Description

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor, maintain, and configure AWS-based systems and infrastructure supporting strategic initiatives and projects.
• Support the development of new systems and the maintenance of existing applications and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to follow standard processes, manage applications, maintain documentation, and develop standard operating procedures.
• Configure and support AWS services, including EC2, IAM, S3, Route 53, Lambda, SQS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, VPC, RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL, and Application Load Balancer.
• Provide Linux administration support for AWS environments running Amazon Linux and CentOS.
• Assist with installation, configuration, deployment, upgrades, and maintenance of applications such as Jira, Confluence, and qTest hosted on AWS.
• Automate application deployments, maintenance activities, upgrades, and software fixes.
• Configure cloud security settings and implement remediation actions to address security issues.
• Research emerging technologies and recommend solutions that meet business requirements.
• Coordinate with vendors and IT personnel to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of overall IT experience in the design and development of web-based and cloud-based applications.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services, including EC2, VPC, S3, EBS, IAM, RDS, and CloudWatch.
• Experience designing and architecting serverless web applications using AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
• Experience with shell scripting in Linux environments; Unix administration experience is a plus.
• Programming and scripting experience with C#, Bash shell scripting, and JavaScript.
• Experience with AWS Data Migration Service (DMS).
• Experience architecting backup, restore, and disaster recovery solutions for AWS workloads and databases.
• Experience using AWS CLI, Python, and PowerShell scripts.
• Experience architecting and managing AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), EC2 instances, and Application Load Balancers.
• Experience with cloud network architecture, VPN tunnels, VPC peering, and VPC configuration across multiple AWS accounts.
• Experience managing S3, EBS, EFS, SES, and SQS services.
• Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using tools such as Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline.
• Understanding of AWS Cloud architectural principles and best practices.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Experience with object-oriented programming using C#.
• Experience developing SOAP and RESTful web services.
• Experience using Splunk HTTP Event Collector (HEC) or HTTP-based data forwarding to collect and send application data to Splunk from AWS environments.
• Strong experience with end-to-end monitoring using Splunk SaaS and its Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) capabilities.
• AWS certification is preferred

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree