Desired Skills and Experience
- A wide range of AWS services including: EC2 (instances, volumes, load balancing, auto scaling, etc), Lambda, VPC, Route 53, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, IAM, CloudTrail, OpsWorks, and more
- Elasticity and scalability concepts
- Unix system administration
- Containerization - especially Docker
- Scripting with Bash, Ruby, and/or Python
- Robust logging, monitoring, and reporting systems
- Infrastructure hardening
- MySQL database administration
- Interacting with RESTful web services
- Automating release processes
- Working closely with development teams to deliver frequent releases
- Experience with the ELK stack
- Experience in an environment with strict compliance requirements
- Formal AWS training or certification