AWS Cloud Engineer

A multinational financial services firm is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to join their team in New York, New York.

Responsibilities

• Migrate complex, multi-tier applications from on-prem to AWS
• Select appropriate AWS services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements
• Work in a globally distributed team to provide innovative and robust Cloud centric solutions
• Work with Product Management and Vendors to develop and deploy Cloud services to meet customer expectations
• Integrate, configure, document and deploy compliant infrastructure and supporting services in the Cloud platform
• Design, Optimization and Documentation of the Operational aspects of the Cloud platform
• Troubleshoot problems, resolving root cause, and where possible, fixing the bug(s)
• Work with Risk Management to ensure necessary controls to Cloud services are deployed and tested
• Work with customers to develop robust and re-useable configuration management components

Qualifications

Required

• Must have at least a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related field
• 3+ years of experience working with AWS and a proven track record of building complex infrastructure
• Expert level knowledge with AWS design, architecture and services (EC2, IAM, S3 etc.)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Cloudformation etc.)
• Knowledge of server infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud computing
• Experience with architecting and maintaining high availability production systems
• Strong development skills in Python
• Experience in Software Installation, configuration and Patching Knowledge of system monitoring in a cloud environment including cloud specific products and tools
• Experience with Agile and DevOps concepts Developing monitoring architecture and implementing monitoring agents, dashboards, escalations and alerts

Preferred

• Knowledge of security (SAML, OAuth, OpenID, Kerberos, Policies, entitlements etc.)
• RedHat Enterprise Linux in-depth knowledge Infrastructure deployment experience in the Public cloud Knowledge of security controls for the Public cloud (encryption of data in motion/rest and key management)
• Experience with distributed, parallel file systems and related tools (GPFS, CFS, etc.) Knowledge of Linux containers
• Financial industry experience