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Kforce is working with a fast-growing firm located in Fort Washington, PA and we are seeking a Remote Senior AWS DevOps Engineer.
Summary:
The Senior AWS DevOps Engineer will be responsible for supporting the firms technical stack of AWS environments across all applications and manage the resolution of applications and system issues that arise across the business. You will quickly respond to technical problems that occur abruptly and requires immediate attention. You should be proactive, motivated, organized, extremely flexible, take initiative, and work well within fast paced groups.
Responsibilities:
Senior AWS DevOps Engineer will ensure all our AWS systems are secure, scalable, responsive, and reliable
Collaborating with on-call engineers to troubleshoot issues and minimize downtime
Benchmarking, analyzing, and reporting on and/or making recommendations for the improvement and growth of cloud operations and infrastructure
Develop and implement instrumentation for monitoring the health and availability of services including fault detection, alerting, triage, and recovery
Implementing appropriate logging, monitoring, and reporting DevOps related capabilities
Support AWS RDS and Aurora Postgres and MySQL database performance, maintenance, and troubleshooting
Maintain and enhance the Redis cache cluster working closely with the Dev team
Runbook development and train SL1/SL2 team members to decrease SL3 tickets amount
As a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer, you will participate in Team-Wide Change Management process as both implementer and verifier, ensuring changes are completed efficiently & correctly
Onboarding of New Applications into Standardized Release Pipeline
Verify data protection and disaster recovery capabilities through regular service restore tests
Use automation provision and configure infrastructure as a code
REQUIREMENTS:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
5+ years of relevant experience with different cloud technologies especially AWS
Must be an excellent team player working with multi-disciplinary teams (Developers, Architects, Operations and Testers) to fully automate and build out new application environments on the Cloud, spearheading automation, and high performing system projects
Understanding of Networking Technologies like Load balancer, Firewall, VIP, DNS
Experience with designing and deploying AWS Services like Elastic Compute (EC2), ECS, ECR, Storages (S3, EBS, EFS, Glacier and AWS Storage Gateway), RDS and Aurora
Experience working in a team environment using a Source Configuration Management tool a plus (Subversion, GitHub, GitLab, etc.)
Experience with open sourced webservices environments (Apache, PHP, etc.)
Experience with APM monitoring tools like New Relic is required
Experience with AWS caching technologies is required
Experience with Terraform or Cloud Formation YAML scripting
Hands on experience with Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools and processes like Jenkins
Experience with supporting RDS and Aurora databases is required
Proficient understanding of container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
