AWS Operations Engineer - Mid Level

Client: Ed Tech

Title: AWS Operations Engineer - Mid Level

Duration: Long Term

Location: 100% Remote

About the Opportunity    

·        As an Engineer on the Platform Operations team, you are a gifted technologist and problem solver.

·        You understand cloud software delivery, tools, and processes that empower efficient and resilient delivery that adheres to top-notch development practices.

·        You are technologically curious and seek out opportunities to research emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products.

·        Your excellent communication and collaboration skills allow you to effectively articulate solutions to the development community, enabling all to succeed.

·        You are communicative, approachable, self-driven, and collaborative.   

In this role, you will: 

Design & Implementation (75%) 

·        Build solutions using the best practices of Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps 

·        Continuously develop the skills required to work as part of the agile team in a poly-skilled development environment 

·        Write code to automate the infrastructure lifecycle, create and support internal tools utilizing IaC, and be able to use CLIs 

·        Partner with domain SMEs (Delivery Team Software Engineers, Security, Infrastructure, Network, Observability and Operations) to research, analyze and implement features and capabilities  

·        Contribute to the development and growth of the Cloud Engineering Program, through thought leadership, design and implementation of tools and processes.

Team Operations & Success (25%) 

·        Implement cloud-first architectural solutions and best practices 

·        Participate in agile scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily SCRUM, Demo, Retro) and contribute to team deliverables 

·        Participate in peer reviews of software engineering artifacts 

·        Maintain, operate and monitor Platform products and infrastructure  

·        Assist in the identification and resolution of production and production-like issues 

·        Ensure the team is adhering to development standards and security policies and procedures   

You have: 

·        3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD framework, immutable infrastructure, automation, orchestration, and other modern DevOps patterns 

·        Technical knowledge of Cloud Computing, DevOps, and Microservices 

·        Strong knowledge and experience with distributed cloud infrastructure within AWS

·        Experience working with AWS resources such as Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, Step Functions, EC2, ECS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, DynamoDB is a plus 

·        Experience building event-driven Cloud-based serverless applications 

·        Coding/scripting experience with Python, JavaScript, React.js, Node.js

·        Excellent communication and collaboration skills with an ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language 

·        Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain good customer working relationships 

·        Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities 

·        Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment