Remote Job Opening- AWS/EKS PLATFORM ENGINEER- (Current Health Insurance Customer Experience) 14+- USC or GC or GC EAD

Job Description

Title: AWS/EKS Platform Engineer- 14+

Visas: USC/GC/GC-EAD

EST/ CST candidates

Work Mode: Remote + 1 or 2 Monthly Onsite in Reston, VA (No Expenses Paid)

Interview Mode: 2 videos

Must Have:

• Current Health Insurance Customer Experience
• AWS certification is required 
• 14-15 years of IT exp + 5 years must be in AWS Cloud
• EKS, AI, VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups

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.
o (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.

 

Required Skills

– Minimum of One AWS certification is required.
– Minimum of 10years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud. Seeking SME level knowledge in Provision using Automation via EKS. Extensive Knowledge in Provision Platform engineering and Administration is critical.
– AI experience is required
– Strong Leadership experience with driving Transformation initiatives
– Experience with SRE principles and transformation
– 3+ years of experience with Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure etc.), DevOps tool chain (Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc.)
– Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python.
– Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Dev, Architects, Engineers)
– Platform Engineering Lead with Hands -on Experience: Building robust Middleware Environments, previous Linux System administration is required.
– Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS etc.
– Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production level experience in 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 familiar with Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.
– Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and CDK is required.
– Must have hands on experience in writing Lambda functions preferably in Python (Boto3).
– Must be well versed in writing Linux Bash scripts.
– Hands-on experience with Containerization and Amazon EKS 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.

 

 

Kind Regards,

 

Deep Patel

Sr. Technical Recruiter

ZealHire Inc.

Email: Deep@zealhire.com

14 Wall Street 20th Floor | New York, NY 10005

www.zealhire.com