AWS DevOps Engineer ( Terraform / IaC)

IT Associates; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

IT Associates in Downers Grove, IL / Princeton, NJ / Quincy, MA is seeking an experienced AWS and automation engineer to support enterprise clients. You will work on hybrid projects, implementing scalable AWS services, infrastructure as code, and automation enhancements.

The role requires strong Linux/Windows knowledge, scripting skills, and a commitment to excellent client service. You will collaborate with architects, engineering teams, and on-call staff to deliver reliable solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in supporting mission-critical environments.
• 3+ years engineering, architecting, or supporting AWS solutions.
• Excellent OS knowledge with Linux or Windows.
• Current AWS Associate/Professional certifications.
• Experience with automation and configuration management tools.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage large client projects on AWS environments.
• Collaborate with product engineering and pre-sales architects.
• Install and manage OS and AWS services.
• Build scalable, auto-scaled environments with automation.
• Maintain high availability and troubleshoot complex issues.
• Lead and mentor team members in absence of the manager.
• Participate in on-call rotation for 24x7 support.

Skills

Client service mindset

Team leadership

Self-motivated

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor's in Computing or related field

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Powershell

Jenkins

Git

Docker/Kubernetes

Harness

Job description

• Hybrid work 1-2 days in the office - Downers Grove,IL or Princeton (NJ) OR Quincy (MA)
• Need locals to these areas
• 2 Openings!
• Harness - is a must.

You will be working on a variety of projects and environments for household names using the latest technology including AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Powershell, Datadog, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira, Containers etc. Learning, collaborating, training and certification are strongly encouraged, and opportunities to do so will be provided.

The successful candidate will be someone who can demonstrate a genuine desire and passion for AWS, client service and automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Working on large or complex client deploy projects
• Working closely with product engineering projects to further develop our service
• Working closely with Pre-sales Architects
• Installation, configuration, and ongoing management of O/S and AWS services.
• Implementing and maintaining custom client machine images and centralized configuration management to enable quick repeatable builds and auto-scaling.
• Maintaining high availability through proactive measures.
• Troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues.
• Ensuring clients & partners are updated on current status of work and issues.
• Raise, investigate and resolve problems and known errors in line with the problem management process.
• Ability and willingness to proactively improve ways of working, automation and processes via our continual improvement Kanban board.
• Partake in an on-call rotation to provide 24x7 4th line support for AWS clients.
• Proactively keep up to date on AWS services and developments.
• Buddy new members of the team and train other teams
• Act as team leader and technical escalation point in Manager’s absence

Skills and Experience

• 8+ years’ experience in supporting highly customer-focused mission critical environments (e.g. high profile websites or enterprise infrastructure) essential.
• 3+ years’ experience of engineering, architecting, or supporting AWS solutions.
• Excellent O/S knowledge and experience in Linux or Windows with basic knowledge of the other. MCSE/RHCE or equivalent level of knowledge preferred.
• Experience of implementing and supporting AWS based instances and services (e.g. EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route53, Cloudfront, Elasticache, WAF etc.).
• Hold a number of current AWS Associate and Professional level Certifications
• Hold at least one AWS Certified Speciality certification (e.g. Security or Networking )
• Experience of building and maintaining scalable and auto-scaled environments using automation and configuration management tools (e.g. Cloudformation/Terraform and Ansible) beneficial or can be gained.
• Scripting ability in one or more of Python, Powershell, Bash, Perl
• Experience of using Git for version control useful
• Experience of working with or supporting containerized environments (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes/Docker)
• Experience with Harness.
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP.
• A degree in a computing-related discipline preferred or equivalent ability and knowledge.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working in an ITIL environment beneficial.
• Desire to continually grow, develop and improve.
• Must be self-motivated, a self-starter and possess a good working attitude
• Client focused and results driven
• Able to implement supportable solutions and make the complex simple.
• Able to perform as a role model within the team.