Lead Systems Engineer
Ageatia Global Solutions
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.
- 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.
- 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
- AWS Cloud certifications, minimum of One is required.
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