Application Systems Analysis/Programming Mgr AWS Cloud

Job Title: Application Systems Analysis/Programming Mgr AWS Cloud Location: Hamilton, NJ (Hybrid 3 days in and 2 days remote) Duration: 06 months with possibility of extension

This is a development position for an AWS Engineer

This position is a long term role that is expected to extend well beyond the dates listed in this requisition.

All candidates are to work onsite 3 days per week and interviews process for this role will be in-person ONLY and intensive and have heavy technical interviews in all required skill areas.

Please do not submit junior candidates or ones that may not pass the screening.

Responsibilities:

• Background and experience providing DevOps support to Cloud deployed Applications
• Strong experience in production support, for the applications in production or to be deployed into production
• A deep understanding and familiarity with: Linux, and Web/Application servers - Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, etc.
• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production system
• Monitoring and logging systems CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Elasticsearch
• Networking knowledge - Firewalls, VPNs, proxies & Load balancers
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems.
• Experience with Python, shell or other scripting language
• Manages and maintains the hardware,software, security, and connectivity to the Internet as well as middleware components
• Good understanding on User management, both for Windows and Linux machines. Integration with AD group on-prem, SSO would be good to have
• Software Development Fundamentals, Problem Solving, Documentation Skills, Verbal Communication, Application Maintenance, Application and System Security,
• Promotes Team Building and Process Improvement, System Administration.
• Troubleshoots and resolves system service failures by identifying and analyzing the situation and provides corrective actions.
• Monitors systems activities and fine tunes system parameters and configuration to optimize performance and ensure security of systems.
• Monitor daily systems, evaluate the availability of all server resources and carry out all Linux server tasks
• Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions.
• Fault finding, analysis and of logging information for reporting of performance exceptions
• Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning
• Integrate automated testing frameworks into the CI/CD pipelines to ensure code quality and reliability.
• Implement blue-green deployments, canary releases, and other deployment strategies to minimize downtime and risk
• Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, hot fixes on servers, workstations, and network hardware
• Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks
• Thorough understanding of protocols such as DNS, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP, and SNMP
• Create and maintain documentation related to system configurations and procedures
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS platform.

Skill Matrix:
Skill Required / Desired Amount of Experience Background and experience providing DevOps support to Cloud deployed Applications Required 5 Years Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production system Required 5 Years Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems and the RDS DB Required 5 Years Experience with Python, shell or other scripting language for Batch processing and the Data processing Required 5 Years Troubleshoots and resolves system service failures by identifying and analyzing the situation and provides corrective actions for api deployments Required 3 Years Integrate automated testing frameworks into the CI/CD pipelines to ensure code quality and reliability. Required 3 Years Implement blue-green deployments, canary releases, and other deployment strategies to minimize downtime and risk Required 5 Years