Sr. Infrastructure Engineer

Sr. Infrastructure Engineer/DevOps AWS EngineerRemote PST6+ month contractWhat You’ll Be DoingCreate and modify Jenkins pipelines to support CI/CD of Kubernetes microservicesWork with Software Development teams to write and tune their application Helm charts for EKSCreate new Terraform architecture and modules to provision AWS resourcesGuide application teams on best practices in the cloudSupport and enable teams to migrate from on-prem environments into AWSTroubleshoot issues with EKS, AMI, EC2, ASG, LBs, networking and Jenkins pipelinesWhat Your Background Looks Like4+ years and expert level experience and understanding of Kubernetes applications6+ years and expert level experience and understanding of Terraform8+ years and expert level experience and understanding of AWS servicesEKS, EC2, ASG, SG, ALB/NLB/WAF, Routing, Networking, Route53, EC2 Image Builder8+ years and expert level experience writing Jenkins files and Jenkins Shared LibrariesRequired Soft Skills & ExperienceExperience with leading application migrations into the cloud according to best practices, standards and cloud-native architecture.You are passionate about building and running distributed systems at scale in production. You understand the challenges and trade-offs to be made when building and deploying systems to production.Very strong written and verbal communication as you will be driving both requirements and implementationKnowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and high availability.Knowledge and experience about the differences between onprem and the cloud and how to help applications teams that don’t understand those differences.Highly skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, identifying anomalous system behavior, and determining the root cause of incidents.You've demonstrated the ability to effectively work collaboratively across functions and communicate between many different teams.Interest in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.Systematic problem-solving approach coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.