Cloud Operations Engineer

Cloud Operations SpecialistJob Location: Princeton, NJ 08540Job Duration: 12 + MonthsUS Citizen Only!Required: US Citizen Only! AWS Certification is a must (Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer)Description: Helping architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage AWS services, in both laaS/PaaS and SaaS, FaaS implementations. Advising and implementing cloud best practices based on AWS Well-Architected Framework. Proven experience with AWS platform and tools, such as EC2, Lambda, S3, Redshift, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, RDS, VPC, IAM and security, QuickSight, CloudTrail, Config, CloudWatch, SNS, AMI generation, Cost Optimization. Strong practical application experience in securing and deployment of serverless architecture applications, Linux and Windows-based platforms. Implementing DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deployment – CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus). Strong practical knowledge integrating development platform with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, including development of pipelines Hands on familiarity with CloudFormation and must have automate-first and automate everything thinking. Experience with configuration management/automation platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible). Strong scripting skills (e.g. Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc). Continuously improve processes, technologies, applications to provide best value to business. Experience in delivering and deploying highly scale, high performance Web Applications and experience in Blue/green deployments, A/B testing practices. Experience in delivering and deploying relational databases and NoSql databases. Exposure to Performance testing /tuning, monitoring, and troubleshooting tools. Practice and enforce Agile development methodologies. Experience in implementing SecDevOps best practices is an advantage.