Lead AWS DevOps Engineer

Our client, a US Fortune 50 organization and a leading provider of Health care and Health Insurance services, seeks an accomplished Lead AWS DevOps Engineer. Below, you will find a complete breakdown of everything required of potential candidates, as well as how to apply Good luck. ______________________________________________________________________ NOTE: THIS IS REMOTE ROLE & ONLY W2 CANDIDATES (NO C2C/1099). *** Candidate must be authorized to work in USA without requiring sponsorship *** Position: Lead AWS DevOps Engineer (Job Id - # WLPTJP00046135) Location: Baltimore MD (100% REMOTE) Duration: 12 Months + Strong Possibility of Extension ________________________________________________________________________ Passionate about the concept of infrastructure as code and leverages modern tools to define, build and manage virtual infrastructure in the cloud. Excellent hands-on experience with AWS. Solid understanding of Windows systems (2019+) and Linux Systems (CentOS, RedHat, Amazon Linux), hosts, networks, security, applications, and proficiency in shell scripting. Solid understanding and proven experience with configuration management tools like Ansible and Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes. Believes in automation for consistent, scalable and fool-proof delivery of infrastructure and applications. Support production issues/high severity issues on weekends or off hours as required. Required Qualifications: Senior or Lead level experience with at least 8+ years of experience in all the required skills. Experience in working as DevOps leader focusing on CI/CD and CM tools and modern frameworks in the eco-system. Solid hands-on experience with working on AWS Experience deploying to Kubernetes Experience with serverless resources such as lambda, api-gateway, cloudfront Solid expertise troubleshooting and managing Linux systems. Creating manifests and troubleshooting pods · Familiarity with Helm · Understanding of RBAC for k8s/ECS clusters Hands-on experience in using Ansible or python. 8 or more years of experience with orchestration tools such as terraform. Someone with experience with tools such as Jenkins to enable CI/CD. 4 or more years of experience working with agile tools like Jira, Git, and Confluence. Must have an AWS certification Candidates with proven certifications and socially accessible profiles that demonstrate the body of work and participation in modern collaboration hubs. A great team player and genuinely believes in solving challenges as a team. Willing to learn new technologies and methodologies quickly. Explores alternatives and quickly prototyping to validate hypothetical architectures or solutions Good understanding of the core tenets of agile both in letter and spirit Preferred Qualifications: Demonstrated ability come up with System designs, architecture, process flows and Concept of Operations for large complex systems · Please provide any code in Github or such that you have worked on personally or in the open-source community. Be able to demonstrate proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible, during the interview process. Kubernetes: Service MeshGitops Securing clusters Creating Helm Charts _______________________________________________________ If you're looking for rewarding employment and a company that puts its employees first, we'd like to work with you. We're driven, people driven Bhupesh Khurana Senior Technical Recruiter Email: bkhurana@ameritconsulting.com Amerit Consulting is an extremely fast-growing staffing and consulting firm. Amerit Consulting was founded in 2002 to provide consulting, temporary staffing, direct hire, and payrolling services to Fortune 500 companies nationally; as well as small to mid-sized organizations on a local & regional level. Currently, Amerit has over 2,000 employees in 47 states. We develop and implement solutions that help our clients operate more efficiently, deliver greater customer satisfaction, and see a positive impact on their bottom line. We create value by bringing together the right people to achieve results. Our clients and employees say they choose to work with Amerit because of how we work with them - with service that exceeds their expectations and a personal commitment to their success. Our deep expertise in human capital management has fueled our expansion into direct hire placements, temporary staffing, contract placements, and additional staffing and consulting services that propel our clients’ businesses forward. Amerit Consulting provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.