Certified Cloud Engineer (AWS) with Azure, IAM, ALB/NLB, EBS, WAF, Stacksets,Route53, S3, SSM, SG, NACL, CloudFormation, Python, YAML, CloudWatch, CloudTrail Exp.
Location: Remote, must work EST or Central hours
Duration: 6-month contract w/ potential to extend.
GC, US Citizen preferred
H1B – is okay as well
Consultant LinkedIn profile should be created before 2018 || No Junk Profiles please.
Need 9-10+ yrs of IT Exp. Profiles || Need Passport number, I94, Travel History documents during submission for H1/GC/GC EAD
JOB DESCRIPTION
Our global Fortune 500 client, with U.S. headquarters in Charlotte, NC, is a world class food service provider with a strong presence across the nation. Celebrating almost 30 years in North America, this employee-focused company has received honors for diversity and inclusion, innovation, health and wellness, and company culture. Client has successfully placed over 220 employees within the last 7 years within this organization, known for its continuous growth opportunities, fantastic benefits package, innovative technology, flexible work environment, and collaborative culture.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Demonstrate an understanding of Team Goals, Strategies and Priorities.
- Demonstrate ability and willingness to share ideas with Associates, peers, and management.
- Embrace a coaching culture, provide feedback to Associates, peers, and management.
- Serve as a mentor to provide coaching and technical guidance to Associates.
- Demonstrate a positive attitude and set an example for colleagues.
- Attend regular manager and team lead status meetings and be engaged in meeting discussions and strategic planning.
- Demonstrate critical thinking skills to help lead efforts to diagnose and troubleshoot issues.
- Coordinate with the support service teams to identify common issues and develop appropriate documentation, training, and automation.
- Establish working partnerships with IT teams and external partners to coordinate problem resolution for operational issues and analyze root cause issues to address underlying infrastructure problems.
- Lead problem solving exercises by understanding the current state, conducting root problem analysis, solution identification, and then planning implementation and delivery activities.
- Develop “as is” and “to be” diagrams to visually represent challenges, risks, and opportunities for improvements.
- Create tickets for 100% of support requests.
- Acknowledge assigned tickets/issues in alignment with established SLAs but no longer than within 1 business day to communicate to users that the ticket has been assigned and identify the steps and timeline that will be taken to pursue resolution.
- Resolve most assigned tickets/issues within 3 business days.
- In the event a ticket/issue cannot be resolved within 3 business days, provide customer updates at least weekly to manage customer expectations and communicate the steps and timeline that will be taken to pursue resolution.
- Serve as an escalation point for Associates.
- Use sound judgement to determine the need to escalate issues/tickets to management awareness.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or combination of education and experience.
- AWS certification highly preferred
- Cloudformation
- EC2
- S3
- IAM
- VPC
- CICD
- SSM
- SG
- Cloudwatch
- EBS
- 3 years AWS experience
- 3-5 years’ experience developing infrastructure and platform pipelines for agile delivery to application teams.
- Experience with AWS, VPC, AZs, Subnets, Route53, ALB/NLB, WAF, Stacksets, Security Groups, NACLs, EC2, Systems Manager, Azure Devops, Ansible, Jenkins
- Strong knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems. RHEL 7.x-9.x, SUSE, and Windows Server 2016 and greater.
- Fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts (Routing protocols, DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP)
- Understanding of Monitoring tools like Splunk, CloudWatch and Zabbix
- Troubleshooting software and hardware issues including root cause analysis
- Strong developer mindset with experience developing in CloudFormation, Terraform, Python, YAML, JSON.
- Strong platform engineering background automating provisioning of resources in AWS.
- Experiences building infrastructure as code CICD pipelines using CloudFormation, Gold Images, configuration management automation.
- Engineering automated, repeatable platform solutions on AWS that allow easy to use self-service capabilities for application teams.
- Strong understanding of security constructs in AWS including LoadBalancers, WAF, SGs, NACLs, Patching, CloudTrail, Guard Duty, etc.
- Strong background building automated self-service capabilities in AWS.
- Strong communication skills
- Can-do attitude a must
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Positive attitude and solutions-oriented thinking.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to change.