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.

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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 - # WLPTJP

Location: Baltimore MD (100% REMOTE)

Duration: 12 Months + Strong Possibility of Extension

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• 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 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

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