Job type: Contract to hire
Location: Hybrid in Maryland
Our client is seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer oversee and manage to expand the AWS environment to meet the needs of our technology-forward company. The AWS Sr DevOps Engineer is a critical team member with the opportunity to accelerate the existing momentum on AWS.
Responsibilities:
- Support the strategic direction and the design of technology, infrastructure, software, and communications and networking systems.
- Deploy and operate within AWS environments.
- Work alongside systems and development teams to support the transition and operation of applications in and out of AWS.
- Identify and apply AWS operational best practices.
- Estimate AWS costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms.
- Create automation to streamline provisioning and de-provisioning processes.
- Configure of the AWS cloud management; Configure and fine-tune the cloud infrastructure systems; monitoring and managing cloud services carefully.
- Integrate and work with third-party hardware, software, and service vendor relationships.
- Promote cybersecurity awareness, assist in training, testing, and the use of best practices.
- Provide after-hours, weekend, and on-call support as-needed outside of general working hours.
Requirements:
- 5 years of Systems Administration with a strong background in DevOps practices, such as infrastructure as code (IaC).
- 5 years of experience working with AWS environments.
- 4years of system administration for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux/CentOS)
- Experience deploying and maintaining AWS multi-account infrastructure (AWS Config, AWS CloudFormation StackSets, Terraform, Control Tower)
- Expertise managing security within an AWS master payer account environment and for Linux systems.
- Expertise troubleshooting and writing Bash scripts or Python.
- Experience with Database administration (SQL, MariaDB/MySQL, Amazon RDS, Aurora ) is a big plus.
- Expertise with automating CI/CD pipelines using native AWS services such as CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy. Experience with Jenkins or Ansible is also considered.
- Experience with Git,Github,GitLab, including experience with CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and issue tracking.
- Must be able to adjust quickly to changing priorities and conditions.
- Proven ability to meet deadlines while thoroughly completing projects and assignments.
- Experience with formal Change Management processes to ensure proper documentation, approvals, and communication associated with AWS infrastructure changes.
- Preferred Certifications or equivalent work experience: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Developer, Certified SysOps Administrator, Certified Solutions Architect