Lead Systems Engineer

Title: Lead Systems Engineer
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Reston,VA-20191(Hybrid) -Weekly once to office
Type:W2 only


Job Description:
Summary:

• Minimum of 10 years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Platform engineering and Administration.
• Strong Leadership experience with driving Transformation initiatives
• 3-5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering role
• Experience with SRE principles and transformation
• 3+ years of experience with Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure etc.), DevOps tool chain (Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc.)
• Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python.
• Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Dev, Architects, Engineers)
• Platform Engineering Lead with Hands -on Experience:
• Building robust Middleware Environments
• Previous Linux System administration is required.
• Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS etc.
• Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production level experience in AWS Cloud.
• Hands on experience with Automation and Infrastructure Provisioning is a must -Our goal is to only provision infrastructure with Code, and Policy As Code.
• Must be familiar with Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.
• Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and CDK is required.
• Must have hands on experience in writing Lambda functions preferably in Python (Boto3).
• Must be well versed in writing Linux Bash scripts.
• Minimum of One AWS certification is required.
• Hands-on experience with Containerization and Amazon EKS is a big plus.
• A great understanding of various DevOps toolchains, including Git/repo, Crucible, Jenkins etc.
• Solid understanding and experience with a CI/CD tool chain.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of overall experience in IT including hands-on Development and Systems engineering background.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field; master's degree preferred.
• [5-10] years of experience in cloud engineering and automation, with a focus on AWS cloud services.
• Minimum of 8-10 years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Automation and Administration.
• 3-5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering role
• 3+ years of experience with implementation of Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or Google, etc.), DevOps tool chain (Jenkins, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc.)
• Must be well versed in Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services and solutions, including but not limited to EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices for building scalable, resilient, and secure cloud environments.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Exposure to Artificial intelligence patterns and engineering of AWS solutions. Good knowledge of leveraging Amazon Kendra, Lambda, Bedrock, Rag models etc.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Minimum of 1 AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer is required.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment preferred.
• Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and serverless computing is a plus.
• full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python.
• Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Developers, Architects, and Engineers)

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Communicates Architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, while highlighting short-term trade-offs vs. long-term commitments and costs
• Engage in and improve the end-to-end Lifecycle of services, starting from Inception & design, deployment, and operations.
• Establish automation capabilities leveraging Cloud native solutions, to improve the Developer experience.
• Support activities, including System design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
• Willingness to roll up the sleeves and troubleshoot difficult issues and engage the Customer.
• Willingness to learn new AWS Services and other technologies as required.
• Systems Scalability and sustainability leveraging automation and strive to improve our systems with changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Experience with Enterprise Cloud transformation and migration efforts.
• Actively participate and help guide customers on using Cloud-native design and architecture patterns.
• Provide Consultation on Technology infrastructure planning and engineering for assigned systems; Assesses the implications of technology strategies on infrastructure capabilities.
• Establish strategies to migrate Legacy applications by conversion to multiple Microservices and hosting on AWS Cloud platform.
• Leverage Cloud-native architecture components including Containers, immutable infrastructure, Microservices, Service Mesh etc., to build highly available and Fault tolerant applications.
• Conduct research on the global technology trends and their applicability to FEPOC products in support of our internal development teams and business initiatives.
• Promotes and ensures Modern application design, applies engineering best practices in the development and operations life cycle and mitigates vulnerabilities.
• Monitors and manages the Stability, Availability, and Performance of enterprise systems and platforms across IT domains.
  • (e.g., Systems, Network, Storage, Security) by analyzing systems to identify problems, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
• Automate end to end process to maintain (patches and upgrades) of our AWS Cloud ecosystem.
• Makes data-driven recommendations and decisions and continuously improves the overall efficacy and efficiency of our software delivery capabilities.
• Mentoring peers as well as engaging with others across teams and socializing solutions.

Strong skills are desired in each of the following areas:

• Development: Experience programming with one or more languages: Python, Java, Groovy, Go, etc.
• IAC Tools for Platform Automation: Strong skills and experience in at least one: Ansible, and Terraform, AWS Cloud formation, CDK.
• Containers: Docker or other OCI-certified containers- is a Plus
• Container Orchestration Platform: Experience with Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS ECS is a plus.
• CNI Plugins: Calico, Flannel, Weave Net etc.
• Service Mesh: Istio, AWS App Mesh, OpenShift Service Mesh etc.
• Container Security Tools: Twistlock, Sysdig, Aqua etc. is a plus,
• Platform Monitoring, Observability, & Performance Tools: Nginx, New Relic, AppDynamics, Data Dog, Thanos, Jaeger, LogDNA, etc.
• DevOps Tools: Git/Repo, Crucible, Bitbucket, Jira, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, Circleci, Bamboo, Maven, Artifactory, Nexus etc.

Other Required Skills:

• Understanding of Cloud Native Architecture
• Linux, Shell scripting, and general admin skills
• Network, Security, Plugins, & Storage Skills
• AWS skills: EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, EKS, RedShift etc.
• Cloud and DevOps certifications, e.g., AWS

Licenses/Certifications

• AWS Cloud certifications, minimum of One is required.