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Insight Global Sr AWS Cloud Engineer in Rockville, Maryland
Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION
As a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer, you will work closely with 13 other innovative and savvy people to engineers and expand a large AWS enterprise with new tools and technologies and collaborate regularly with product owners to deploy custom business and scientific applications. You'll help streamline our operations and processes, and further the adoption of DevOps best practices. A focus on innovation and automating best practices is a plus.
To be successful in this role, you will like being a part of a team and be capable of teaching others and explaining the "why" behind complicated technical decisions. In this role, a typical day will include the following:
* Collaborating with product owners (researchers and software developers) to identify and design topologies for custom business and scientific applications in AWS as part of our container PaaS, or as a custom solution.
* Providing guidance for adhering to best practices for optimal and secure use of cloud technologies.
* Assisting development teams in migrating their products from on-prem infrastructure to AWS, which often requires refactoring application architecture and breaking down monolithic applications into micro-service architecture or serverless workloads.
* Training product teams in technologies and frameworks to assist them in setting up the environment, build and deploy applications, and automate operational needs.
* Working with other Cloud Solutions Engineers or independently to develop prototypes and enhance or expand fundamental capabilities offered in the PaaS, such as CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and containerized or serverless workloads.
* Participating in a daily stand-up meeting to report your accomplishments, plans for the day, and any roadblocks you encountered. Your team will do the same, giving you an opportunity to understand and contribute to other ongoing initiatives.
* Occasionally present to your team or our software developer colleagues, on DevOps best practices, new and interesting cloud technologies, and ways you approached and solved challenging technical issues during our Tech Talks webinar series.
*Based on experience and relevant qualifications, the pay range for this role is 60-74 per hour
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com .
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Skills and Requirements
Required Qualifications:
* BA/BS or equivalent and 8+ years related experience
* 5+ years experience with AWS, to include knowledge of commonly used AWS services, such as IAM, VPC, S3, EC2, CloudWatch and CloudTrail, Route 53, RDS, SSM and Lambda. Experience with AWS Organizations, Guard Duty, Elasticsearch and Kinesis is a plus.
* Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code frameworks such as Terraform or CloudFormation to include writing templates and modules from scratch
* Experience with implementing and managing CI/CD workflows using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, GoCD or similar tools.
* Experience using and managing Linux distributions, including RedHat, Centos, Debian, Ubuntu, or CoreOS/Flatcar.
* Experience analyzing solutions components, understanding systems integration challenges, and identifying technology gaps in current components that must be resolved to reach future performance targets and functionality requirements in cloud infrastructure.
* Ability to get and maintain a Public Trust security clearance level Preferred Qualifications:
* Excellent communication skills and ability to self-manage projects and tasks
* Knowledge of Docker and hands-on experience in containerizing software applications; experience working with container orchestration and deployment platforms, such as Kubernetes, AWS EKS or AWS ECS.
* Ability to clearly present ideas to both technical and non-technical users and staff to further the adoption of DevOps.
* Strong Network experience with Routing, Firewalls, and hybrid networks
* Strong experience and understanding of Storage and Backup technologies
* Experience consulting scientists, researchers, and developers on how to design, migrate, and optimize their solutions on AWS services. null
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion,sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military oruniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, andordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com.