AWS Cloud Architect Location: Remote work ( preferred locals to DC Metro Area)

Hi ,

I am conducting a search for a Role: AWS Cloud Engineer and your background seems to align well to the responsibilities of the contract role. I am hoping we can arrange a quick call to discuss

Role: AWS Cloud Engineer

Location: Remote work

Duration: Long Term

Looking for only US citizens

The Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer is responsible for driving innovation & automation that adheres to cloud architectural best practices within the AWS cloud platform. This includes O&M and designing & implementing new cloud platform solutions that accelerate cloud migrations from on-prem to AWS, reduce costs, and improve overall security and resiliency of systems & workloads in AWS. This is a 100% Remote role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in provisioning and maintaining AWS cloud services.
• Collaborate with other Engineers, Developers, DBAs, and System Administrators when designing new or improving existing cloud solutions.
• Implement industry cloud best practices for security, performance, cost, & resiliency in all aspects of design & implementation.
• Administer, architect, support, enhance and monitor AWS services including analytics, infrastructure, networking, connectivity, user access management, security, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
• Administer, architect, manage and maintain IAM, user access, user groups and permissions for users including assigning roles and permissions, support third-party IAM integrations and other security tools as needed across all environments.
• Provide network infrastructure administration, design and architect level support for connectivity, configuration, performance, security, and reliability.
• Perform administration and management of VPCs, NACLs, NSGs, and DNS services.
• Orchestrate, provision, monitor, audit and manage EC2 instances and other AWS services for optimal performance, availability, and resource utilization including backup and restores.
• Troubleshoot OS issues, EC2 patch management, application software patching, and address vulnerabilities.
• Provide support for FedRAMP/ATO accreditation including logging, monitoring, and supporting documentations.
• Optimize the existing cloud migration process by introducing more automation Eg: IAC into existing workflows with the end goal of speeding up on-premises to cloud migrations.
• Configure, support, and manage various AWS Services such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB
• Experience architecting, designing, and deploying AWS solution using container orchestration and management services such as EKS, ECR.
• Promote continual improvement through automation of existing cloud tools DevSecOps CI / CD pipelines.
• Improve upon existing cloud monitoring tools & alerting for cloud-hosted systems to ensure cloud systems' availability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency are optimal.
• Automate deployment pipelines in a scalable, secure, and reliable manner using IaC and immutable infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot issues with application deployments.
• Create and maintain knowledge articles, SOPs, and required configuration management artifacts such as build and release artifacts.

Required Experience:

• Must have experience migrating on-prem applications and systems to AWS
• Knowledge of AWS ecosystems at scale
• Hands-on experience using both the AWS Management Console and the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Experience administrating, architecting, designing, building, and maintaining AWS cloud-native services as well as third party COTS/GOTS tools and technologies
• Hands-on experience and proficiency in using AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Config, Ansible for automation, infrastructure as a Code (IaC) and configuration management, VPC management, NACLs, NSGs, and DNS including writing and maintaining playbooks , and roles.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, Selenium, and others
• Hands-on experience with setting up, developing, configuring and maintaining DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on scripting experience with PowerShell, Python, BASH, SQL NoSQL etc.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 to 7 years of experience as an AWS Cloud Engineer or similar role
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems engineering, or related technical discipline (4 years of additional relevant experience may substitute for education)
• Two (2) years of experience and proven success in AWS design, development, architecture, support, management, and operations within a large-scale organization.
• Hands-on experience Architecting, designing, building, and deploying with Linux, UNIX, Windows, container and server-less technologies.
• Hands-on experience with use of industry standard system architecture, AWS Well-architected framework, AWS Shared responsibility models, and system management concepts and tools.
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust

Nice to Have:

• Delivering solutions using Agile methodologies
• AWS associate level or higher certifications
• Excellent writing skills
• Excellent oral communication and presentation skills

Thanks

Vamshi Krishna

Recruitment & Delivery Head

Blue Ribbon Global Technologies, LLC
Direct: (+1) 516-265-1599

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/vamshi-krishna-09954a40/

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