AWS Engineer

Rubix Recruiting•Fort Collins, CO

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for the design, development, implementation, operations, and support of highly available hybrid cloud environments. Provide stable infrastructure for applications and repeatable processes through automation of provisioning, deployment, and proactive monitoring activities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in computer or systems engineering related major or equivalent related work experience
5-10 years of IT infrastructure development experience
Strong AWS experience especially in the following services (VPC, EC2, IAM, CloudFormation, S3, Route53, Security)
Strong Linux experience
Strong networking experience
Strong networking and systems security background
Scripting experience especially in bash and python
Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes cluster deployments preferably within AWS
Experience deploying and managing DCOS cluster deployments preferably within AWS
Experience managing environments having deployments of Kafka, Storm, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, HTTPS services and applications
Strong background in Devops related practices such as CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and infrastructure as code
Experience with the following development and Devops related tools: Git, Jenkins, Bitbucket
Teamwork and communication skills

Nice To Haves

Payments Experience

Responsibilities

Evaluate existing architectures, identify gaps, and propose courses of action to improve stability, availability, manageability, and costs
Create architectural guidelines and standards
Design, develop, and implement hybrid cloud environments
Design, implement, and execute Backup and Recovery and Business Continuity processes
Design, implement, and execute security standards
Monitor environments for security vulnerabilities and take actions to remediate and/or mitigate risks
Perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis
Monitor applications and services within the environments, take actions to resolve issues and implement strategies to prevent future occurrences
Monitor AWS maintenance and outages, assess impact, and develop strategies to minimize impact
Create and follow up on AWS support tickets