Cloud Platform Engineer with Python, AWS & DevOps - Remote

Job Description

Seeking an experienced Platform Engineer who has expertise in design, development, and setting up highly available applications in Cloud. The ideal candidate will have a basic understanding of AWS cloud and its services, networking, security, and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools. Expertise in software development practices and scripting languages.

Objectives of this role

• Identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the application aligned to the Enterprise objectives
• Define best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards for code quality and thoughtful design

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement tooling and batch scripting to build and deploy region & environment independent application processing [PS, Shell, Python] in AWS Cloud and work with DevOps pipeline leveraging Infrastructure as Code
• Participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle, including planning, requirements, development, and quality assurance
• Configure monitoring, alerting, dashboarding for job & application
• Document runbooks/playbooks, procedure for failover/failback
• Vulnerability remediation for application & infrastructure components to align with Enterprise Guideline
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures
• Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving skills, with an ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity

Required Skills And Qualifications

• Three or more years of experience in designing, developing, and implementing application solutions on AWS platforms
• Understanding of and experience with the five pillars of the AWS well-architected framework
• Experience in several of the following areas: CI/CD pipelines, Oracle PL/SQL experience, SOAP & RESTful API Services, PowerShell, Python.
• Setup and Configuration of AWS Services like Security Groups, S3, EC2, ALB, Autoscaling, IAM roles, KMS, SNS, Lambda, Route 53
• Proven ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of application architect, developers, data engineers, and subject-matter experts
• Experience with SAFe Agile

Preferred Skills And Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in computer science, information technology, or mathematics
• Knowledge of web service technologies, test automation
• AWS certification and DevOps

Additional Information

• Required Skills:
• Platform Engineer experience
• Python & PowerShell scripting not necessarily writing new scripting, but refactoring existing scripts & migrating them to Redwood (new platform for job scheduling)
• AWS RDS, S3, EC2, Route 53, IAM/Security Groups need to be able to troubleshoot and dig in when something isn't working properly
• Credential Management Secret Manager in AWS, Key Vault in Azure, or something similar Python - scripts already existing - they just need to migrate it over, figure out what they need to do to replatform, new upgrades, patches, etc AWS: RDS, s3, ec2, route 53, ECS, IAM security groups - basic understanding of these services is not sufficient - they need to know these 5 - they need to know why the platform is not working. Long-term contract