Cloud Ops Engineer

Nomura Holdings, inc.•Philadelphia, PA

1d•$110,000 - $135,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Instinet Cloud Operations team manages the daily operations for Instinet’s cloud portfolio, primarily based on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. As a Cloud Ops engineer, you will collaborate with Applications and Infrastructure teams to operate the cloud environment.

Requirements

Minimum 1 year of experience with operating applications within Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Current AWS Certified SysOps Administrator certification or a higher AWS Professional certification
Experience with Infrastructure As Code technologies such as CloudFormation(preferred) or Terraform
Experience with Shell scripting, Python and configuration files based on YAML and JSON
Experience with CI/CD technologies such as Gitlab, Jenkins or CodeCommit/Build/Deploy
Experience utilizing service desk tools such as JIRA, Service Now, etc.
Minimum 3 years of Operations and/or NOC experience including monitoring, alert response, problem isolation and remediation.
Ability to utilize and perform administration via a command line interface in Linux or Unix
Knowledge and experience utilizing Git via command line
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator certification or a higher AWS Professional certification

Responsibilities

Configuration Management, application deployment, and intra-service orchestration experience using Ansible/Terraform/CloudFormation/Python
Engineering and implementation of established AWS cloud operations patterns to support up to 100 accounts via AWS Organizations
Development of automation and integrations within AWS, Gitlab and JIRA environments utilizing Python and Shell scripting
Real-time monitoring and alerting, proactive notifications, problem isolation and remediation
Cloud environment change management, coordination and provisioning/execution
Management and oversight of automation for BAU activities such as account creation, landing zone management, application inventory, trusted advisor recommendations, cost oversight, operational guard rails, etc.
Software Lifecycle Maintenance (development and bug fixes) of established automation frameworks such as Backup management, cost management, landing zone, etc.
Manage incoming service requests via JIRA Service Desk. Perform triage, scheduling and execution of incoming requests. Coordinate with internal teams to successfully resolve requests.
Monthly reporting of operations KPIs; apply continuous improvement methodology to support required KPIs