AWS DevOps Engineer ( Terrraform / IaC)

IT Associates; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 56,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Retirement plan

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

IT Associates in Downers Grove, IL or Princeton, NJ and Quincy, MA offers a hybrid role for experienced AWS-focused engineers. You’ll work on diverse client deployments, using Terraform, Ansible, and a suite of AWS services, with emphasis on automation and continuous improvement.

The job emphasizes learning, certification, and collaboration across teams, with on-call duties and a focus on delivering reliable, scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in supporting highly customer-focused mission critical environments.
• 3+ years of engineering, architecting, or supporting AWS solutions.
• Excellent OS knowledge with Linux or Windows, MCSE/RHCE or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to large or complex client deployment projects.
• Collaborate with product engineering to advance service development.
• Coordinate with Pre-sales Architects to scope and design solutions.
• Install, configure, and manage OS and AWS services.
• Create and maintain scalable, auto-scaling environments using CI/CD tooling.
• Maintain high availability and proactive problem resolution.
• Communicate status of work and issues to clients & partners.
• Participate in on-call rotation for 24x7 AWS support.
• Stay updated on AWS services and industry developments.
• Mentor new team members and act as escalation point as needed.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Powershell

Linux/Windows

Automation

Docker/Kubernetes

Git

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computing or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Harness

CloudFormation

Jira

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!

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.

The anticipated hourly rate range for this position is ($41-54/hr). Actual hourly rate will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, retirement and/or other benefits are available after a waiting period.