Sr. Systems Engineer - Minneapolis, United States - Horizontal Talent

Description

Job Description:

• We are Platform and Operations and dedicated to platform automation and maintain operational excellence at Client.
• Our culture emphasizes creativity, teamwork, and continuous learning.

Project Description:

• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure that enable most of our Client technology footprint to run.
• Responsible to managing lifecycle of the infrastructure and optimizes to improve stability, minimize incidents and response times, while reducing costs.

Position Summary/Job Description:

• Design and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure to support Client applications and services.
• Implement best practices for cloud security, monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate cloud solutions into existing systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to cloud infrastructure and services.
• Stay updated with AWS services, features, and industry trends to recommend improvements.

Skills Overview:
What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?

• 8+ years of proven experience as a cloud engineer with a focus on AWS.
• 5+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Cloud Formation.
• 5+ years of experience with Configuration Management such as Chef and Ansible.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and scalability concepts in cloud environments.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, etc.,
• Effective collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues and excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support for cloud related incidents and emergencies.

What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools such as AWS Cloud Watch/Splunk.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools for CICD pipelines.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and software development life cycle (SDLC).
• AWS certification (e.g AWS solution architect)

Horizontal is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We seek to provide employment opportunities to talented, qualified candidates regardless of race, color, sex/gender including gender identity and/or expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under federal, state or local law.

In addition, Horizontal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation in order to complete the application or interview process, please contact us. All applicants applying must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment.
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