AWS Consultant with DevOps experience

Job Title: AWS Consultant with DevOps experience

Location: Mclean, VA

Duration: 6 Months

INTERVIEW PROCESS: F2F REQUIRED MUST BE LOCALS TO VA/MD/DC.

Key Responsibilities:

· Design, build and maintain infrastructure on AWS environment

· Migrate existing services from physical data centers to AWS cloud

· Write scripts to automate operations and server management

· Maintain QA and Production configuration using automation tools

· Build and maintain operations tools for monitoring, notifications, trending, and analysis.

· Define, create, test, and execute operations procedures.

· Troubleshoot production issues

· Install OS updates/hotfixes/patches/service packs

· Works with Application Developers to automate builds and software deployments to QA & production

· Maintain and enhance the Continuous Integration & Deployment environment

· Document current and future configuration processes and policies.

Desired Skills and Experience

· Key characteristics of the right individual are a desire and passion to take-on a broad set of responsibilities. This job will require the individual to rapidly understand our technology and work with multiple partners.

· At least 4 years’ experience with building and maintaining production environments in large-scale consumer websites running on Linux using Apache/Tomcat/Oracle

· At least 2 years of practical experience with most if not all of the following components of AWS: VPC, EC2, ELB, Route53, S3, CloudFormation, IAM, Redshift, OpsWorks, DirectConnect

· Experience with high availability and scalability in AWS

· Fluent in Linux (RedHat/CentOS/Amazon) administration & shell scripting (BASH)

· Comfortable with one of the programming/scripting languages: Python, Ruby

· Hands on experience with configuration tools like puppet, Chef

· Production experience developing, configuring and supporting monitoring systems, alerting and analytics (Sumo Logic, OpManager, Stack Driver, Amazon Cloud Watch etc)

· Familiar with source control tools GIT & SVN

· Experience with Continuous Integration tools

· Proficient in creating technical documentation & diagrams using Visio or similar

· Experience working in an entrepreneurial environment with a strong “do it yourself” ethic.

· Strong problem resolution, troubleshooting, and QA skills

· Experience in telecom systems preferred

· Hands on experience with configuration tools like SALT, puppet, Chef, with strong preference to SALT

· Experience with continuous integration tools, with strong preference to Teamcity

Mahesh Gunnam
USM Systems Inc.
703-880-4184 gmahesh(@)usmsystems(.)com

If my requirement matches your resume, then please do reply on my email id gmahesh(at)usmsystems(dot)com and contact no is 703-880-4184.