AWS Platform Engineer

Container Security Tools: Twistlock, Sysdig, Aqua etc. is a plus, Platform Monitoring, Observability, & Performance Tools: Nginx, New Relic, AppDynamics, Data Dog, Thanos, Jaeger, LogDNA, etc. Leverage Cloud-native architecture components including Containers, immutable infrastructure, Microservices, Service Mesh etc., to build highly available and Fault tolerant applications.

Our Client, a Health Insurance company, is looking for an AWS Platform Engineer for their Reston, VA / Hybrid location.
 
Responsibilities:

• Communicates Architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, while highlighting short-term trade-offs vs. long-term commitments and costs
• Engage in and improve the end-to-end Lifecycle of services, starting from Inception & design, deployment, and operations.
• Establish automation capabilities leveraging Cloud native solutions, to improve the Developer experience.
• Support activities, including System design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
• Willingness to roll up the sleeves and troubleshoot difficult issues and engage the Customer.
• Willingness to learn new AWS Services and other technologies as required.
• Systems Scalability and sustainability leveraging automation and strive to improve our systems with changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Experience with Enterprise Cloud transformation and migration efforts.
• Actively participate and help guide customers on using Cloud-native design and architecture patterns.
• Provide Consultation on Technology infrastructure planning and engineering for assigned systems; Assesses the implications of technology strategies on infrastructure capabilities.
• Establish strategies to migrate Legacy applications by conversion to multiple Microservices and hosting on AWS Cloud platform.
• Leverage Cloud-native architecture components including Containers, immutable infrastructure, Microservices, Service Mesh etc., to build highly available and Fault tolerant applications.
• Conduct research on the global technology trends and their applicability to FEPOC products in support of our internal development teams and business initiatives.
• Promotes and ensures Modern application design, applies engineering best practices in the development and operations life cycle and mitigates vulnerabilities.
• Monitors and manages the Stability, Availability, and Performance of enterprise systems and platforms across IT domains.
• (e.g., Systems, Network, Storage, Security) by analyzing systems to identify problems, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
• Automate end to end process to maintain (patches and upgrades) of our AWS Cloud ecosystem.
• Makes data-driven recommendations and decisions and continuously improves the overall efficacy and efficiency of our software delivery capabilities.
• Mentoring peers as well as engaging with others across teams and socializing solutions.

 
Requirements:

• Strong skills are desired in each of the following areas:
• Development: Experience programming with one or more languages: Python, Java, Groovy, Go, etc.
• IAC Tools for Platform Automation: Strong skills and experience in at least one: Ansible, and Terraform, AWS Cloud formation, CDK.
• Containers: Docker or other OCI-certified containers- is a Plus
• Container Orchestration Platform: Experience with Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS ECS is a plus.
• CNI Plugins: Calico, Flannel, Weave Net etc.
• Service Mesh: Istio, AWS App Mesh, OpenShift Service Mesh etc.
• Container Security Tools: Twistlock, Sysdig, Aqua etc. is a plus,
• Platform Monitoring, Observability, & Performance Tools: Nginx, New Relic, AppDynamics, Data Dog, Thanos, Jaeger, LogDNA, etc.
• DevOps Tools: Git/Repo, Crucible, Bitbucket, Jira, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Bamboo, Maven, Artifactory, Nexus etc.
• Other required skills:
• Understanding of Cloud Native Architecture
• Linux, Shell scripting, and general admin skills
• Network, Security, Plugins, & Storage Skills
• AWS skills: EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, IAM, VPC, Lambda etc.
• Cloud and DevOps certifications, e.g., AWS
• Knowledge, skills, and abilities (ksas):
• Knowledge of programming languages and web-based technologies.
• Ability to collaborate to solve technical problems across teams.
• Expert -Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Expert - The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes them ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs.
• Must be able to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads that can be variable for long periods of time.
• Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence.
• Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.
• Licenses/certifications:
• AWS Cloud certifications, minimum of One is required.
• FinOps Certification is a Plus.

 
Why Should You Apply?

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities