Desired Skills and Experience
- Experienced in designing/implementing Virtual Private Cloud VPC environments including compute, storage, database, networking, security etc. in the AWS ecosystem
- Working knowledge of the AWS network architecture including designing VPN solutions between regions and subnets
- Hands on knowledge with the AWS AMI architecture including the development of machine templates and blueprints
- Prior working knowledge designing the HA / DR strategies in the AWS ecosystem
- Understands and can serve as the technical team lead to oversee the build of the Cloud environment based on customer requirements
- Should be able to validate that the environment meets all security and compliance controls
- Good working knowledge of AWS Services and Offerings such as Messaging, Application Services, Migration Services, Cost Management Platform
- Working knowledge of Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet or Ansible preferred) Continuous Integration Tools (Jenkins preferred)
- Proven written and verbal communication skills working directly with customers and translating their business needs to technical requirements for implementation.
- Prior experience provisioning and spinning up AWS Clusters
- Production experience to build scalable systems (load balancers, memcached, master/slave architectures)
- Experience supporting a managed services infrastructure (On-Prem and/or Public cloud)
- Ability to maintain, monitor and optimize production database servers
- Prior work with Cloud Monitoring tools (Nagios, Cacti, CloudWatch, Gnaglia, etc.)
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc)
- Other Open Source tools used in the infrastructure space (Packer, Terraform, Vagrant, etc.)
- Prior experience leading technical teams through design and implementation of systems infrastructure projects