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Job Overview
Job ID:J318614
Job Title: AWS Engineer
Client: To Be Discussed Later
Location:New Orleans, Louisiana
Contract Duration:18 Months
Hourly Rate: $55/hr Corp-to-Corp Contract
Experience Level: 7+ Years
Interview Type: Phone + Skype
Domain Exposure: IT/Software
Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, H-1B, GC-EAD
Preferred Employment: Corp-To-Corp Contract, 1099/ Contract,Contract-To-Hire
Current Status: Open

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Job Description
Design, implement and deploy high availability solutions in the cloud environment. Plan and conduct technical tasks associated with the implementation and maintenance of cloud application infrastructure. The Cloud Solutions Engineer collaborates with technical leadership, system administrators, and business stakeholders to develop cloud solutions to meet operational goals for high availability, performance, stability, security, and cost efficiency.

• Education: 
Bachelor’s degree with major in Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Systems, or related.

• Experience: 
o 7+ years as a Linux System Administrator or similar
o 2+ years as systems design lead

• Technology and Software
o Amazon Web Services experienced required
o Linux Operating systems (CentOS or similar) required
Scripting language: Ruby, Perl, or Python
o Monitoring: Nagios, Zenoss, or similar
Configuration Management Systems: Salt, Chef, or similar
o Databases: PostgreSQL or similar
Your responsibility will be to design solutions and execute on approved plans for a secure, highly available, and efficient cloud environment.

• Upgrade the current environment to maximize auto-recovery and geographically distributed redundancy.
• Simplify architecture to expand use of Amazon Web Services provided applications.
• Improve system monitoring and alerting to improve incident time to resolution while decreasing false positives.
• Improve system logging and benchmarking in order to fine tune application infrastructure and gain better insight into system issues and performance.
• Work with engineering and application development teams to improve system performance through environment upgrades and improvements.
• Work to decrease hosting costs by using proactive and responsive auto-scaling algorithms and changes to technology solutions.


• Build the operational cloud environment for both production and non-production environments.
• Update systems to support new development and technology initiatives
• Incorporate new cloud technology improvements
• Participate in 24/7 on-call support rotation
• System Administration: This is a technical position that requires you to have advanced Linux System Administrator skills and fluency with Amazon Web Services and configuration management systems.
• Communication: Ability to communicate technical ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders is critical. Additionally, the ability to document support procedures will ensure that environments are properly maintained and supported.
• Leadership: Collaborative leadership is important to gather technical and business requirements and build plans that incorporate feedback. 
• Analytical: You will be required to project the impact of design decisions and weigh compromises in operational criteria to meet business objectives

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