Systems Engineer - Columbia, United States - RAPS CONSULTING INC

Description

SCOPE OF THE PROJECT:
( Department of Health and Human Services)

The MES Core project is a multi-year effort to enable standardized data exchange between numerous internal systems and external data trading partners.

MES Core has been in production since 2018 but is continuously expanding to accommodate new systems and evolving business requirements.

Role Summary/Purpose

The Systems Engineer - Advanced position will serve as a senior AWS DevOps engineer supporting the Medicaid Enterprise System (MES) development and operations teams by designing and deploying secure AWS services in a timely manner.

This position requires deep knowledge and experience with AWS tools, capabilities, and resources, with an understanding of both on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure resources.

In this role, you will work with architects, developers, testers, business analysts, technical writers, and other team members with varying levels of technical expertise.

It is essential that you possess excellent verbal and written communications skills.

You must be able to work independently and proactively with little supervision, but you must also work well with others in a team environment.

Daily Duties / Responsibilities:

• Maintain and manage systems that are highly available, scalable, resilient, and secure on the AWS platform.
• Design, implement, manage, and maintain DevOps tools to automate operational processes in AWS platform.
• Lead and/or contribute to the development, maintenance, and usage of secure deployment infrastructure to meet HIP nd other regulatory requirements.
• Troubleshoot production issues and create root cause analysis report.
• Work within an Agile team framework to collaborate with other DevOps team members to prioritize and assign work.
• Coordinate with other development teams to provide support and manage technical expectations.
• Collaborate with architects and developers to design effective and secure solutions.
• Collaborate with team to design, implement, automate, maintain, and troubleshoot security controls, governance processes, and compliance support.

Qualifications:

This position requires extensive experience working with software development and deployment tools, and supporting the technical infrastructure for production operations.

A thorough knowledge of AWS tools and services are required, along with excellent communications skills and the ability to work in an Agile team environment.

REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):

• 5 years of experience in a DevOps role.
• 3 years of experience in working with core AWS solutions and available services.
• 1 year of experience working in an Agile team environment
• Hands-on advanced experience developing automation using CloudFormation.
• 3 years of experience in Python Language.
• 3 years of experience in a Linux Shell Scripting.
• 3 years of experience in a Linux

PREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):

• Deep knowledge on AWS core components (examples: IAM, WAF, API Gateway, ECS, EBS, Glue, EC2, S3, SNS, Lambda, Security groups, VPC, CFT, Route 53, certificate manager, AWS build pipelines and AWS cloud trail).
• Experience with cloud security and compliance services
• Ability to identify system vulnerabilities and provide solution designs.
• Knowledge of operating systems patching.

REQUIRED EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar 4-year technical degree

2 years of relevant work experience may be substituted for 1 year of education


PREFERRED EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS:

• AWS CERTIFIED SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT - ASSOCIATE/PROFESSIONAL
• AWS CERTIFIED DEVOPS ENGINEER - ASSOCIATE/PROFESSIONAL