AWS Cloud Systems Engineer (100% REMOTE/NO C2C)

Our client, a US Fortune 50 organization and a leading provider of Health care and Health Insurance services, seeks an accomplished Sr AWS Cloud System Engineer

_____________________________________________________________________

NOTE: THIS IS REMOTE ROLE & ONLY W2 CANDIDATES.

** Candidate must be authorized to work in USA without requiring sponsorship ***

Position: Sr AWS Cloud System Engineer (Job Id: WLPTJP00045790)

Location: Baltimore MD (100% REMOTE)

Duration: 6 Months + Contract to Hire

______________________________________________________________________

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build extensive technical knowledge of virtual machines and applications operating in AWS IaaS, PaaS and SaaS environments.
• Perform high-level, day-to-day operational administration of complex multi-user cloud-based computing systems including user management, audits, patches, and upgrades.
• Coordinate, schedule and perform software installations to cloud based operating systems, layered software packages, and databases.
• Support and troubleshoot web applications. This includes utilizing application and server logs to identify and resolve issues.
• Support applications hosted in an AWS cloud environment, including deployments, patches, security checks, and maintenance.
• Daily monitoring of the network, servers, cloud and applications to ensure full availability and optimum performance. Utilize software tools and logs to monitor network and system health.
• Create and update documentation, including standard operating procedures, administrative instructions, after action reports for system outages, task status updates, and customer reports.
• Support for system and data security requirements, and documented system artifacts required for security certification.
• Make recommendations to integrate new custom and cloud software, coordinates installation and supports operations.
• Assist with application integration and troubleshooting in this infrastructure for a complex application environment, including management of dependencies on services, platforms, and other applications within the cloud infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot across multiple applications and create run books and playbooks for each event with the necessary escalation paths established.
• Maintain system security strategies, policies, and procedures.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE

• Bachelor s degree in relevant field (Engineering, IT etc.) or equivalent with 7+ years of experience with building AWS infrastructure or migrating private on premise solutions to cloud hosting environments.
• 4+ years of experience with AWS configuration management, cloud orchestration automation tools.
• Extensive experience with RHEL system administration - administration within virtualized environments is preferred.
• Solid understanding of and experience with provisioning and managing infrastructure as well as applications in cloud environments (AWS).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Ansible) and fluency in the associated programming languages (e.g. Ruby, Python)
• Experience with AWS Services; EC2, Cloud Formation, VPC, ELB, AWS Security, S3, RDS, EBS, ECS - or equivalent.
• Knowledge of and experience with monitoring, metrics collection, and reporting using open source tools.
• Ability to work effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.
• Ability to perform cloud performance analysis and optimize distributed cloud systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• AWS certifications
• 3+ years of experience with Agile practices, service-oriented environments.

_____________________________________________________________

If you're looking for rewarding employment and a company that puts its employees first, we'd like to work with you. We're driven, people driven

Bhupesh Khurana

Senior Technical Recruiter

Email:

Amerit Consulting is an extremely fast-growing staffing and consulting firm. Amerit Consulting was founded in 2002 to provide consulting, temporary staffing, direct hire, and payrolling services to Fortune 500 companies nationally; as well as small to mid-sized organizations on a local & regional level. Currently, Amerit has over 2,000 employees in 47 states. We develop and implement solutions that help our clients operate more efficiently, deliver greater customer satisfaction, and see a positive impact on their bottom line. We create value by bringing together the right people to achieve results. Our clients and employees say they choose to work with Amerit because of how we work with them - with service that exceeds their expectations and a personal commitment to their success. Our deep expertise in human capital management has fueled our expansion into direct hire placements, temporary staffing, contract placements, and additional staffing and consulting services that propel our clients businesses forward.

Amerit Consulting provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Applicants, with criminal histories, are considered in a manner that is consistent with local, state and federal laws.