AWS/Cloud Engineer at St. Louis, MO

[Ram Naidu]

Role: Site Reliability Engineer (AWS/Cloud Engineer)
Length: 18 months
Location: St. Louis, MO 63146

NO OPT and CPT
Need Passport number for H1B’s

Responsibilities
·         Engage in and improve the software development life cycle – from inception and design, through development, deployment, operation and refinement
·         Influence and design infrastructure, architecture, standards and methods for large-scale systems
·         Support services prior to production via infrastructure design, software platform development, load testing, capacity planning and launch reviews
·         Maintain services during deployment and in production by measuring and monitoring key performance and service level indicators including availability, latency, and overall system health
·         Automate system scalability and continually work to improve system resiliency, performance and efficiency
·         Practice sustainable incident response as part of an on-call rotation and through blameless post-mortems
·         Re-mediate tasks within corrective action plan via sustainable, preventative, and automated measures whenever possible
·         Work with cloud operations team to resolve trouble tickets, developing and running scripts, and troubleshooting.
·         Create new tools and scripts designed for auto-remediation of incidents.
·         Design/Implementation of Big Data technologies, including Hadoop, MongoDB, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Zookeeper, Spark, ELK, etc

Minimum qualifications:
·         BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent practical experience
·         7 years of experience in software development and maintenance.
·         2+ years of experience developing and/or administering software in public cloud
·         Experience in monitoring infrastructure and application up time and availability to ensure functional and performance objectives.
·         Experience in languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, Bash, Go, Perl, JavaScript and/or node.js
·         Experience with Web service technologies, including REST, SOAP, JSON, XML
·         Experience with database (RDBMS, NoSQL) technologies is a plus.
·         Demonstrable cross-functional knowledge with systems, storage, networking, security and databases
·         System administration skills, including automation and orchestration of Linux/Windows using Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt Stack and/or containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
·         Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling and practices
·         Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

Preferred qualifications:
·         Expertise designing, analysing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
·         Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
·         Experience managing Infrastructure as code via tools such as Terra form or Cloud-formation
·         A passion for automation with a desire to eliminate toil whenever possible
·         Experience building software or maintaining systems in a highly secure, regulated or compliant industry
·         Experience and passion for working within a DevOps culture and as part of a team

Thanks.,
Rama Krishna Mettapalli
rmett...@myasap.com