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Title: AWS Infrastructure Platform Engineer
Length of project: 12 months
Remote
Type: Long-Term Contract (Strictly W2 Only)
Client: Confidential at this time
Visa: Any visa (Must be eligible to work on W2)
Project Description
Teams within Infrastructure Platform and Services (Foundations and Compute) are providing resources for the Unified Development Platform, Modernization, and Enablement with a focus on AWS infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities and Features
End-to-end ownership: These teams have full responsibility for a specific set of technology services, including the tooling, infrastructure, and standards required.
Support for business platforms: They build and manage the technology platforms that support what Gartner calls "digital business capabilities
Foundational services: The services provided are the building blocks for other applications and include areas like:
Application infrastructure and hosting
Data and database management
Integration services
Why you will Love this role:
- Platform Engineering: The concept of building a robust, internal platform for other engineers to consume, rather than performing one-off infrastructure tasks
- Seniority and Mentorship: ery experienced (level four) engineers who could also act as mentors and teachers for existing team members
- Automation at Scale with Tools: Terraform, Python, and GitHub actions for build and platform management: The teams needs to evolve beyond manual "click ops" towards building a scalable, automated, and consumable AWS platform for internal use.
- Adoption of Serverless Compute: implementation of Lambdas and step functions was a "newer piece" for the team- adopting more serverless technologies in the coming year.
- Centralized Developer Portals: integrating the platform components into Backstage - an emerging trend within our Client to create a unified and streamlined developer experience.
Required Experience
- AWS Foundations
- API Development
- Lambda / Step Functions
- EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
- Automation
Preferred Skills
- Flexible with approach
- Teacher of technology
- Collaborative design
- Detail oriented
- Well versed in technology