AWS Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deployment, automation, management and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production systems.
  
• Ensuring availability, performance, security and scalability of AWS production systems.
  
• Managing / administrating Linux environments.
  
• Evaluating new technology alternatives and vendor products.
  
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across the cloud infrastructure stack.
  
• Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions.
  
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
  
• Implementation of security protocols by evaluating business strategies and requirements.
  
• Maintenance / management of tools for automation of different operational processes.
  
• Definition, deployment and management of metrics, logging, monitoring and alerting.
  
• Tracking and understanding emerging practices and standards.
  
• Participating in educational opportunities.
  
• Reading professional publications and participating in professional organizations.
  
• Leading and growing a Cloud Engineering team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Systems Engineering, IT Engineering.
  
• AWS certifications required (SysOps Administrator is preferred)
• 5+ years' experience in Infrastructure, Software Development and DevOps.
  
• 3+ years' experience with Linux operating systems.
  
• 2+ years' experience with AWS Cloud Services.
  
• 1+ years' experience working as a team lead.
  
• Experience in the following would be beneficial:
• Java or a similar object oriented programming language is beneficial.
• Financial services or banking organisations.
• Engineering data pipelines such as Apache Kafka.
• ELK or similar on Public Cloud Platforms.
• Developing and supporting infrastructure and Cloud capabilities for container-orchestration architectures.
• Working with scripting and provisioning tools like Ansible, CloudFormation or equivalent.
• Configuration of VPN and firewall management.
• Authentication and authorization technologies / protocols (LDAP, Kerberos, AD, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML).