Cloud Engineer - Trenton, United States - Crescens Inc.

Description

Job Title: AWS Engineer

Job Location: Hamilton, NJ (Hybrid)

Duration: 6+ Months (Can extendable for 12+ Months)

This is 37.5 hrs./Week Job (Not 40 hrs./week)

Notes: (round one, IN-PERSON interview)

This position is a long term role that is expected to extend well beyond the dates listed in this requisition.

All candidates are to work onsite 3 days per week and interviews process for this role will be in-person ONLY and intensive and have heavy technical interviews in all required skill areas.

Description:

• Background and experience providing DevOps support to Cloud deployed Applications .
• Strong experience in production support, for the applications in production or to be deployed into production
• A deep understanding and familiarity with: Linux, and Web/Application servers Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, etc.
• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production system
• Monitoring and logging systems –Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, Elastic Search
• Networking knowledge - Firewalls, VPNs, proxies & Load balancers
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems.
• Experience with Python, shell or other scripting language
• Manages and maintains the hardware, software, security, and connectivity to the Internet as well as middleware components
• Good understanding on User management, both for Windows and Linux machines. Integration with AD group on-prem, SSO would be good to have
• Software Development Fundamentals, Problem Solving, Documentation Skills, Verbal Communication, Application Maintenance, Application and System Security, Promotes Team Building and Process Improvement, System Administration.
• Troubleshoots and resolves system service failures by identifying and analyzing the situation and provides corrective actions.
• Monitors systems activities and fine tunes system parameters and configuration to optimize performance and ensure security of systems.
• Monitor daily systems, evaluate the availability of all server resources and carry out all Linux server tasks
• Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions.
• Fault finding, analysis and of logging information for reporting of performance exceptions
• Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning
• Integrate automated testing frameworks into the CI/CD pipelines to ensure code quality and reliability.
• Implement blue-green deployments, canary releases, and other deployment strategies to minimize downtime and risk
• Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, hot fixes on servers, workstations, and network hardware
• Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks
• Thorough understanding of protocols such as DNS, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP, and SNMP
• Create and maintain documentation related to system configurations and procedures
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS platform.

Skills:

• Background and experience providing DevOps support to Cloud deployed Applications.
• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production system
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems and the RDS DB
• Experience with Python, shell or other scripting language for Batch processing and the Data processing
• Troubleshoots and resolves system service failures by identifying and analyzing the situation and provides corrective actions for api deployments
• Integrate automated testing frameworks into the CI/CD pipelines to ensure code quality and reliability.
• Implement blue-green deployments, canary releases, and other deployment strategies to minimize downtime and risk