Cloud Operations Engineer, AWS for VC Backed Consumer Internet Compay

Roberts Recruiting; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A consumer Internet company located in Boston seeks an AWS-focused engineer to automate AWS infrastructure and manage cloud services across regions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with AWS, skills in automation with tools like Ansible and Python, and a certification as an AWS Administrator or similar role. The position involves designing resilient infrastructure, planning for disaster recovery, and collaborating on security-focused initiatives. Join a team committed to transforming the global economy with innovative payment technology.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing services in a large AWS cross-account environment.
• Expert with AWS services like IAM, VPC, and Cloudwatch.
• Configuration management with Ansible and Python.

Responsibilities

• Automate AWS infrastructure configuration using APIs.
• Design resilient cross-region infrastructure.
• Plan disaster recovery scenarios for microservices architecture.

Skills

AWS management

Automation

Monitoring

Security practices

Education

AWS certified SysOps Administrator, DevOps Engineer, or Solutions Architect

Tools

AWS

Ansible

Python

Docker

Job description

We are a consumer Internet company focused on transforming the world economy with secure, simple, and less costly technology for storing and using money. We are backed by $76 million from investors including Goldman Sachs, IDG China, Breyer Capital, Accel and General Catalyst. With offices in Boston, San Francisco, Dublin and London, we are building mobile apps aimed at enabling greater ease-of-use in online and in-person payments, with enhanced security and privacy, and the convenience of free, instant, global digital money transfers.

What you will do

• Automate configuration of AWS infrastructure using AWS apis in scripting languages such as Python
• Build out AWS managed services to meet growing worldwide custom base across multiple AWS regions
• Design redundant and resilient cross-region infrastructure
• Plan and test disaster recovery scenarios for a highly available microservices architecture
• Collaborate to create security focused tools and frameworks

About you

• AWS certified SysOps Administrator, DevOps Engineer or SolutionsArchitect
• Extensive experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), having managed services and applications in a large AWS cross-account environment leveraging IAM and federated SSO
• Expert with AWS services including IAM, Virtual Private Cloud, Config, Cloudwatch, etc.
• Passionate about alerting, monitoring and uptime
• Configuration management and automation experience with Ansible, Python, and Boto
• Sees problems as opportunities to automate!

Nice to have

• Experience with databases such as Postgres, DynamoDB and Redshift
• Security background and experience with DDOS mitigation and IDPS, whitehat, etc
• Experience managing Hardware Security Modules (CloudHSM, Safenet Luna SA, etc)
• Production experience with Docker
• Open-source project contributions