Cloud Engineer - AWS

JOB TITLE:  Cloud Engineer - AWS

FLSA STATUS:  Exempt

DEPARTMENT:  Technology

REPORTS TO: Director, Cloud Services

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: No

JOB LOCATION:  Remote

TRAVEL:  None

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serve as a point of contact for all infrastructure supporting our enterprise applications
• Create and maintain i3's infrastructure as code portfolio
• Facilitate infrastructure migrations and changes within AWS using tools such as BitBucket, Azure DevOps, Terraform, and CloudFormation
• Engage and assist our security team to maintain a secure environment for our applications
• Create and maintain a portfolio of templates, scripts, and configurations for developers to use when building out new environments or applications
• Research and engineer new ways to monitor systems and applications for performance and availability
• Review network / application performance and deploy any necessary enhancements into relevant environments
• Execute quarterly security scans and work with security and development teams to resolve

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE):

• 5+ years experience managing and operating critical infrastructure in a cloud-based environment
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services (VPC, RDS, ECS, EC2, Glue, Athena)
• Practical experience with device and application monitoring tools (ex: Site24x7, New Relic, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, etc.)
• Strong experience creating and maintaining pipelines within CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, AWS CodeDeploy, or BitBucket
• Advanced knowledge creating and maintaining containerized applications
• Strong sense of ownership over your work
• Determination to follow issues to resolution both with and without guidance
• Strong experience with Python
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE):

• Experience migrating applications from dedicated environments to cloud-based providers
• AWS certification (Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, DevOps Engineer)
• Experience setting up and securely configuring web servers such as Apache, Nginx, and IIS