AWS Engineer

Voted one of Chicago's Best Places to Work by the Chicago Tribune for the eighth year in a row, Clarity Partners is hiring!

Clarity Partners is seeking an AWS Engineer local to Chicago, IL. This position will support system engineering tasks, schedule and perform hardware/software installations, patches and upgrades, and maintain all tasks in accordance with established policies and procedures.

Responsibilities:

• Assists in defining, provisioning and managing Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environments.
• Reply to customer tickets within 20-35 minutes based on SLA.
• Resolve high-priority alerts within 45 minutes, collaborating with the team as needed.
• Installs, configures, maintains, and monitors operating systems and infrastructure services.
• Provides design and implementation expertise for software and application migrations into cloud environments.
• Responsible for developing and deploying AWS Lambda using Python and other programming languages.
• Strong understanding of whole solution architecture concepts and effectively communicates designs with customer architects.
• Responsible for the end-to-end architecture of a Delivery, including its assembly and integration into the IT architecture principles defined with the client.
• Responsible for the management and mitigation of technical risks. Ensure the delivery of underlying technology components.
• Proactively maintains and develops all AWS infrastructure technology to support a 24x7x365 uptime service.
• Performs delivery support functions utilizing AWS cloud-native tools.
• Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, hotfixes on EC2 instances.
• Approve vendor-level escalations and assist the client with incident resolutions and closure.
• Develop and implement solutions to automate manual tasks, enhancing operational efficiency and reducing the risk of errors across various workflows.

Requirements:

• 3+ years hands on Amazon Web Services (AWS) experience highly preferred; including software installation, configuration, patching, and proficient documentation skills.
• Experience managing full application stacks from OS up through custom applications.
• General networking knowledge, VLANs, routing, and firewall concepts.
• Knowledge of Languages & Scripting frameworks leveraged for Cloud automation & integration.
• Ability to define processes, SOPs, and identifies effectiveness and efficiency improvements.
• Knowledge of system monitoring in a cloud environment including cloud specific products and tools.
• Strong understanding & delivery experience of AWS cloud-native architectures.
• Familiarity with data center concepts and best practices, high - availability systems, capacity planning, system performance evaluation, and diagnostic techniques and methodologies.
• Familiarity with automation scripts (Shell / Bash / Python / PowerShell) and batch files to automate system and application administration on the Cloud.
• Experience with on-premise to cloud migrations or IT transformations and working with Containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.).
• Strong understanding of cloud security requirements, tools, and best practices.
• Experience with Windows Server Administration, Windows Group Policy Editor Experience, MS365 Administrations, MS365 SharePoint Administration, Azure, or Entra ID would be a plus.