Systems/DevOps Engineer

Description

• Design, deploy, and maintain AWS infrastructure using best practices ensuring performance, reliability, and security across all environments (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation, VPC, IAM, ECS, etc.).
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using tools like Cloudformation and Terraform to ensure consistent and reproducible deployments
• Automate routine tasks with scripting languages such as Powershell, Python, and Bash Shell

• Drive continuous improvement by automating processes, implementing new tools, and refining workflows to enhance operational efficiency.
• Design and implement automated build, test, and deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions or Code Deploy.
• Monitor pipeline execution and troubleshooting failures.
• Streamline software release processes and support ongoing application
  development and deployment

• Maintain and support Windows and Linux servers running various applications from IIS to VOIP stacks, to mail servers and databases
• Must have strong troubleshooting skills and history of supporting web servers, DNS, Network routing and switching, email servers and databases.
• Must be familiar with monitoring and logging configurations and leveraging logs to troubleshoot issues
• Should have experience with one or more scripting languages to automate routine tasks (powershell, bash shell, python, javascript)

• Implement logging, monitoring and alerting solutions to ensure system and application performance, availability and reliability using CloudWatch
• Enhance observability through advanced monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to ensure system health and facilitate rapid incident response.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize system performance, ensuring high availability and minimal downtime across our services

• Communicate technical issues and solutions effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with development teams to design, implement, and optimize highly available, scalable, and secure cloud solutions on AWS

• Implement and enforce cloud security best practices, including IAM roles, encryption, and security monitoring to ensure compliance and protect sensitive
  Data.

• Strong understanding of Windows system administration
• Expertise in Linux systems administration with deep knowledge of Unix
  fundamentals and command-line tools.
• Proficiency in managing and configuring AWS Cloud service
  At least 4+ years of hands-on experience managing cloud-based infrastructure
  on AWS, including key services such as EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, and
  ECS.
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles and best practices, including
  identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and vulnerability
  management.
• Extensive experience with DevOps tools (Github, CodeDeploy) for CI/CD ,
  automation, and configuration management (Terraform, CloudFormation,
  Ansible).
• Proficient in scripting languages (Python, Shell, or similar) to automate tasks and
  infrastructure management.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS, ECS) for containerization and
  orchestration.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Cloudwatch, Grafana) and Familiarity with performance tuning to ensure optimal system health.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases (e.g., MySql, AWS Aurora,
  DynamoDB, RDS,, MS SQL).
• Knowledge of disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) architectures
• Oversee deployment, patching, and lifecycle management of business-critical applications and Operating systems across the organization.
• Monitor system performance, diagnose issues, and proactively implement improvements.
• Develop and maintain detailed documentation of system configurations, procedures, and network diagrams.
• Ensure system and data security through best practices, including access controls, encryption, backups, and disaster recovery planning.
• Maintain, configure, and troubleshoot Windows &  Linux systems in production and development environments.
• Design, implement, and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools, primarily Terraform.
• Participate in capacity planning, disaster recovery, and business continuity initiatives.
• Document procedures, configurations, and system architectures for internal knowledge sharing and auditing purposes.
• Proficiency with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, javascript and Powershell
• Experience working in cloud environments such as AWS.
• Familiarity with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and documentation abilities.