Sr. Infrastructure Engineer

Manager Notes: We need less of build/release and more infrastructure experience PLEASE only send candidates with LinkedIn.

Job Description

Title: Sr. Infrastructure Engineer/AWS Engineer

Remote PST

6+ month contract

What you’ll be doing

Create and modify Jenkins pipelines to support CI/CD of Kubernetes microservices
Work with Software Development teams to write and tune their application Helm charts for EKS
Create new Terraform architecture and modules to provision AWS resources
Guide application teams on best practices in the cloud
Support and enable teams to migrate from on-prem environments into AWS
Troubleshoot issues with EKS, AMI, EC2, ASG, LBs, networking and Jenkins pipelines

What your background looks like

Required Technical Skills & Experience

4+ years and expert level experience and understanding of Kubernetes applications
6+ years and expert level experience and understanding of Terraform
8+ years and expert level experience and understanding of AWS services
- EKS, EC2, ASG, SG, ALB/NLB/WAF, Routing, Networking, Route53, EC2 Image Builder
8+ years and expert level experience writing Jenkins files and Jenkins Shared Libraries

Required Soft Skills & Experience

Experience with leading application migrations into the cloud according to best practices, standards and cloud-native architecture.
You are passionate about building and running distributed systems at scale in production. You understand the challenges and trade-offs to be made when building and deploying systems to production.
Very strong written and verbal communication as you will be driving both requirements and implementation
Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and high availability.
Knowledge and experience about the differences between onprem and the cloud and how to help applications teams that don’t understand those differences.
Highly skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, identifying anomalous system behavior, and determining the root cause of incidents.
You've demonstrated the ability to effectively work collaboratively across functions and communicate between many different teams.
Interest in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
Systematic problem-solving approach coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.