AWS Infrastructure Engineer Work From Home

AWS Infrastructure Engineer – Work From Home

This AWS Infrastructure Engineer position is a 100% remote opportunity. Candidates located in the Chicago area are a plus.

The AWS Infrastructure Engineer will have a wide variety of responsibilities and skills that compliment a hosting environment designed with security and stability in mind. This role will be responsible for the implementation and maintenance of infrastructure within the data centers and public clouds. This is a hands-on position that requires complete transparency and trust.

Responsibilities:

• Highest level of Linux administration and engineering for internal and external infrastructure.
• Administration of Linux operating systems.
• Administration of LAMP/LEMP environments.
• Deploying mass system security updates with automation in mind.
• Consulting services related to Magento and cloud hosting solutions.
• Work directly with high stakes customers to ensure success.
• Monitor customer communication channels to meet SLA requirements.
• Participate in Slack and ticketing systems to support customers.
• Field escalated support requests by telephone, email, and ticketing system.
• Work within a project management system that focused on completing and documenting projects that are assigned outside of the escalated support queue.
• Troubleshooting of local and remote Linux operating system environments concentrating on a LAMP/LEMP stack.
• Operate and maintain infrastructure deployment systems using such as Cobbler, Ansible, etc.
• Support Linux multi-tenant, virtual, and dedicated platforms focusing on web hosting.
• Manage the provisioning and deployment of internal, multi-tenant, virtualized, and dedicated platforms.
• Investigate abuse and security vulnerabilities while creating and documenting policies related to Linux security.
• Utilize monitoring solutions such as Nagios, Icinga2, Cacti, Observium, and Cloudwatch.
• Assist the infrastructure team with predictive asset allocation with load testing.
• Build on current AWS infrastructure design and architecture to provide a high availability mission critical hosting platform.
• Management of customer migrations onto the company's network.
• Design and management of disaster recovery solutions.

Qualifications:

• 5 years in Linux system administration.
• 3 years in AWS hosting management.
• Must know how to build ansible, puppet or shell automation plays.
• Must have experience with DevOps.
• Deploying bare metal infrastructure using automated tools such as Cobbler and Ansible.
• Creating automation using bash or python.
• Engineering Linux based hosting solutions.
• Monitoring cloud and data center based infrastructure.
• Deploying automated Linux kernel and system updates.
• Troubleshooting Magento based ecommerce solutions.

Preferred Skills:

• Languages: Bash, Python, JavaScript, React
• Operating Systems: Linux, Unix, OSX
• Application Management: Apache, NGINX, HAProxy, Varnish, MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres, Virtuozzo, OpenVZ, Cacti, Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana (ELK), Docker, KVM, cPanel, Magento, WordPress, WooCommerce, Drupal, Cobbler, Ansible, Git, Bitbucket, Asterisk, FreePBX, Redis, Memcache, CloudFlare, NFS, Firewall, Iptables, SELinux, Samba, Kubernetes, Drone, Jenkins
• Infrastructure Management: Automation, Kickstart, Load Balancing, DNS, TCP/IP, SMTP, SNMP, DHCP, LVM, TFTP, Icinga2, Nagios, Observium, Cacti, New Relic, AWS, EC2, RDS, ELB/ALB, S3, EFS, Elasticache, Elasticsearch, Route53

Benefits include medical insurance, retirement plan, PTO, etc. Salary: 80K+ DOE.