JustinBradley's client, a leading source of mortgage financing, is seeking an AWS SME Engineer that will be playing a key role in helping on enabling and expanding Analytics platforms for our client's research community and bring in key transformational changes to how they deploy Analytics Tools using AWS cloud native architecture. This role will support a full range of systems engineering activities, including technical requirements analysis, engineering review activities, and special projects that will require individual ownership of Python/R/SAS associated COTS deployments in AWS.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Participate and drive scoping and technical requirements gathering sessions for developing and deploying Python, R or SAS
- Product Development including designing products, developing product roadmaps, translating design requirements, prototyping, etc.
- CI/CD development and management of analytics containers and infrastructure provisioning automation, and operational excellence in the cloud
- Optimize Analytics containers (Python/R) to maximize velocity, efficiency, and agility on cloud native services like ECS, EKS or AWS BATCH
- Build, test and deploy new Infrastructure as Code leveraging all things AWS: Terraform, Gitlab/Jenkins, CloudFormation Templates, Code Pipeline, ECS/EKS (Docker), Lambda (R/Python), CloudWatch, Route53, S3, and more
- Enhance monitor performance of systems in AWS, including overall system health, reliability, performance, and cost
- Operational Excellence including improving and overseeing operations
- Develop & maintain technical documentation including system diagrams, operational procedures & user guides
- Leverage serverless computing, auto-scaling and right-sizing the infrastructure
- Cost Optimization for Storage, EC2 instances and other resources
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of production experience with setting up CI/CD pipelines in systems like Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline
- 5+ years of production experience with core AWS services with experience automating AWS infrastructure
- Experience with AWS cloud migrations
- Strong knowledge of core AWS services- such as S3, EC2, CloudFormation, RDS, Lambda, Step Function, CloudWatch, EventBridge scheduler
- Experience in Software Development preferably in Python/Java
- Solid understanding of AWS networking (VPC, NACLs, SGs, routing etc.)
- Fluency in AWS Cli usage and AWS SDKs for Python/Java
- Python/Java knowledge sufficient to code for AWS SDKs
- Hands-On Shell scripting to create, and manage automation scripts
Tools & Competencies:
- Python
- AWS Tech Stack
- DevOps
- Knowledgeable in the AWS Well Architected Framework
- Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and time-management skills
- Strong communication (verbal and written) and listening skills
- Strong teamwork, planning, and coordination skills
- Self-motivation, adaptability, and the ability to meet aggressive deadlines
- Ability to independently research and resolve technical problems in a complex IT environment with local and remote groups
- Relationship Management including managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, and vendors, building relationship networks, contracting, etc.
- Experience gathering accurate information to explain concepts and answer critical questions
- Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict
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