IT Engineer - Cloud Platform

Sr Platform Engineer - AWS

Location:

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 spike s 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.