AWS Engineer

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 analysing 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.