AWS Engineer

Senior AWS Engineer Location: Northern Colorado Type: Full-Time Direct Hire Description: Responsible for the design, development, implementation, operations, and support of highly available hybrid cloud environments. Provide stable infrastructure for applications and repeatable processes through automation of provisioning, deployment, and proactive monitoring activities. Key Job Elements Evaluate existing architectures, identify gaps, and propose courses of action to improve stability, availability, manageability, and costs; Create architectural guidelines and standards; Design, develop, and implement hybrid cloud environments; Design, implement, and execute Backup and Recovery and Business Continuity processes; Design, implement, and execute security standards; Monitor environments for security vulnerabilities and take actions to remediate and/or mitigate risks Perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis; Monitor applications and services within the environments, take actions to resolve issues and implement strategies to prevent future occurrences; Monitor AWS maintenance and outages, assess impact, and develop strategies to minimize impact; Create and follow up on AWS support tickets. Education / Training Bachelors Degree in computer or systems engineering related major or equivalent related work experience. Qualifications and Experience Required: 5-10 years of IT infrastructure development experience; Strong AWS experience especially in the following services (VPC, EC2, IAM, CloudFormation, S3, Route53, Security); Strong Linux experience; Strong networking experience; Strong networking and systems security background; Scripting experience especially in bash and python; Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes cluster deployments preferably within AWS; Experience deploying and managing DCOS cluster deployments preferably within AWS; Experience managing environments having deployments of Kafka, Storm, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, HTTPS services and applications; Strong background in Devops related practices such as CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and infrastructure as code; Experience with the following development and Devops related tools: Git, Jenkins, Bitbucket; Teamwork and communication skills. Highly Desired: Payments Experience