AWS/DevOps Engineer – Infrastructure

Job Title: AWS/DevOps Engineer – Infrastructure

Job ID: 2023-12242

Job Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ

Job Travel Location(s):

# Positions: 2

Employment Type: W2

Candidate Constraints:

Duration:Long Term

# of Layers:0

Work Eligibility:All Work Authorizations are Permitted

Key Technology:AWS, GIT, CI/CD, Ant, Maven

Job Responsibilities:

• Ability to build enterprise-grade systems in AWS including the provisioning and configuration of infrastructure.
• Partner with application teams to optimize deployment and configuration strategies.
• Provide hands-on support for existing environments to include performance of the following related tasks: software installation, patch installation, upgrades, query writing, configuration, security, system monitoring and tuning, disaster recovery planning, and release deployments.
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis for application issues to include triage, environment validation, application configuration, network/connectivity.
• Implement tools and automation for build, configuration management, continuous integration (CI), static and dynamic code analysis, deployment, and application monitoring.
• Work closely with Monitoring Engineering to ensure all relevant application and database KPI’s are implemented within the monitoring framework.
• Participate in all Production Support activities during incidents and outages. Hands-on technical resource capable of resolving all technical issues within lower and upper environments and making recommendations for performance and capacity improvements.
• Participate in capacity planning, tuning systems stability, provisioning, performance, and scaling of the application infrastructure.
• The desire to resolve issues for a 24X7 environment in a non-impacting yet fast-paced resolve time.

Skills and Experience Required:

Required:

• 5+ years’ experience with AWS services:
  • Networking: VPC / Subnets / Route Tables / VPG / Security Groups
  • Compute: EC2 / Autoscaling / Load Balancers
  • Database: RDS / Aurora / Dynamo
  • Kubernetes: EKS / ECR
  • Other: SQS / SNS / S3 / IAM / CloudFront / CloudWatch
• Ability to run and modify Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts in Terraform or CloudFormation
• Knowledge debugging containers running in a Kubernetes cluster.
• Linux system administration – ability to manage and troubleshoot Linux systems and services.
• AWS provisioning and caching.

Desired:

• Monitoring Applications: Splunk, Dynatrace
• Postgres experience
• Pulsar experience
• Bash or Python is nice to have
• Nginx: basic understanding of Nginx configurations and reverse proxies
• Networking: solid understanding of routing and networking concepts
• Agile development environment
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery – Jenkins deployments and pipelines
• Collaboration platforms such as JIRA, Confluence, Wiki, ServiceNow
• Containerization technologies such as Docker, Pivotal
• Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Salt, Chef, Puppet

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required; relevant, equivalent work experience may be substituted for degree requirement.