LOGISTICS:
Role: Sr AWS Cloud Platform Engineer
Company: to be released via phone call - fortune 500 hospitality client
Location: HYBRID in Scottsdale, AZ - onsite 3x per week
Duration: permanent direct hire
Pay Rate: $110,000-$140,000 + 10% annual bonus (salary will depend on level of seniority)
Work Authorization: direct W2 with the client - client cannot sponsor or work C2C
MUST HAVES:
- 7+ years of progressive experience in IT infrastructure engineering, software development, information systems, or equivalent
- 4+ years of enterprise AWS cloud experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure including compute, storage, database, networking, and security related services.
- 2+ years of experience with Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment tools such as Harness and DevOps toolchain technologies such as Jenkins, Git and Nexus
- Virtualization and containerization
- Scripting experience - preferably python
Ideal Candidate:
- Proficient in One or more scripting languages (Python, Bash, Ruby, PowerShell, or Groovy)
- Proficient in Cloud automation templating (CloudFormation or Terraform)
- Proficient in Configuration management and deployment automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Salt, or Chef.
- Proficient in Log aggregation and monitoring tools such as OpenSearch, CloudWatch, Sensu, Prometheus and APM solutions.
- Experience in one or more of the following technology areas required: AWS serverless technologies (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB Event Bridge, Step Functions), Container Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate) Messaging (SQS, Kinesis, ActiveMQ, Kafka) or Distributed application development (Java or Python, microservices architecture, REST protocols)
- Demonstrates key competencies to include Drives Vision and Purpose, Action Oriented and Communicates Effectively
Summary:
- Leads the design, implementation, and administration of cloud-based infrastructure automation and continuous delivery capabilities including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and Site Reliability.
- Oversees, builds, and maintains operational tools for monitoring and analyzing AWS infrastructure and systems.
- Evaluates and leads the operationalization of new tools, technologies, and cloud services.
- Works collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements and to ensure adherence to cloud security standards, reference architectures, patterns, and best practices.
- Optimizes cloud environments for both performance and cost-effectiveness.