What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform/Cloud Automation Engineer-Hybrid/Reston VA.-Local candidate only position at Elite Technical?
Job Details
Third parties-No phone calls please !
Candidates must reside in Virginia, West Virginia, or Maryland.
Our direct client is seeking a Platform/Cloud Automation Engineer for a long-term hybrid engagement.
Location: Primarily remote, but meetings do occur at least 1-2x per month. Could be weekly during a larger project. Must be A/OKAY with coming in as needed and must be drivable distance (no expense reimbursement)
Minimum of 10 years of AWS experience, of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Automation and Administration.
Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to VPC, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS etc.
Must be well versed in writing Terraform plans, Ansible playbooks
Development Background: Experience programming with one or more languages: Python, Java, Groovy, Go, etc.
Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production level experience 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.
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.
Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices for building scalable, resilient, and secure cloud environments.
Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
Experience in writing Lambda functions preferably in Python (Boto3).
Hands-on experience with Containers, Amazon EKS, or ECS is a big plus.
Previous Linux System administration / Linux Bash scripts support is highly preferred.
Big Plus: DevOps toolchains, including Git/repo, Crucible, Jenkins etc.Solid understanding and experience with a CI/CD tool chain.
Apply today for immediate consideration. I look forward to hearing from you .
