Remote Cloud Devops Engineer (AWS/Azure)

Job Description:

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Core Role Responsibilities:

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Deploying, automating, maintaining, and managing cloud-based production, pre-production and dev environments, to ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of environments.

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Build, release, and configuration management of the above environments.

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Pre-production Acceptance Testing to help assure the quality of our products / services.

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Ensuring 24/7 system uptimes.

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Ensuring smooth 24/7 CI/CD and DevOps.

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Design, implement, and execute Backup and Recovery and Business Continuity processes.

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Design, implement, and execute security standards.

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System troubleshooting and problem solving across platform and application domains.

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Suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements.

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Evaluate new technology options and vendor products.

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Ensuring critical system security using best-in-class cloud security solutions.

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Monitor maintenance and outages, assess impact, and develop strategies to minimize impact.

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Create and follow up on AWS / Azure support tickets.

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Required Skills and Experience:

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At least 3+ years' experience with using a broad range of cloud technologies (e.g. EC2, ECR, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, ELB, EFS, EBD, S3, VPC, SNS, SQS, SES, CloudWatch, Route 53) to develop and maintain a range of Amazon AWS based and/or Microsoft Azure based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.

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Core experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime Amazon AWS / Microsoft Azure environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.

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Monitoring Tools: Experience with machine-generated big data searching, monitoring and analysis using tools such as Splunk.

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Strong experience in the CI/CD pipeline using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, SonarQube, Maven, TwistLock etc. Special emphasis on integrating the tools to form the pipeline.

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Linux and Windows system administration.

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Understanding network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).

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Problem Solving: Ability to analyze and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues.

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Strong scripting (e.g., CDK, CloudFormation, TerraForm etc.) and automation skills.

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Certification:

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AWS or Azure technical certification.

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Desired Skills (Not essential but beneficial to have):

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OO Programming Skills: Strong OO Programming skills (Java or C#).

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DB Skills: Basic DB administration experience (Oracle, SQL Server). Experience with NoSQL DBs

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Agile Methodologies: Experience with Agile project management methodologies.