AWS Cloud Engineer

Type: Contract-to-hire

Location: Buffalo, New York

Be a part of ETG Cloud organization which is responsible for architecting, implementing and managing the technology required to run a cloud-based platform for the enterprise. This position is a unique opportunity for someone who is passionate about applying cloud technologies to solving business problems in a unique and innovative way and to help accelerate our digital business transformation.

Position Responsibilities:

• CloudOps Engineer is responsible for 24/7 availability of ETG client’s Cloud Platform
• Front line support for Cloud Monitoring – Infrastructure and Application
• Respond, troubleshoot and resolve production alerts
• Initiate Incident Response for cloud outages
• Analyze trends to pro-actively prevent incidents
• Participate in Cloud Updates and Maintenance; assist in security vulnerability and remediation
• Take ownership of environment maintenance and system problems as detected by monitoring and/or as escalated by business users
• Ensure availability of all technical operating resources according to SLA expectations by designing for redundancy of infrastructure and associated services.
• Perform lifecycle management for supported platforms, including technical refresh planning and capacity upgrades and participate in the planning and implementation of software product updates.
• Establish metrics and monitor the health/utilization of AWS resources on a wide scale, using CloudWatch and other services or scripts.
• Report on cost and usage across cloud environments and establish tagging mechanisms for allocating costs to different business units.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5 years hands-on experience with Cloud Operations/DevOps/SRE on AWS, and, or Azure.
• 3 years’ experience specifically with AWS. Especially: VPC, ELB/ALB, EC2, S3, IAM.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent working knowledge on Linux or any Unix Operating System
• Knowledge in Monitoring Tools and Service Management (Support Tickets, Incident and Problem Management)
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking, including routing, subnetting and load balancing.

Must have skills

• AWS Cloud Experience (AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification)
• AWS Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail
• AWS: 4 years (Preferred)