AWS Engineer

Job Function: an AWS engineer is an IT professional who creates, maintains, and evolves an AWS cloud infrastructure for running applications.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the planning, implementation, and growth of the AWS cloud infrastructure
• Build, release, and manage the configuration of all production systems
• Manage a continuous integration and deployment methodology for server-based technologies
• Work alongside architecture and engineering teams to design and implement any scalable software services
• Ensure necessary system security by using best in class cloud security solutions
• Stay current with new technology options and vendor products, evaluating which ones would be a good fit for the company
• Implement continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines when necessary
• Recommend process and architecture improvements
• Troubleshoot the system and solve problems across all platform and application domains
• Oversee pre-production acceptance testing to ensure the high quality of a company’s services and products

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience
• 3+ Years of experience using AWS
• Experience designing and building web environments on AWS, which includes working with services like EC2, ELB, RDS, and S3
• Experience building and maintaining cloud-native applications
• A solid background in Linux/Unix and Windows server system administration
• Experience using DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Ansible, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, and Kubernetes.
• Experience installing and configuring different application servers such as IIS, JBoss, NGINX, Tomcat, and WebLogic
• Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, Dynatrace, ELK Stack, and Splunk
• An understanding of writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
• Knowledge of one or more of the most-used programming languages available for today’s cloud computing (i.e., SQL data, XML data, R math, Clojure math, Haskell functional, Erlang functional, Python procedural, and Go procedural languages)
• Experience in troubleshooting distributed systems
• Proficiency in script development and scripting languages
• The ability to be a team player
• The ability and skill to train other people in procedural and technical topics
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• An understanding of automation
• Experience using ServiceNow

• Success working on high performance teams
• Delivered solutions in large scale enterprise environments
• Prior consulting or professional services experience
• Motivated to continually improve your craft, sharing and learning every day
• Exceptional integrity with the desire to create the best possible customer outcomes
• Understanding of the theory, concepts, and real-world application of Continuous Delivery (CD), which requires familiarity with tools like AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline