aws Engineer

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
1. 10 years of working experience with different IT Infrastructure components such as Unix/ Linux Servers, Wintel Servers, AWS, networks, firewalls, routers, load balancers, VPN, Apache, web logic, LDAP, Active Directory, Exchange, Oracle/MS SQL databases, SAN, Virtualization, Email systems, Enterprise monitoring and access management solutions for single sign on. Subject matter expertise is not required and experience with at least eight of the above is preferred.
2. Senior level hands-on working experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
3. Understanding different layers of the AWS Infrastructure e.g. WAF, R53, CloudFront, Load Balancing, HA features.
4. Proven methodical approach to problem identification, monitoring, problem solving and resolution.
5. Ability to analyze different components of the infrastructure and application environments during Incident triage calls.
6. Ability to trace transaction failures and debug the root cause in various layers of the AWS infrastructure and services.
7. Aptitude to influence other technical teams on incident calls & articulate troubleshooting steps effectively.
8. Experience & confidence working with all levels of management; excellent written and verbal skills.
9. Able to quickly and concisely communicate with senior management on technical issues in non-technical terms and to run large conference calls during Incident calls with a wide range of personnel and management levels.
10. Strong relationship management skills and aptitude to multi-task and work well in a high stress environment, both within teams and independently.
11. AWS Solution Architect Associate or higher certification
12. Monitoring and observability experience.
13. Experience with monitoring dashboards for incident detection and alerting.
14. Perform end-to-end analysis of transactions under an observability environment.
15. Troubleshoot incidents and identify root cause quickly using wire data analytics, application performance management and event correlation monitoring tools.
16. Diagnose and resolve incidents by providing factual data from the various monitoring and instrumentation systems.
17. Monitor applications and infrastructure using tools like Splunk, DynaTrace, OpenTel, Catchpoint, xMatters, SignalFx, xMatters, SolarWinds, Extrahop etc.

Preferred Qualifications:
1. Management and troubleshooting of Middleware products on UNIX and Linux environments. Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Java etc.
2. Prior Fannie Mae or Financial industry experience.
3. Experience with OpenTel

Location: This is an onsite position at Reston, VA. Secondary location is Plano, TX

What we are seeking:
We are looking for candidates with expert level knowledge in AWS infrastructure and various AWS services. The key focus for this position is application triage, transaction tracing in various layers of AWS infrastructure, log analysis, diagnosis of issues using AWS Console and other monitoring tools, sharing analysis with wider audience during incident calls, strong communication. We are not looking for candidates with only development or deployment experience in AWS.

The candidate should write a paragraph about the hands-on triage work done on AWS Cloud and submit it along with the resume.

Potential Vetting Questions:
1. What kind of network performance parameters can you expect when you launch instances in cluster placement group?
2. Can a user attach multiple subnets to a routing table?
3. If a user uses Amazon CloudFront, is the user able to use direct hook up with transfer objects from his data center?
4. If a user launches a standby RDS instance, can or not it s within the same convenience Zone as the primary?
5. A corporation is deploying a two-tier internet application in AWS. The corporate has restricted workers and needs high handiness, and also the application needs advanced queries and table joins. What database configuration provides the answer?