AWS Cloud Automation Engineer

6 days ago

Reston, Virginia, United States CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Full time
Job Description:

Job Title: AWS Cloud Automation Engineer

Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Automation Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will design, implement, and integrate cloud platform resources on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Key Responsibilities:

  • Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies to the team.
  • Engage in and improve the end-to-end lifecycle of services, starting from inception and 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 with customers.
  • Willingness to learn new AWS services and other technologies as required.
  • Systems scalability and sustainability leveraging automation and strive to improve 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; assess 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 global technology trends and their applicability to CareFirst products in support of our internal development teams and business initiatives.
  • Promote and ensure modern application design, applies engineering best practices in the development and operations lifecycle, and mitigates vulnerabilities.
  • Monitor and manage the stability, availability, and performance of enterprise systems and platforms across IT domains.
  • Automate end-to-end processes 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.
  • Mentor peers as well as engage with others across teams and socialize solutions.
  • Install, tune, upgrade, troubleshoot, and maintain all computer systems relevant to the supported applications, including all necessary tasks to perform operating system administration, user account management, disaster recovery strategy, and networking configuration.
  • Develop and implement techniques to prevent system problems, troubleshoot incidents to recover services, and support the root cause analysis.
  • Evaluate new systems by performing in-depth tests, including end-user reviews. Research software and related products to support recommendations and purchasing. Determine systems integration issues by evaluating components; developing and completing performance tests; analyzing test data; studying project requirements; analyzing user and potential user input; evaluating similar and related products and systems. Develop system automation and system integration of business processes.
  • Improve engineering job knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
  • Act as a mentor for junior and senior team members.

Requirements:

  • 8 years of proven success overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software systems and applications.
  • Strongly preferred qualifications:
    • Minimum of 10 years of IT experience, with at least 5 years in AWS cloud automation and administration.
    • Previous Linux system administration experience is required.
    • Must have strong hands-on knowledge of the AWS platform and services, including VPC, subnets, NACLs, security groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS, etc.
    • Must have hands-on current implementation and production-level experience with 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 well-versed in writing Terraform plans, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.
    • Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and CDK is required.
    • Current and actual production-level experience with Terraform and Ansible is required.
    • Other experience with different automation tools and languages instead of Python to code infrastructure for automation is acceptable.
    • 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 containers, Amazon EKS, or ECS 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity: CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

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