Sr. Cloud Engineer ( AWS / Terraform / Direct Connect)

Senior AWS Cloud Engineer / DevOps

• 12 months contract
• HYBRID - 1-2 days a week in office in Downers Grove ,IL
• In-person interview required
• Locals or from nearby states.
• The focus is on AWS, Terraform, IaC, creating pipelines
• Amazon VPC (virtual networks)
• ECS/EKS (containers)
• Direct Connect
• Harness ( big plus)
• Migration project

Job Profile Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join a friendly team working on some of the hottest AWS technologies. This team is primarily focused on the deployment, automation and support of mission-critical client solutions in AWS..

The successful candidate will be someone who can demonstrate a genuine desire and passion for AWS, client service and automation.

Skills and Experience

• 8+ years experience in supporting highly customer-focused mission critical environments (e.g. high profile websites or enterprise infrastructure) essential.
• 3+ years experience of engineering, architecting, or supporting AWS solutions.
• Excellent O/S knowledge and experience in Linux with basic knowledge of the other OS. RHCE or equivalent level of knowledge preferred.
• Experience of implementing and supporting AWS Infrastructure via Terraform.
• Experience of implementing and supporting AWS based instances and services (e.g. EC2, S3, ECS/ EKS, Amazon VPC, EBS, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route53, CloudFront, Elasticache, WAF etc.).
• Experience of building and maintaining scalable and auto-scaled environments using automation and configuration management tools (e.g. Cloud formation/Terraform and Ansible) beneficial or can be gained.
• Scripting ability in one or more of Python, PowerShell, Bash, Perl
• Experience of using Git for version control useful
• Experience of working with or supporting containerized environments (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes/Docker)
• Experience of Jenkins or other CI/CD pipeline technology useful or can be gained.
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP.
• A degree in a computing-related discipline preferred or equivalent ability and knowledge.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working in an ITIL environment beneficial.
• Client focused and results drive

CERTIFICATIONS ( a plus)

• Hold a number of current AWS Associate and Professional level Certifications
• Hold at least one AWS Certified Specialty certification (e.g. Security or Networking)

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the lead engineer on large or complex client deploy projects
• Act as the lead engineer on product engineering projects to further develop our service
• Provide AWS subject matter expertise advice and assistance to pre-sales architects.
• Expert in infrastructure deployment via Terraform.
• Installation, configuration, and ongoing management of O/S and AWS services.
• Implementing and maintaining custom client machine images and centralized configuration management to enable quick repeatable builds and auto-scaling.
• Maintaining high availability through proactive measures.
• Troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues.
• Ensuring clients & partners are updated on status of work and issues.
• Raise, investigate, and resolve problems and known errors in line with the problem management process.
• Ability and willingness to proactively improve ways of working, automation, and processes via our continual improvement Kanban board.
• Partake in an oncall rotation to provide 24x7 4th line support for Ensono s AWS clients.
• Proactively keep up to date on AWS services and developments.
• Buddy new members of the team and train other teams
• Act as team leader and technical escalation point in Manager s absence

The anticipated hourly rate range for this position is ($58-$60), during the contract period. Actual hourly rate will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, retirement and/or other benefits are available after a waiting period.