Overview
Full Time
Contract - W2
Contract - 12+month(s)
100% Travel
Skills
devops
aws
Cloud
linux
Job Details
Lead AWS devops engineer
Mountain, CA
What we are looking for
- Work directly with our clients as a Lead AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer, senior Linux admin and database migration expert
- Maintain security in existing AWS accounts, infrastructure and resources based on Samsung AWS Cloud corporate security standards and AWS security best practices
- Lead and oversee the migration and upgrade of live databases in AWS using industry standard as well as proprietary methodologies
- Develop and maintain secure and reliable cloud infrastructure (OS patch, backup, monitoring, secure logging, and Linux user account creation)
- Support or modify underlying AWS infrastructure and services
- Automate cloud deployments, as well as build CI/CD pipeline to support cloud based workloads
- Provide experienced knowledge and expertise in Ubuntu Linux administration, Ansible, Cloud native automation tools, Cockroach DB, PostgreSQL and ElasticSearch
- Develop and maintain technical documentation
- Troubleshoot technical issues in Linux and database environments
- Experience in live database upgrades and migrations in AWS
- Ubuntu operating system upgrade from 16 to 22
- Elastic search software upgrade
- CockroachDB software upgrade
- Jenkins software upgrade
- Monitoring (sensu, grafana) upgrade
- Ubuntu operating system upgrade experience
- Linux systems administration
- Strong networking tcp/ip
- Automated upgrades using Ansible or other automation technology
- Experience creating upgrade plans including application validation.
Qualifications
- Master's/Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field, and two years of experience in software/systems or related.
- 8+ years overall industry experience.
- Experience leading DevOps teams in supporting AWS cloud upgrades, database migrations and administration
Work experience must include:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience. You have DevOps/Automation experience on Amazon AWS
- Experience with AWS EC2 AMI's and EBS volume migration
- Cloud: Amazon AWS, AWS Marketplace, PaaS, IaaS, SaaS
- Platforms and tools: Cockroach DB, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Python, Bash and other scripting languages
- DevOps/Automation: Terraform, OpsWorks, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
- Experience with onsite to cloud migration assessment and implementation
- Worked and hands-on experience in cloud migration and in a multi-cloud environment
- Expertise with data and/or DB migrations running in the AWS cloud environment
- Knowledge on cloud computing technology (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
- Experience with networking, compute infrastructure such as servers, databases, firewalls and load balancers
- Knowledge of system monitoring, capacity planning and understand architecture principles across infrastructure platform
- Hands-on experience with administration on variety of Linux/Windows systems
- Hands-on experience with cluster configuration (Windows, Linux)
- Experience with information security best practices and procedures
- Cloud certifications are required; Cloud Solutions Architect-Associate level or above and AWS Specialty certifications AWS Database Specialty certification a plus
- Hands-on experience with Jira/Confluence
- Excellent Lead DevOps engineer leadership skills
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills