IT Engineer - Cloud Platform

1. Job Description:
2. Sr Platform Engineer - AWS
3. Location:
4. Offshore remote with occasional office visit (must be able to work in shift with at least 2-3 hours or more overlap with the US EST time zone work hours)

What you will be doing -

30%

- Manage and administer the AWS accounts for Nonprod and assist in prod environments

- Automate the resources creation of various AWS resources using Terraform, Ansible & Jenkins

- Manage the existing resources that were deployed by PCF

- Create various automation scripts to monitor the AWS resources and send the email / slack notifications on any spikes on the resource metrics

- Ensure that the AWS Accounts including all the resources are in-compliance as per the Maximus standards

- Configure and Monitor the Cloudtrail, Cloudwatch logs, VPC Logs, AWS config rules etc

- Monitor the AWS resources for cost-optimization and recommend the right sizing of the resources

- Implement IAM strategies to ensure least privilege access through IAM roles or service accounts

- Participate in design/architecture meetings to document design decisions and to cross check with requirements

20%

- Work on automating the resource creation and monitoring using Terraform, Ansible and Lambda

20%

- Support the existing infrastructure including performing the upgrades, security practices & monitoring the platform

15%

- Learn the supporting tools including EKS, Apigee & PCF

10%

- Support non-prod environments and assist in supporting Production environments and to be on call once every 7-10 weeks

5%

- Review and suggest cost optimization tasks on AWS infrastructure usage

What we are looking for -

- Bachelors Degree from an accredited college or university required, equivalent experience considered in lieu of degree

- Candidates will need to be Sr level (6-8+ years overall experience with at least 4-5 years of AWS experience)

- Ability to work during the EST time zone and support Offshore customer teams as required

- Extensive experience on provisioning and configuring various AWS Resources including Ec2, Load balancers, S3, KMS, route 53, Lambda, EKS etc

- Extensive experience on implementing the security best practices on the AWS including IAM, Cloudtrail, Cloudwatch, AWS config etc

- Good knowledge on one of the programming languages to write the Lambda service for automation (preferably Python)

- Strong knowledge on networking within AWS including VPC, subnets, Internet Gateway, transit gateway, peering, routing etc

- Strong knowledge on Terraform including workspaces, remote-state, Modules etc

- Strong knowledge on Linux Operating system including shell scripting

- Experience working on configuring the AWS Elasticsearch (ELK) and configuring the Logstash

- Good Understanding and experience with the container technologies (Kubernetes/Docker)

- Good understanding and experience provisioning and monitoring RDS

- Experience in monitoring tools such as Splunk, Nagios, Appdynamics, Dynatrace or related tools

- Strong understanding of AWS cost explorer and cost analysis tools

- Should understand Microservice Architecture & Spring Boot framework

- Should be aware or know DevOps from a solutioning standpoint

- Should be able to independently evaluate products/services that would be deployed/integrated on/with the Platform

- Should be willing to perform Production support work as On call Support

- Understand and practice Agile development methodology

- Willingness to do pair programming with other team members

- Excellent organizational, interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills

- Ability to work as a team member, as well as independently

- Must be organized and detail oriented