Lead AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Lumen Solutions Group Inc., a dynamic small and minority-owned, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise headquartered in Florida, USA, is seeking an experienced and dynamic AWS Cloud Platform Engineer. This role involves providing hands-on technical expertise for supporting our AWS footprint, including Security and Guardrails. As an AWS Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and integrating our cloud platform resources on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You will collaborate with a team of talented cloud engineers and technology teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure cloud solutions that support our company's growth and innovation.

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. 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.

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. 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. Strong skills are desired in each of the following areas: 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, ArgoCD, Bamboo, Maven, Artifactory, Nexus etc. Other Required Skills: 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 etc. Cloud and DevOps certifications, e.g., AWS Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) Knowledge of programming languages and web-based technologies. Ability to collaborate to solve technical problems across teams. Expert -Excellent communication skills both written and verbal. Must be able to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads that can be variable for long periods of time. Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence. Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging. Licenses/Certifications AWS Cloud certifications, minimum of One is required. FinOps Certification is a Plus. Lumen Solutions Group Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.