IT Engineer - Cloud Platform

Sr Platform Engineer – AWS

Roles and Responsibilities

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-

• Bachelor's 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.