DevOps Engineer-AWS

Position Title: DevOps Engineer-AWS Location(city and state): Remote Role (Candidate Must be physically present in USA) EXPERIENCE : Total Years of Experience : 9 -12 years Relevant Experience: 6 - 8 years JOB DESCRIPTION : HCL AWS Cloud Capability Delivery Unit is looking for experienced customer-focused AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer with technical depth and architecture skills. In this role, he/she will be responsible for managing and developing the AWS GovCloud platform. This includes working with the development team to deploy applications, managing and scaling the AWS infrastructure, and ensuring high availability of the platform. The engineer will also work closely with the operations team to troubleshoot and resolve issues with the platform. Specifically, you will be part of customer engaging team of technical PMs and engineers responsible for implementing new custom deployment pipelines and execute POCs and pilot migration projects with modernized approach. Position - DevOps Engineer- AWS Designation - Associate Consultant/Consultant ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES: Lead and understand customer's requirements for implementing automation in AWS GovCloud Collaborate with customer and other SMEs such as Security, Network and architect. Apply DevOps/Automation best practices Define long term cloud strategy and mentor operations teams to implement the solutions. Automate solutions for repeatable problems. Work with clients to transform manual processes and deployments into DevOps automated pipelines using AWS native services. Develop test plan and test cases to demonstrate application/database readiness post migration. Work closely with application teams to ensure business functionality and SLAs are met. Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems. Keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights and maintain technical skills and knowledge. Advocate new features and solutions to bring operational efficiency and cost reduction. Key focus on Infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation Work with development team to deploy applications to AWS Manage and scale AWS infrastructure Ensure high availability of AWS platform Troubleshoot and resolve issues with AWS platform and applications Identify, troubleshoot and implement solutions to performance, scaling and availability issues across the platform Work with security team to ensure compliance standards are met Assist in provisioning AWS resources MANDATORY SKILLS: Creation of Service Catalog items for in-scope AWS services Bachelor's degree in Information Science / Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, MCA, or a related field. Subject matter level expertise on AWS DevOps, AWS CloudFormation. AWS Compute (EC2) & Storage, Backup & DR, Monitoring Experience in any one programming languages like Python, Node.js etc. Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g., shell, PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation etc) CloudFormation deep expertise (cfn hup, cfn init, custom resources, stack sets etc.) Strong hands-on experience on CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Team city etc. Configuration management using Ansible and/or Chef/Puppet. Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations. Implementing experience with primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, ECS, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, Route53 & S3) Experience in Kubernetes and Docker administration (EKS and ECS). Good architectural knowledge to design, build AWS Cloud Native solutions and integrating 3rd party tools required for customer delivery/ Cloud estate. Experience in working with AWS CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly. Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively. Resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. GOOD TO HAVE : AWS Certified DevOps Professional Knowledge of NIST SP 800-53, SP 800-171 HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate Certified Kubernetes Administrator AWS Certified DevOps Professional AWS Certified developer/Architect/Sysops associate. AWS Specialty Certification - Networking or Security (Either 1 will do) - Preferred