The Senior AWS Engineer coordinates with teams to analyze outages, deploy applications, optimize performance, and automate processes, while maintaining documentation.
This is a remote position.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and collaborate with multiple teams in investigating problems and provide root cause analysis during major and critical outages.
- Carry out deployments as part of Business Flexible Releases and Infrastructure Maintenance Releases to implement application/infra enhancements for Web/Cloud hosted applications.
- Drive and improve performance, scalability and availability of application resources.
- Implement organization's continuance delivery mechanism more effectively.
- Work with internal customers to understand requirements and implement configuration changes. Should be able to debug and understand logs.
- Prepare and maintain a clear documentation on organization’s infrastructure and architecture.
- Optimize scaling/performance of application resources.
- Automate the manual processes using suitable scripting language.
- Implement preventative and corrective measures.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field, plus 4-8 years of progressive professional experience.
- Minimum of three years hands-on experience with production AWS systems
- Experience in GitHub, Jenkins and CI/CD
- Hands on experience in EC2, Dockers and Container Services, AWS Lambda, Step Functions, AWS CLI, CloudFormation, Terraform, Route53, CloudFront.
- Experience in deployment and configuration management tools such as Chef or Puppet.
- Experience in supporting apache, tomcat, jetty or similar servers.
- Experience of working with APIs and Postman Tool.
- Ability to write and manage CloudFormation stacks.
- Effective use of Auto Scaling, Monitoring and logging.
- Knowledge of AWS security features and best practices.
- Experience in design of self-healing and fault-tolerant services.
- Knowledge of Techniques and strategies for maintaining high availability.
- Strong system administration experience (Linux/Unix or Windows).
- Experience in one or more scripting languages (Python, Shell, Perl, Ruby) and should understand web services.
- Experience in Multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking, Templates and other configurable items to enable automation.
- Understanding of monitoring techniques in a dynamic environment.
- Preferred: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate.
- Strong communication skills. Ability to communicate at all levels of the organization.
- Ability to comfortably work in a fast paced, dynamic and event driven environment.
- Availability for shift work.
- Approachable/Personable/Team Player.
Benefits
We do not unfairly discriminate on any ground, including race, caste, religion, color, ancestry, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or any other category protected by applicable law.
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