancing and security best practices in cloud environments.
                        • Monitoring Tools: Proficiency with monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, or the Loki Stack, capable of setting up comprehensive observability solutions.
                        • Advanced Problem-Solving Skills: Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting abilities, with a strong emphasis on proactive problem resolution.
                        • Communication Skills: Strong leadership and communication abilities, demonstrating effective collaboration with cross-functional teams and influence over stakeholders.