DevOps Consultant
Job ID 473784Location US-MI-Virtual Location - MichiganPosted Date 12/20/2016Company Amazon Web Services, Inc.Position Category Project/Program/Product Management--TechnicalRecruiting Team North American Teams - AWSJob Description
At Amazon Web Services (AWS) we're hiring highly talented and technical DevOps Architects/Engineers to help accelerate our growing Professional Services business. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon's world class technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies. Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs. Amazon aims to be the most customer centric company on earth. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers critical applications for hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world.
Basic Qualifications
BA/BS degree or equivalent experience; Computer Science or Math background preferred
•5+ years of experience as a technical specialist in Customer-facing roles.
•Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
•Ability to travel to client locations when needed. Up to 50% regionally.
•Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment.
•Experience building sophisticated and highly automated infrastructure. Prior success in automating a real-world production environment.
•Experience with seamless/automated build scripts used for release management across all environments.
•Understanding and experience with code deployment (tagging).
Preferred Qualifications
•Experience with Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments with many nodes. Familiarity with CloudFormation and JSON.
•Strong scripting skills, i.e., Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc.
•Knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewalling.
•Familiarity with any monitoring tools like Nagios, Incinga, SiteScope, etc.
•Experience with revision control source code repositories (Git, SVN, Mercurial, Perforce).
•Management of continuous integration servers like Jenkins, Bamboo and TeamCity.
•Experience with automated testing tools (ie. Selenium, JMeter).
•Understanding and experience with code deployment (tagging).Understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA and REST).
•Experience building enterprise security strategy for cloud adoption or driving the program's evolution to meet new requirements
•Experience leading the certification or accreditation of cloud workload(s) to meet industry standards such as PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and NIST/DoD frameworks.
•Strong verbal and written communications skills and ability to lead effectively across organizations
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