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Saxon Global

AWS Engineer

Saxon Global, Manassas, Virginia, United States, 22110


This is a 12 month contract with Swift. Location-Manassas VA-ONSITE from day one and required to be in the office 1-2 days per week, NO EXCEPTIONS. All visa open. LI must and education must match the resume.

AWS Engineer:

Responsibilities

Define and implement secure, compliant, scalable versions of cloud resources (e.g. EC2, Kubernetes clusters, Databases, Load-balancers, Backup, etc.) that are exposed as internal products or network based services

Make cloud products available for self service via Infra-as-code using AWS CDK, Terraform and/or CloudFormation

Standardize and automate creation of application workload environments and DevOps tooling

Help app teams design secure and scalable infrastructure using approved cloud products, and support app DevOps teams from onboarding to Launch

Deploy and manage central services using DevOps and Infra-as-code

Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and central services

Technical skills & knowledge

Experience building and maintaining infrastructure using Infra-as-code tools such as AWS CDK, Terraform or CloudFormation

Experience building automation using programming languages such as Python, Java or Node.js

Working with Git/Bitbucket to manage code, and Jenkins or other CICD platforms to orchestrate

Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools

Collaborative work within a team as well as self-driven, in Agile environment

Desirable technical skills & knowledge

Deploying foundational AWS services (VPC, Subnet, Routes, EC2, Lambda, Step Functions, EKS, ELB, S3, EBS, RDS(Aurora), DynamoDB, CloudWatch, Cloudtrail etc) as IaC

Deploying and managing infrastructure AWS Infrastructure using Terraform or CloudFormation through CI/CD pipelines

Basic understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements

Troubleshooting AWS environments using CloudWatch and Elastic Search

Managing Immutable Infra setups with EC2 is a plus

Experience with AWS Landing Zone and underlying technology is a major advantage

Experience designing automation tools and leading small teams in implementation of infrastructure is a plus