Virtual
AWS DevOps Engineer
Virtual, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States, 20815
Vaco has partnered with a client in the banking world to fill a key role as an AWS DevOps Engineer. In this role, you will play a key role on a small team that is responsible for overseeing, managing, and working to expand the Bank’s AWS environment to meet the needs of our technology-forward bank. You will be a critical team member with the opportunity to accelerate the Bank’s existing momentum on AWS and build out the online/mobile banking capabilities. You would possess exceptional project management and execution skills, strong oral and written communication capabilities, is highly organized, self-driven, and has the desire and ability to succeed in a fast-paced, collegial, small-team setting. This is an urgent need, and we are looking to start interviews immediately with our client. If you are interested in learning more please reach out to the Vaco team today.
Position Responsibilities
Support the strategic direction and the design of technology, infrastructure, software, and communications and networking systems, including the implementation and integration of external and internal business processing systems and applications
Hands on experience troubleshooting and maintaining EKS. We don’t need a person who wants to focus on architecting solutions although there will be some involvement in these activities within the team.
Experienced with AWS API Gateway. Troubleshooting and creating new endpoints. Experience with WAF is a plus!
Provide on-call support after-hours, weekend, and outside of general working hours for the Digital Bank operations; emphasis on MKS and EKS
Deploy, manage, and operate an AWS multi-account environment
Work alongside Systems and Development teams to support the transition and operation of applications in and out of AWS
Identify appropriate use of AWS operational best practices
Estimate AWS costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms
Proactively keep management up to date on AWS services and developments
Create (where appropriate) automation to streamline provisioning and de-provisioning processes
Be a technical resource on data/service migration projects
Assist contract and in-house staff on AWS administrative tasks
Configuration of the AWS cloud management; configure and fine-tune the cloud infrastructure systems; monitoring and managing cloud services carefully
Understand AWS metrics and monitoring resources
Assist in the creation and maintenance of high-quality documentation (primarily Visio diagrams) for relevant specifications, systems, policies, procedures, and plans as they pertain to IT
Integrate and work with third-party hardware, software, and service vendor relationships
Promote cybersecurity awareness, assist in training, testing, and the use of best practices
Ability to turn work around quickly and accurately.
Someone who is self-motivated, eager to learn and figure out issues.
Qualifications:
5+ years of Systems Administration experience with AWS required
Expertise managing security within an AWS master payer account environment and for Linux systems required. This includes implementing security groups and network ACLs, configuring Linux server security, and experience with AWS security services like AWS Shield, Detective, Security Hub, WAF, and especially IAM
Expertise building, deploying, and maintaining AWS microservices (MKS/Kafka) applications on Kubernetes using EKS
Experience in configuring, managing, and monitoring AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall), including AWS-managed and custom rules
High comfort level running command-line operations preferred
Experience building scripts, tooling, and automation for large-scale computing environments
Experience developing and maintaining network and systems diagrams and documentation
Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
Highly organized and efficient, able to work with all levels of staff in all bank areas
Detail-oriented, a team player with excellent time management skills
Must be able to adjust quickly to changing priorities and conditions
Proven ability to meet deadlines while thoroughly completing projects and assignments.
Experience with Database administration (SQL, MariaDB/MySQL, Amazon RDS, Aurora) is a plus
Experience deploying and maintaining AWS multi-account infrastructure (AWS Config, AWS CloudFormation StackSets)
Knowledge of monitoring and auditing systems in AWS (CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Cost Explorer, Systems Manager)
Familiar with AWS networking services (VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Route Tables, Subnets, Security Groups, Load Balancers)
Experience deploying and maintaining Infrastructure as Code with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) using YAML, JSON, CloudFormation, and CDK. Comparable experience with Terraform is also considered
Experience in developing, deploying, and managing AWS Lambda functions
3 years of system administration for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux/CentOS) required
Comfortable troubleshooting and writing Bash scripts or Python
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent, relevant experience required
Position Responsibilities
Support the strategic direction and the design of technology, infrastructure, software, and communications and networking systems, including the implementation and integration of external and internal business processing systems and applications
Hands on experience troubleshooting and maintaining EKS. We don’t need a person who wants to focus on architecting solutions although there will be some involvement in these activities within the team.
Experienced with AWS API Gateway. Troubleshooting and creating new endpoints. Experience with WAF is a plus!
Provide on-call support after-hours, weekend, and outside of general working hours for the Digital Bank operations; emphasis on MKS and EKS
Deploy, manage, and operate an AWS multi-account environment
Work alongside Systems and Development teams to support the transition and operation of applications in and out of AWS
Identify appropriate use of AWS operational best practices
Estimate AWS costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms
Proactively keep management up to date on AWS services and developments
Create (where appropriate) automation to streamline provisioning and de-provisioning processes
Be a technical resource on data/service migration projects
Assist contract and in-house staff on AWS administrative tasks
Configuration of the AWS cloud management; configure and fine-tune the cloud infrastructure systems; monitoring and managing cloud services carefully
Understand AWS metrics and monitoring resources
Assist in the creation and maintenance of high-quality documentation (primarily Visio diagrams) for relevant specifications, systems, policies, procedures, and plans as they pertain to IT
Integrate and work with third-party hardware, software, and service vendor relationships
Promote cybersecurity awareness, assist in training, testing, and the use of best practices
Ability to turn work around quickly and accurately.
Someone who is self-motivated, eager to learn and figure out issues.
Qualifications:
5+ years of Systems Administration experience with AWS required
Expertise managing security within an AWS master payer account environment and for Linux systems required. This includes implementing security groups and network ACLs, configuring Linux server security, and experience with AWS security services like AWS Shield, Detective, Security Hub, WAF, and especially IAM
Expertise building, deploying, and maintaining AWS microservices (MKS/Kafka) applications on Kubernetes using EKS
Experience in configuring, managing, and monitoring AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall), including AWS-managed and custom rules
High comfort level running command-line operations preferred
Experience building scripts, tooling, and automation for large-scale computing environments
Experience developing and maintaining network and systems diagrams and documentation
Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
Highly organized and efficient, able to work with all levels of staff in all bank areas
Detail-oriented, a team player with excellent time management skills
Must be able to adjust quickly to changing priorities and conditions
Proven ability to meet deadlines while thoroughly completing projects and assignments.
Experience with Database administration (SQL, MariaDB/MySQL, Amazon RDS, Aurora) is a plus
Experience deploying and maintaining AWS multi-account infrastructure (AWS Config, AWS CloudFormation StackSets)
Knowledge of monitoring and auditing systems in AWS (CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Cost Explorer, Systems Manager)
Familiar with AWS networking services (VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Route Tables, Subnets, Security Groups, Load Balancers)
Experience deploying and maintaining Infrastructure as Code with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) using YAML, JSON, CloudFormation, and CDK. Comparable experience with Terraform is also considered
Experience in developing, deploying, and managing AWS Lambda functions
3 years of system administration for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux/CentOS) required
Comfortable troubleshooting and writing Bash scripts or Python
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent, relevant experience required