AWS/EKS Platform Engineer at FEPOC

Job Description Title: AWS/EKS Platform Engineer- 14+ Visas: USC/GC/GC-EAD EST/ CST candidates Work Mode: Remote + 1 or 2 Monthly Onsite in Reston, VA (No Expenses Paid) Interview Mode: 2 videos Must Have : Current Health Insurance Customer Experience AWS certification is required  14-15 years of IT exp + 5 years must be in AWS Cloud EKS, AI, VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups Communicates Architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, while highlighting short-term trade-offs vs. long-term commitments and costs – Engage in and improve the end-to-end Lifecycle of services, starting from Inception & design, deployment, and operations. – Establish automation capabilities leveraging Cloud native solutions, to improve the Developer experience. – Support activities, including System design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews. – Willingness to roll up the sleeves and troubleshoot difficult issues and engage the Customer. – Willingness to learn new AWS Services and other technologies as required. – Systems Scalability and sustainability leveraging automation and strive to improve our systems with changes that improve reliability and velocity. – Experience with Enterprise Cloud transformation and migration efforts. – Actively participate and help guide customers on using Cloud-native design and architecture patterns. – Provide Consultation on Technology infrastructure planning and engineering for assigned systems; Assesses the implications of technology strategies on infrastructure capabilities. – Establish strategies to migrate Legacy applications by conversion to multiple Microservices and hosting on AWS Cloud platform. – Leverage Cloud-native architecture components including Containers, immutable infrastructure, Microservices, Service Mesh etc., to build highly available and Fault tolerant applications. – Conduct research on the global technology trends and their applicability to FEPOC products in support of our internal development teams and business initiatives. – Promotes and ensures Modern application design, applies engineering best practices in the development and operations life cycle and mitigates vulnerabilities. – Monitors and manages the Stability, Availability, and Performance of enterprise systems and platforms across IT domains. o (e.g., Systems, Network, Storage, Security) by analyzing systems to identify problems, trends, and opportunities for improvement. – Automate end to end process to maintain (patches and upgrades) of our AWS Cloud ecosystem. – Makes data-driven recommendations and decisions and continuously improves the overall efficacy and efficiency of our software delivery capabilities. – Mentoring peers as well as engaging with others across teams and socializing solutions.   Required Skills – Minimum of One AWS certification is required. – Minimum of 10years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud. Seeking SME level knowledge in Provision using Automation via EKS. Extensive Knowledge in Provision Platform engineering and Administration is critical. – AI experience is required – Strong Leadership experience with driving Transformation initiatives – Experience with SRE principles and transformation – 3+ years of experience with Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure etc.), DevOps tool chain (Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc.) – Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python. – Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Dev, Architects, Engineers) – Platform Engineering Lead with Hands -on Experience: Building robust Middleware Environments, previous Linux System administration is required. – Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS etc. – Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production level experience in AWS Cloud. – Hands on experience with Automation and Infrastructure Provisioning is a must – Our goal is to only provision infrastructure with Code, and Policy As Code. – Must be familiar with Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code. – Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and CDK is required. – Must have hands on experience in writing Lambda functions preferably in Python (Boto3). – Must be well versed in writing Linux Bash scripts. – Hands-on experience with Containerization and Amazon EKS is a big plus. – A great understanding of various DevOps toolchains, including Git/repo, Crucible, Jenkins etc. – Solid understanding and experience with a CI/CD tool chain.     Kind Regards,   Deep Patel Sr. Technical Recruiter ZealHire Inc. Email:   Deep@zealhire.com 14 Wall Street 20th Floor | New York, NY 10005 www.zealhire.com   Related