AWS Cloud Engineer at Electrum

Responsibilities:

• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production systems.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems.
• Managing and administrating Linux environments.
• Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across the cloud infrastructure stack.
• Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions.
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Implementation of security protocols by evaluating business strategies and requirements.
• Maintenance and management of tools for automation of different operational processes.
• Definition, deployment and management of metrics, logging, monitoring and alerting.
• Updating job knowledge by tracking and understanding emerging practices and standards; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications and participating in professional organisations.
• Leading and growing a Cloud Engineering team.

Requirements:

• 2+ years experience with AWS Cloud Services.
• 5+ years experience in Infrastructure, Software Development and DevOps.
• 3+ years experience with Linux operating systems.
• Associate / Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Systems Engineering, IT Engineering.
• AWS certifications required (SysOps Administrator is preferred)

Advantageous for the role:

• Experience in Java or a similar object oriented programming language is beneficial.
• Experience in financial services or banking organisations.
• Experience working in a team lead role.
• Experience in engineering data pipelines such as Apache Kafka.
• Experience with ELK or similar on Public Cloud Platforms.
• Experience developing and supporting infrastructure and Cloud capabilities for container-orchestration architectures.
• Experience working with scripting and provisioning tools like Ansible, CloudFormation or equivalent.
• Experience with configuration of VPN and firewall management.
• Experience with authentication and authorization technologies and protocols (LDAP, Kerberos, AD, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML).