Hybrid Cloud Engineer – Contractor

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About the role

  • Design, build, and maintain secure and cost-effective cloud infrastructure on AWS ensuring high availability and scalability.
  • Design, architect, and lead the integration and installation of new technologies with regards to AWS and AWS integrations.
  • Design, build and optimize DevOps pipelines including multiple quality gates and quick feedback loops.
  • Collaborate with application development teams to transform traditional web applications into container-based environments using Docker and AWS Elastic Container Service/Fargate.
  • Lead the coordination of vendors, suppliers and professional services during project engagements and research & development queries.
  • Act as a Technical Lead on a variety of projects, delivering high quality, in an agile environment.
  • Develop KPIs, establishing quantitative and qualitative metrics to track pipeline performance.
  • Keep abreast with the rapid changes in technology and recommend suitable technology improvements that are fit for the business and the IT enterprise.
  • Monitor mission critical applications and troubleshoot any production issues, which will require availability after normal business hours as needed and report on system availability.
  • Provide complete and accurate documentation as required by USP Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and policies.
  • Analyze infrastructure costs, recommend, and implement optimization measures.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in information technology, relevant field, or equivalent work experience.
  • Minimum of five (5) years of hands-on experience building AWS infrastructure and DevOps pipelines.
  • Expertise in AWS foundational services, plus: ECS/Fargate, RDS, RedShift, Glue, ElastiCache, CodeCommit, Batch, Lamda, Route 53, ALBs.
  • Expertise in CI/CD and Agile tool sets including Jira, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins.
  • Strong Linux administration and networking skills.
  • Expertise with web application stack including Apache, Tomcat, PHP, RDS (MySQL, Aurora), APIs.
  • Strong containerization skills using Docker.
  • Demonstrated expertise maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform.
  • Experience with programming/scripting languages, including but not limited to: Terraform, Javascript, Python, PHP, Java, HTML, CSS., JSON.
  • Advanced knowledge of cloud computing and integration methods.
  • Ability to lead, implement, and design large scale complexed technology solutions.
  • Ability to learn new technologies and cross-train and/or be cross-trained as part of IT support team.
  • Ability to interact successfully with all levels of the organization.
  • Ability to lead and manage shifting priorities and to meet deadlines.
  • Must have good research and analytical skills.
  • Must have good organizational and communication skills.

Benefits

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Job title

Cloud Engineer – Contractor

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Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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