Cloud Engineer

The purpose of this position is to assist Client's IT Operations department accomplish the following objectives:

• Design, develop, document, test, and debug new configuration management (Terraform) infrastructure as code from scratch.
• Operationalize AWS and implement security mechanisms for AWS services.

Scope of Work, the position's Scope of Work include the following:

• Collaborate with internal teams to architect, engineer, configure and deploy AWS and other infrastructure technologies using approved organizational technologies.
• Work "hand in hand" with System Operations to develop self-service infrastructure provisioning, delivery pipelines, log, and monitoring services.
• Update system documentation as required.
• Collaborate with IT Operations Engineers in installing applications and servers including both physical and virtual types.
• Monitor, fix and improve infrastructure continuously.
• Operates monitoring, alerting, backups, antivirus, anti-spam, malware, etc. as well as offsite storage, and data mirroring.

• Terraform.
• General AWS Architecture.
• AWS regional Disaster Recovery.
• AWS S3.
• AWS EC2.
• AWS API Gateway.
• Amazon CloudWatch.
• AWS CloudTrail.
• AWS Trusted Advisor.
• AWS Command Line Interface.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree with a strong academic record.
• AWS Certification.

Qualification and Experience:

• Seven (7) to Ten (10) years of directly related experience.
• Three (3) to Five (5) years of operational and/or Qualification and Experience.
• Experience in systems administration and Engineering in a mature Enterprise environment.
• Extensive Terraform experience.
• Extensive AWS Cloud infrastructure environments including ECS, EC2, API, S3, Lambda and others.
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft and Linux server operating systems and networking.
• Extensive knowledge of back-office systems administration such as antivirus, backups, anti-spam, network monitoring tools, and networking equipment.
• Sophisticated understanding of ports, protocols, and routing and switching in a firewalled, wide-area network.
• Experience with Public Cloud infrastructure management.
• Bonus - Experience with Puppet.
• Bonus - Experience with OpenShift.
• Bonus - Experience with the Atlassian Suite of products.

Length of Experience:

• The minimum amount of total work-related experience required is five (5) years for the position. This means experience in a related area or time spent performing similar work that provides the background for the current position.

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.