Overview
Operating within the core values and operating principles of the organization, As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure at AAA Life Insurance Company, you will design and build business-critical infrastructure. You will take advantage of the global scale, elasticity, automation and high-availability features of the AWS platform. You will build solutions with EC2, VPC, Terraform, ECS, EKS, CloudWatch, Service Catalog, Control Tower and other AWS services. You will work across a range of areas including Web applications, Enterprise application and Data and Analytics.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy and monitor infrastructure in public clouds (AWS, Azure) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Understanding of Infrastructure as a Service, Infrastructure as Code and related concepts on public cloud.
- Experience in the management and development of Terraform deploying infrastructure and applications to AWS and Azure.
- Designing, orchestrating, implementing, and supporting secure and scalable infrastructure using IaaS, PaaS, and on-premise platforms.
- Designing and supporting core AWS platform architectures, including:
- Organizations, Account Design, VPC, Subnet, segmentation strategies
- Backup and Disaster Recovery approach and design
- Environment and application automation
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) automation approach/strategy
- Network connectivity, Direct Connect and VPN
- AWS Cost Management and Optimization
- Assist in Creation and management of gold images / AMI’s
- Create IAM users and groups using Terraform
- Maintain availability of critical AWS Cloud infrastructure. To include configuration changes to AWS Cloud Services and shared services,
- Propose, develop and support automation solutions for source code deployment and configuration management.
- Managing cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines
- Deploying and debugging cloud initiatives as needed in accordance with best practices throughout the development lifecycle.
- Educating teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training as required.
- Configure multi-factor authentication on virtual and hardware devices
- Follows company Change Management processes for the implementation of changes in the Production network environment.
- Resolves Help Desk tickets related to areas of assigned responsibility. Uses advanced problem analysis skills to isolate and identify user problems, including issues escalated from other team members.
- Willingness to work overtime, weekends and irregular hours.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent work experience
- Ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of experience in systems engineering/infrastructure development, and at least 5 years of experience with cloud platforms.
- Certification(s) in administering and/or architecting cloud-based technologies is preferred e.g. AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
- Solid experience with the following technologies preferred: IAM administration; EC2; S3; EBS; ELB; SES; Route 53; Lambda; AWS regions and Multi-AZ Deployments; Systems Manager; CloudWatch; Terraform; VPC Peering and VPN’s
- Deep expertise/experience with Terraform and related orchestration/infrastructure-as-code services.
- Knowledge of the following will help you stand out:
- Experience with automation, orchestration, and configuration management tools
- Understanding of networking (subnetting, routing, VPC / VNet, security groups, load balancing, etc.)
5-10 Years Cloud Services Experience:
- Have at least 1 AWS Associate or Professional Certification
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with Terraform
- Scripting capability and the ability to develop AWS environments as code
- Experience with Security Groups and IAM (Identity and Access Management) CloudWatch (Monitoring, Logging), Debugging and Tracing on AWS Cloud Platform)
- Experience with Database, including knowledge of SQL and MySQL, and related data stores such as Postgres.
- Experience with Git, and strong skills with JSON
- Experience with Cloud computing Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), DNS, CDN, Load Balancing and Auto Scaling.
- 3-5 Years On-Premise Experience:
- Solarwinds Enterprise Monitoring and Alerting
- Working Knowledge of Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- VMWare ESX and vSphere
- Maintaining storage systems and hyper-converged systems
