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AWS Platform Engineer

ICONMA, LLC
  • Reston, VA
  • $82.12–$87.12 Per Hour
  • Quick Apply
30+ days ago

Job Description

Our Client, a Health Insurance company, is looking for an AWS Platform Engineer for their Reston, VA / Hybrid location.
 
Responsibilities:
  • Communicates Architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, while highlighting short-term trade-offs vs. long-term commitments and costs
  • Engage in and improve the end-to-end Lifecycle of services, starting from Inception & 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 the Customer.
  • Willingness to learn new AWS Services and other technologies as required.
  • Systems Scalability and sustainability leveraging automation and strive to improve our 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; Assesses 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 the global technology trends and their applicability to FEPOC products in support of our internal development teams and business initiatives.
  • Promotes and ensures Modern application design, applies engineering best practices in the development and operations life cycle and mitigates vulnerabilities.
  • Monitors and manages the Stability, Availability, and Performance of enterprise systems and platforms across IT domains.
  • (e.g., Systems, Network, Storage, Security) by analyzing systems to identify problems, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
  • Automate end to end process 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.
  • Mentoring peers as well as engaging with others across teams and socializing solutions.
 
Requirements:
  • Strong skills are desired in each of the following areas:
  • Development: Experience programming with one or more languages: Python, Java, Groovy, Go, etc.
  • IAC Tools for Platform Automation: Strong skills and experience in at least one: Ansible, and Terraform, AWS Cloud formation, CDK.
  • Containers: Docker or other OCI-certified containers- is a Plus
  • Container Orchestration Platform: Experience with Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS ECS is a plus.
  • CNI Plugins: Calico, Flannel, Weave Net etc.
  • Service Mesh: Istio, AWS App Mesh, OpenShift Service Mesh etc.
  • Container Security Tools: Twistlock, Sysdig, Aqua etc. is a plus,
  • Platform Monitoring, Observability, & Performance Tools: Nginx, New Relic, AppDynamics, Data Dog, Thanos, Jaeger, LogDNA, etc.
  • DevOps Tools: Git/Repo, Crucible, Bitbucket, Jira, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Bamboo, Maven, Artifactory, Nexus etc.
  • Other required skills:
  • Understanding of Cloud Native Architecture
  • Linux, Shell scripting, and general admin skills
  • Network, Security, Plugins, & Storage Skills
  • AWS skills: EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, IAM, VPC, Lambda etc.
  • Cloud and DevOps certifications, e.g., AWS
  • Knowledge, skills, and abilities (ksas):
  • Knowledge of programming languages and web-based technologies.
  • Ability to collaborate to solve technical problems across teams.
  • Expert -Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
  • Expert - The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes them ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs.
  • Must be able to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads that can be variable for long periods of time.
  • Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence.
  • Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.
  • Licenses/certifications:
  • AWS Cloud certifications, minimum of One is required.
  • FinOps Certification is a Plus.
 
Why Should You Apply?  
 

Numbers & Facts

LocationReston, VA
Salary$82.12–$87.12 Per Hour

Skills

  • AWS Lambdaunmatched
  • Administrative Skillsunmatched
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)unmatched
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)unmatched
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
  • Ansibleunmatched
  • Architectural Servicesunmatched
  • Automationunmatched
  • Best Practicesunmatched
  • Capacity Managementunmatched
  • Cloud Architectureunmatched
  • Cloud Computingunmatched
  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Computer Securityunmatched
  • Consultingunmatched
  • Continuous Improvementunmatched
  • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
  • DevOpsunmatched
  • Dockerunmatched
  • Ecosystemsunmatched
  • Go Programming Language (Golang)unmatched
  • Groovy Programming Languageunmatched
  • Health Insuranceunmatched
  • Health Planunmatched
  • Healthcareunmatched
  • Identify Issuesunmatched
  • Internet Technologyunmatched
  • Javaunmatched
  • Linux Operating Systemunmatched
  • Mentoringunmatched
  • Network Securityunmatched
  • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
  • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
  • Product Supportunmatched
  • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
  • Reliability Engineeringunmatched
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  • Security Analysisunmatched
  • Software Designunmatched
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  • Software Patchesunmatched
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  • Team Playerunmatched
  • Technical Strategyunmatched
  • Technology Analysisunmatched
  • Time Managementunmatched
  • Trend Analysisunmatched
  • Unix Shell Programmingunmatched
  • Web Client Plug-insunmatched
  • Web Programmingunmatched
  • Writing Skillsunmatched
  • nginx Web Serverunmatched

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