Cloud Engineer (AWS)
Type: 6+ contract
Location: Chicago, IL
Contact: Ashley at ajones@forbestc.com.
Note: This position is remote for the foreseeable future.
Responsibilities: This AWS Engineer will be working alongside other engineers on a current AWS implementation. This will be moving legacy AWS infrastructure into brand new AWS org using infrastructure as code. This includes:
- Migrating operations of non-scalable and/or non highly available platforms to a high availability and scalable architecture (web applications, databases, storage, etc)
- Implementing process automations for application and platform operations and delivery
- Implementing optimized AWS architectures that account for cost, availability, and scalability needs
Experience Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree with 2+ years’ experience with AWS Foundational Services (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, etc.)
- 1+ years’ experience with Terraform is a must; as well as other Infrastructure as Code tools (CloudFormation, Packer)
- Experience implementing traditional VM, container (Docker, Kubernetes), and serverless based architectures
- Experience implementing CI/CD frameworks using common tools (AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy, TeamCity, Jenkins)
- 2+ years system engineering/administration experience on Linux would be helpful
- 1+ years’ experience with Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet) would be a plus
- Strong scripting experience on both Linux and Windows (Bash, Python, PowerShell) including use of the AWS SDK or CLI
- Strong understanding of enterprise, network, system and application-level architecture
- Experience utilizing common source control systems (Git, VSTS, SVN) and project structure/organization
Contact:
Ashley Falkenberg
Senior Recruiting Consultant
Forbes Technical Consulting LLC | 401 N. Franklin |Suite 3S | Chicago, IL 60654
E: ajones@forbestc.com
To apply for this job email your details to mnugent@forbestc.com