DevOps Engineer - AWS

Software; Downers Grove (IL); Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ensono is seeking an experienced AWS-focused engineer to join a friendly team working on deployment, automation and support of mission-critical client solutions in AWS. The role emphasizes customer service, automation, and ongoing learning with many AWS services and tooling.

You will lead deployments, provide SME guidance to pre-sales, and help keep systems highly available and well-documented across Linux/Windows environments. Homebased in Downers Grove, IL with on-call responsibilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years supporting mission-critical client environments.
• 2+ years engineering, architecting, or supporting AWS solutions.
• Experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, EBS, IAM, RDS, Route53, CloudFront, ElastiCache, WAF).
• Current AWS Associate and/or Professional certifications.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineer on small to medium client AWS deployment projects.
• Provide AWS SME advice to pre-sales architects.
• Install, configure, and manage OS and AWS services.
• Build and maintain scalable, auto-scaled environments via automation tools.
• Maintain high availability and troubleshoot complex issues.
• Keep clients and partners updated on status and issues.
• Mentor new team members and contribute to process improvements.

Skills

AWS expertise

Automation

On-call support

Linux/Windows

CI/CD

Scripting

Education

Computing degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Powershell

Datadog

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Jira

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS

EKS

CloudFormation

Job description

Worker Type:
EmployeeThis is an exciting opportunity to join a friendly team working on some of the hottest AWS technologies. This team is primarily focused on the deployment, automation and support of mission-critical client solutions in AWS.

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

• Act as the lead engineer on small to medium client deploy projects
• Provide AWS subject matter expertise advice and assistance to pre-sales architects
• Installation, configuration, and ongoing management of O/S and AWS services.
• Implementing and maintaining custom client machine images and centralised 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 oncall rotation to provide 24x7 4th line support for Ensono's AWS clients.
• Proactively keep up to date on AWS services and developments.
• Buddy new members of the team

Skills and Experience

• 5+ years' experience in supporting highly customer-focused mission critical environments (e.g. high profile websites or enterprise infrastructure) essential.
• 2+ 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
• 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 of Jenkins or other CI/CD pipeline technology useful or can be gained.
• 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 independent, 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.

Primary Location City/State:

Homebased - Downers Grove, IL - Finley, Illinois

Additional Locations (if applicable):

Ensono is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Ensono provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex, marital status, pregnancy, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, military status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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