AWS Cloud Operations Engineer

Intellect Solutions LLC; Vienna (VA); Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is looking for an AWS Operations Engineer to enhance their cloud operations. This role involves optimizing AWS environments, focusing on EKS and CI/CD, and automating tasks using tools like Ansible and Python. The ideal candidate will have a robust background in AWS services, Linux, and DevSecOps practices. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will directly impact the efficiency and security of mission-critical applications. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy tackling complex challenges, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS services, especially EKS, EC2, and Lambda.
• Proficient in scripting with Python and Ansible for automation.

Responsibilities

• Optimize AWS environments focusing on EKS and CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate repetitive tasks to enhance cloud processes and security.

Skills

AWS Services

Kubernetes

Ansible

Python

CI/CD

Linux

Troubleshooting

DevSecOps Tools

Tools

AWS CLI

Jenkins

GitLab

Terraform

HashiCorp Vault

Job description

Location: Remote/Vienna, VA
Clearance: Minimum Active Secret Clearance


Job Description:

• We are seeking an experienced AWS Operations Engineer to drive our AWS-based operations environment, focusing on EKS, CI/CD, and service automation. The ideal candidate will have robust experience in AWS native services, Kubernetes, and utilizing languages/tools such as Ansible or Python to automate tasks and ensure seamless, automated, and resilient operations in the cloud. Candidate will be expected to be a part of a systems operator team in AWS cloud environment addressing incident issues. Candidate will also be responsible for evaluating current operations tasks, ensuring their properly documented and optimized to lead in converting and automating for systems administrators to execute.

Responsibilities:

• Optimize the monitoring and overall management of the AWS environments, with a particular emphasis on EKS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, and API Gateway.
• Manage the troubleshooting and maintenance of current CI/CD pipelines and tools (Jenkins/GitLab) per request from other teams.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive tasks, using Ansible, Python, or a language of choice to improve and optimize cloud processes, ensuring the availability, security and scalability of mission applications
• Address identity management and certificate management tasks using RedHat IDM, AWS IAM, and AWS Certificate Manager, ensuring secure access and administration.
• Maintain the current secrets management solutions, primarily using Vault and AWS Secrets Manager.
• Act in a support role for developer teams leveraging the AWS CLI and SDKs for automation, application deployment, and application integrations.
• Identify and Propose updates to the cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Analyze existing processes, recommending, and leading the implementation of best practices to optimize their results.
• Troubleshoot issues in real-time, conducting root cause analyses for platform anomalies and leading postmortem examinations to implement resiliency actions and lessons learned behaviors.
• Collaborate with development teams, providing cloud infrastructure support and guidance to codify intake request processes and promote self-sufficiency where it makes sense.

Qualifications:

• Solid experience in Red Hat Enterprise Linux or other Linux distributions.
• Proficient in scripting using languages like Python, Perl, or any shell scripting language like BASH.
• In-depth experience building, troubleshooting, and maintaining AWS services, especially EKS, and other AWS native services like Lambda, EC2, RDS, and API Gateway.
• Proficient in using Ansible configuration management and automation.
• Experience with RedHat IDM for identity management and HashiCorp Vault for secrets management.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS CLI, SDKs, and other automation tools.
• Familiarity with standard DevSecOps tools such as Jenkins/GitLab, Git, Nexus, Sonarqube, Terraform, etc.

Personal Attributes:

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Self-driven and capable of working with minimal oversight.
• Team player, providing technical guidance while working with a team to achieve mission objectives and transparency of issues with assigned leadership.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure