AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Seeking a AWS Platform Engineer in the Washington DC, Maryland and/or Virginia area for a long term contract position with our customer in Reston VA (Hybrid position, 1x onsite per week in Reston VA)

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Communicates Architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, while highlighting short-term trade-offs vs. long-term commitments and costs
- Engage in and improve the end-to-end Lifecycle of services, starting from Inception & design, deployment, and operations.
- Establish automation capabilities leveraging Cloud native solutions, to improve the Developer experience.
- Support activities, including System design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
- Willingness to roll up the sleeves and troubleshoot difficult issues and engage the Customer.
- Willingness to learn new AWS Services and other technologies as required.
- Systems Scalability and sustainability leveraging automation and strive to improve our systems with changes that improve reliability and velocity.
- Experience with Enterprise Cloud transformation and migration efforts.
- Actively participate and help guide customers on using Cloud-native design and architecture patterns.
- Provide Consultation on Technology infrastructure planning and engineering for assigned systems; Assesses the implications of technology strategies on infrastructure capabilities.
- Establish strategies to migrate Legacy applications by conversion to multiple Microservices and hosting on AWS Cloud platform.
- Leverage Cloud-native architecture components including Containers, immutable infrastructure, Microservices, Service Mesh etc., to build highly available and Fault tolerant applications.
- Conduct research on the global technology trends and their applicability to FEPOC products in support of our internal development teams and business initiatives.
- Promotes and ensures Modern application design, applies engineering best practices in the development and operations life cycle and mitigates vulnerabilities.
- Monitors and manages the Stability, Availability, and Performance of enterprise systems and platforms across IT domains.
o (e.g., Systems, Network, Storage, Security) by analyzing systems to identify problems, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
- Automate end to end process to maintain (patches and upgrades) of our AWS Cloud ecosystem.
- Makes data-driven recommendations and decisions and continuously improves the overall efficacy and efficiency of our software delivery capabilities.
- Mentoring peers as well as engaging with others across teams and socializing solutions.

Required Skills

- Minimum of One AWS certification is required.
- Minimum of 10years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud. Seeking SME level knowledge in Provision using Automation via EKS. Extensive Knowledge in Provision Platform engineering and Administration is critical.
- Strong Leadership experience with driving Transformation initiatives
- Experience with SRE principles and transformation
- 3+ years of experience with Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure etc.), DevOps tool chain (Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc.)
- Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python.
- Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Dev, Architects, Engineers)
- Platform Engineering Lead with Hands -on Experience: Building robust Middleware Environments, previous Linux System administration is required.
- Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS etc.
- Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production level experience in AWS Cloud.
- Hands on experience with Automation and Infrastructure Provisioning is a must
- Our goal is to only provision infrastructure with Code, and Policy As Code.
- Must be familiar with Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.
- Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and CDK is required.
- Must have hands on experience in writing Lambda functions preferably in Python (Boto3).
- Must be well versed in writing Linux Bash scripts.
- Hands-on experience with Containerization and Amazon EKS is a big plus.
- A great understanding of various DevOps toolchains, including Git/repo, Crucible, Jenkins etc.
- Solid understanding and experience with a CI/CD tool chain.

Additional Comments

- Location: Hybrid - onsite 1x per week (some weeks may be more). Must be local to Reston, VA (DC, MD, VA)
- Interview process: Video then onsite is required
- Provisioning focused Cloud Engineer to support On-prem to cloud migration effort, leverage EKS. Some applications in containers, some are not. Then they have GenAI workflows / business requirements via BedRock.
- This is an infrastructure Cloud Engineer - focused on networking/infrastructure/platform engineering - not looking for SW Application Developer
- Must have EKS / AWS Core Services (bedrock, sagemaker, etc...) / Networking knowledge for troubleshooting (on prem applications require this) / Strong Provisioning / Terraform / Automation via Ansible / AI Exposure-
- AI Exposure, basic knowledge, is now required.
- Troubleshooting of infrastructure provisioning and platform - developers test the application, if the test surfaces an infrastructure issue their team will resolve it.-
- Would really like regulated industry experience since they are in healthcare