AWS cloud platform engineer

Onsite in Mclean, VA

Interviews are onsite


JOB DESCRIPTION


Are you an expert AWS cloud platform engineer with passion for automation and well-versed with Site Reliability Engineering? You would be joining a multi-functional team to collaborate on building the service platform to enable Freddie Mac applications team to host/migrate business applications. The candidate should be able to drive implementation and enhancement of tools and technologies for enterprise adoption in accordance with operational and security standards. Apply now and learn why there's #MoreAtFreddieMac!

Our Impact:
• Support operations by providing a resilient, highly available, and performing platform resulting in exceeding established metrics, customer requirements and financial objectives
• Partner with Product and Business team members to ensure high quality product is developed and released into production
• Work closely with Architecture, Customers, Operations, and Product to specify and document solutions and practices

Your Impact:
• Promote a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps culture to enhance and operate cloud platform offerings to the enterprise while working toward innovation, automation, and operational excellence
• Participate in design reviews of architecture patterns for service/application deployment in cloud (AWS)
• Collaborate with platform pillar leads in core platform, container orchestration, monitoring, and databases to build-out the platform
• Automate for efficiency and reliability and utilize CI/CD tooling as appropriate
• Participate in platform administration and Operations including troubleshooting of Complex issues within the Cloud environment
• Participate in On Call support as part of Operations Support
• Work with Product Owners to understand the desired capability, to define and prioritize work, determine deliverables, and manage workloads
• Deliver and maintain standard operating procedures and assist in troubleshooting issues
• Participate in on-call activities as needed for major incident resolution and problem management.

Qualifications
• 4+ years of overall information technology experience with a 2+ year emphasis on integration and delivery of public cloud
• 4 +years of experience with Kubernetes and Containerization Technologies (Kubernetes, AWS(ECS/EKS) etc) at scale is must
• 4 +years of experience with DevOps skills Jenkins, Helm, and Atlassian tools (Bitbucket, Artifactory, Jira and Confluence)
• 4 +years of experience with AWS core services like EC2, EKS, S3, Lambda, EMR, IAM cloud formation, Terraform, or similar tools
• Experience with Python, Ansible and shell scripting to automate routine operation tasks.
• Experience in ETL tools like Informatica IICS tools is good to have
• Ability to provide 24x7 operational support on periodic basis and triage complex issues to restore availability is must
• Proactive in nature with customer satisfaction as primary goal is must
• Keen focus on automation is must

DevOps (IAC, CFTs): Developing and deploying CFTs, Infrastructure as Code, serverless etc


AWS Cloud Native Development: Developing AWS serverless applications lambda, SNS, SQS, etc


AWS Serverless Development: Developing AWS serverless applications lambda, SNS, SQS, etc


Container and Kubernetes workloads (EKS): Creating ECS or EKS clusters or OCP, managing clusters (upgrades, patches etc)
• Documentation of Engineering Solutions and Designs
• Ability to communicate clearly, effectively, persuasively with technology and business partners
• Excellent collaborator and fantastic teammate
• Able to deliver and apply risk-based approach to prioritize work
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies, and identify process improvements and efficiencies opportunities
• Ability to adapt to change while continuing to deliver on assigned objectives
• Works under minimal supervision.
• Able to provide technical guidance to the team
• Strong written and oral communications skills