Title: AWS Devops Engineer
Location: Herndon, VA but REMOTE
Rate: $75-80/hr W2
Client: SAP
Key Areas of Responsibility and Tasks:
Good oral and written communication skills in English
Education:
BA/BS degree in MIS/CS or equivalent experience
Location: Herndon, VA but REMOTE
Rate: $75-80/hr W2
Client: SAP
Key Areas of Responsibility and Tasks:
- Develop and automate manual tasks to improve day-to-day activities and scalability of time-consuming operations and management of our cloud environments (Linux and Windows)
- Coordinate the work of both internal and external engineers, to build automation solutions
- Work with multiple groups within the company to establish schedules, priorities, and staffing requirements necessary to develop automation
- Analyze current technology and processes in use and recommend improvements
- Document automation solutions with all details required for implementation
- Produce documentation about automation solutions suitable for customer review and for sales presentations
- Providing daily automation development through scripting to ensure all system technical requirements are addressed
- Develop tooling and improve processes to automate monitoring, metrics collection and analysis
- Implementing self-service tooling to improve team operations and management of the infrastructure
- Participate in team code reviews and design reviews
- Handle multiple work streams across multiple engagements
- Planning future phases of and supporting customer deployments and environments
- Manage systems availability, administration, configuration, and compliance
- Help triage and resolve issues in the infrastructure
- 5-7 years of experience working in a Linux environment
- Experience working in a 24 x 7 enterprise environment
- Experience in provisioning and managing public cloud Environment
- Experience in Cloud provisioning tools, preferably Terraform
- Expert in Linux troubleshooting and log file forensics
- Expert with Shell Scripting (Bash, Korn, C)
- Expert developing solutions using Python
- Experience using Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or another server/configuration management tool
- Experience using Jira or similar tools
- Experience using Git and with Git workflows including tagging, branching, and integration with other tools such as Jira
- Experience using testing frameworks like Pytest for Python or Junit for Java
- Experience using Terraform or CloudFormation for infrastructure automation
- Able to debug and resolve complex issues in cloud environments
- Experience in CI/CD and Devops tools like Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker, Vault
- Triage and support system applications including but not limited to Apache, DNS, Sendmail, SSH, TCP/IP, NFS and common Internet protocols.
- Excellent knowledge of operating system internals, file system structures and machine architectures in a Linux operating environment.
- Ability to write and maintain Perl/Python and Shell scripts to automate processes and enhance productivity.
- Experienced working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with well-developed practices and procedures.
- Outstanding interpersonal, analytical, and communication skills
- Ability to multitask with several customers, co-workers, and projects
- Must be reliable and dependable with ability to multi-task across various functions
- AWS Devops Engineer or Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert certifications
- Software development background with full stack experience
Good oral and written communication skills in English
Education:
BA/BS degree in MIS/CS or equivalent experience