AWS Engineer

Position: AWS Engineer

Location: Hamilton, NJ

Duration: 12+ months

Rate: Open

Interview: In Person

Job responsibilities:

Onsite interview required

Hybrid 3 days in and 2 days remote (37.5 hours per week)

This is a development position for an AWS Engineer.

This position is a long term role that is expected to extend well beyond the dates listed in this requisition.

All candidates are to work onsite 3 days per week and interviews process for this role will be in-person ONLY and intensive and have heavy technical interviews in all required skill areas.

Please do not submit junior candidates or ones that may not pass the screening.

Responsibilities

• Background and experience providing DevOps support to Cloud deployed Applications

• Strong experience in production support, for the applications in production or to be deployed into production

• A deep understanding and familiarity with: Linux, and Web/Application servers - Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, etc.

• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production system

• Monitoring and logging systems –Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, ElasticSearch

• Networking knowledge - Firewalls, VPNs, proxies & Load balancers

• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems.

• Experience with Python, shell or other scripting language

• Manages and maintains the hardware, software, security, and connectivity to the Internet as well as middleware components

• Good understanding on User management, both for Windows and Linux machines. Integration with AD group on-prem, SSO would be good to have

• Software Development Fundamentals, Problem Solving, Documentation Skills, Verbal Communication, Application Maintenance, Application and System Security.

Promotes Team Building and Process Improvement, System Administration.

• Troubleshoots and resolves system service failures by identifying and analyzing the situation and provides corrective actions.

• Monitors systems activities and fine tunes system parameters and configuration to optimize performance and ensure security of systems.

• Monitor daily systems, evaluate the availability of all server resources and carry out all Linux server tasks

• Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions.

• Fault finding, analysis and of logging information for reporting of performance exceptions

• Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning

• Integrate automated testing frameworks into the CI/CD pipelines to ensure code quality and reliability.

• Implement blue-green deployments, canary releases, and other deployment strategies to minimize downtime and risk

• Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, hot fixes on servers, workstations, and network hardware

• Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks

• Thorough understanding of protocols such as DNS, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP, and SNMP

• Create and maintain documentation related to system configurations and procedures

• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS platform.