AWS DevOps Engineer Job

The Department of Homeland Security, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction ( CWMD ) contract supports IT Infrastructure planning and transformation in the areas of Cloud Engineering/Solutions Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, and/or IT Program Planning and Analysis .

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of automating virtual infrastructure deployment and configuration, and develop CI/CD best practices across the team.


• Contribute to best practices across the team, and be able to work in unsupervised fashion to complete tasks in an agile Kanban environment.


• Brief senior leadership and end users about the benefits of the solution, and the technology choices made.


• Maintain existing infrastructure and develop new virtual infrastructure for applications as they are onboarded.


• Lead the creation of CI/CD pipelines for applications, and script existing and new infrastructure using repeatable CloudFormation scripts.


• Assist in hybrid cloud deployments, and contribute to best practices across the team.


• Brief senior leadership and end users at varying levels of familiarity with cloud technologies, about the technology selections, best practices, and benefits of our approach.


• Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing AWS cloud-based production, pre-production and dev environments, to ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of environments.


• Build, release and configuration management of the above environments.


• Pre-production Acceptance Testing to help assure the quality of our products / services.


• Ensuring 24/7 system uptimes.


• Design, implement, and execute Backup and Recovery and Business Continuity processes;


• Design, implement, and execute security standards;


• System troubleshooting and problem solving across platform and application domains.


• Suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements.


• Evaluate new technology options and vendor products.


• Ensuring critical system security through the use of best in class cloud security solutions.


• Monitor AWS maintenance and outages, assess impact, and develop strategies to minimize impact;


• Create and follow up on AWS support tickets.


• Author CloudFormation scripts, and help maintain existing script repository


• Work independently in an agile Kanban environment to complete tasks, report status, identify blockers, and pro-actively resolve issues


• Set up, configure and maintain a Jenkins-based CI/CD pipeline


• Communicate clearly in written and verbal form with varying audiences of developers, BAs and other stakeholders


• Self-starter, with an ability to pick up new AWS and scripting technologies

Qualifications:

• US Citizen able to obtain a Dept of Homeland Security EOD badge.


• Bachelor's degree from an accredited school


• At least 2+ years' experience with using a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g. EC2,ECR, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, ELB, EFS, EBD, S3, VPC, SNS, SQS, SES, CloudWatch, Route 53) to develop and maintain a range of Amazon AWS based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.


• 2+ years' experience with AWS Infrastructure provisioning for fault tolerance and high availability


• 2+ years of experience with Hybrid Cloud


• Practical experience and deep understanding of:
  
  
  
  • Well Architected framework
  
  
  • CloudFormation (Infrastructure as code)
  
  
  • CI/CD stacks in AWS
  
  
  • Lambda used in conjunction with S3, CloudTrail and EC2
  
  
  • AWS CLI or Python/Ruby/C#/NodeJS AWS APIs
  
  
  • CloudWatch and CloudTrail
  
  
  
  


• Scripting AWS (AWS CLI, CloudFormation, and using the AWS APIs)


• Creating and maintaining a DevOps pipeline in AWS (tools like Jenkins, Chef, Ansible)


• VPCs, Subnets and designing for security


• Ability to present architecture to clients of varying levels, from Developers, Business Analysts and Senior Client Leadership


• Practical experience developing multi-tier enterprise applications in Java, C# or any other object-oriented language


• Core experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime Amazon AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.


• Monitoring Tools: Experience with machine-generated big data searching, monitoring and analysis using tools such as Splunk.


• Strong experience in the CI/CD pipeline using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, SonarQube, Maven, TwistLock etc. Special emphasis on integrating the tools to form the pipeline.


• Strong scripting (e.g. CloudFormation, TerraForm) and automation skills.


• Linux and Windows system administration.


• Understanding network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).


• Problem Solving: Ability to analyze and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues.


• Core experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime Amazon AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.


• Monitoring Tools: Experience with machine-generated big data searching, monitoring and analysis using tools such as Splunk.

EIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/M/F/V/Disabled.