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Position: System Engineer IV
Location: Washington, DC (2 days a week onsite)
Job Type: Contract Assignment
Job Description:
SUMMARY / OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this position is to assist **** IT Operations department accomplish the following objectives:
* Design, develop, document, test, and debug new configuration management (Terraform) infrastructure as code from scratch.
* Operationalize AWS and implement security mechanisms for AWS services.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS
* General AWS Architecture
* AWS Command Line Interface
* Shell Scripting (Shell, Perl and Python)
* Unix/Linux systems installation, operations, administration, and maintenance
* Unix shell and standard utilities, and common Unix/ Linux security tools
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
* Collaborate with internal teams to architect, engineer, configure and deploy AWS and other infrastructure technologies using approved organizational technologies.
* Work hand in hand with System Operations to develop self-service infrastructure provisioning, delivery pipelines, log, and monitoring services.
* Update system documentation as required
* Collaborates with IT Operations Engineers in installing applications and servers including both physical and virtual types.
* Monitor, fix and improve infrastructure continuously.
* Operates monitoring, alerting, backups, antivirus, anti-spam, malware, etc. as well as offsite storage, and data mirroring.
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND EXPERIENCE
* Bachelor Degree and/or relevant technical training with no preferred certification.
* Seven (7) to Ten (10) years of directly related experience.
* Three (3) to Five (5) years of operational and/or technical experience.
* Extensive knowledge of Linux server operating systems.
* Extensive knowledge of designing, developing and troubleshooting new and existing scripting.
* Experience in systems administration and Engineering in a mature Enterprise environment.
* Extensive AWS Cloud infrastructure environments including ECS, EC2, API, S3, Lambda and others.
* Sophisticated understanding of ports, protocols, and routing and switching in a firewalled, wide- area network.
* Experience with Public Cloud infrastructure management
* Bonus - Experience with RHEL Satellite server.
* Bonus - Experience with Puppet
* Bonus - Experience with the Atlassian Suite of products
LICENSES, CERTIFICATES
* AWS Certification