Senior AWS Devops Engineer

RxCloud; Oregon (WI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A cloud services company is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to manage cloud infrastructure and improve service performance. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with AWS Cloud services, Linux systems, and automation tools. Responsibilities include troubleshooting production issues, ensuring high availability, and performance engineering for backend services. This remote position is perfect for someone who thrives in a lean team environment.

Responsibilities

• Understand, automate and scale Help shift cloud infrastructure.
• Own Help shift production services and ensure complete monitoring coverage.
• Architect and implement projects that reduce or eliminate repetitive tasks.
• Ensure all services and infrastructure are highly available.
• Performance engineering for backend services and stores.
• Work in a lean team with a focus on getting things done.

Skills

Experience diagnosing and resolving problems in mission-critical environments

Experience with AWS Cloud services and its APIs

Comprehensive understanding of networking concepts

Build/Release/Deployment Management - CI/CD principals

Installation and basic management on MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle

CloudWatch Log Management

Linux Administration

Experience working on a remote team

Experience with automation tools (Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Chef)

Experience with AWS CI/CD Tools

Experience building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters

At least 6 years of enterprise cloud experience

At least 5 years of experience with Linux systems

Job description

About the job Senior AWS Devops Engineer

Required skills:

• Experience diagnosing and resolving problems in mission-critical environments.
• Experience with AWS Cloud services and its APIs.
• Comprehensive understanding of networking concepts (layers, firewalls, DNS, VPN, etc) and how to build secure infrastructure and an awareness of common server security vulnerabilities.
• Build/Release/Deployment Management - CI/CD principals, custom deploy script.
• Installation and basic management on MySql, MongoDB, Oracle on RDS as well as standalone.
• CloudWatch Log Management, Archival, syslog configuration.
• Linux Administration - User, Group, corn, iptables, audit, health monitoring, system services, OS upgradation, SSH/SFTP access control, TCP/IP troubleshooting, shell scripts.
• Experience working on a remote team.
• Experience with the advanced features of AWS.
• Experience with AWS PCI/DSS Compliance requirements and implementation is a big plus.
• Experience in automation tools (Ansible, Salt, Puppet or Chef).
• Experience with AWS CI/CD Tools like CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline is a plus.
• Experience building and maintain Kubernetes clusters on-prem or using managed services like EKS / GKE
• At least 6 years of enterprise cloud experience preferably with AWS
• At least 5 years of experience with Linux systems

Roles and Responsibilities

• Understand, automate and scale Help shift cloud infrastructure. This will involve learning and working with various cloud technologies, scripting languages, and CM tools.
• Own Help shift production services and ensure complete monitoring coverage, troubleshoot, and fix production issues.
• Architect and implement projects that reduce or eliminate repetitive and administrative tasks.
• Ensure all services and infrastructure are Highly Available, with Disaster Recovery in place.
• Performance engineering for backend services and stores such as MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kafka, HAP Roxy, Redis etc
• Work in a lean team, with a focus on getting things done.