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Lumen Solutions Group Inc. · 5 months ago

Lead AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Reston, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

Lumen Solutions Group Inc. is a dynamic small and minority-owned consulting services provider focused on IT Staffing and Business Strategy. They are seeking a Lead AWS Cloud Platform Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and integrating cloud platform resources on Amazon Web Services (AWS), while collaborating with a team to deliver scalable and secure cloud solutions.

Information Technology & Services

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Installs, tunes, upgrades, troubleshoots, and maintains all computer systems relevant to the supported applications including all necessary tasks to perform operating system administration, user account management, disaster recovery strategy and networking configuration

Develop and implement techniques to prevent system problems, troubleshoots incidents to recover services, and support the root cause analysis

Evaluates new systems by performing in-depth tests, including end-user reviews. Researches software and related products to support recommendations and purchasing. Determines systems integration issues by evaluating components; developing and completing performance tests; analyzing test data; studying project requirements; analyzing user and potential user input; evaluating similar and related products and systems. Develop system automation and system integration of business processes

Improves engineering job knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies

Acts as a mentor for junior and senior team members

Communicates Architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, while highlighting short-term trade-offs vs. long-term commitments and costs

Engage in and improve the end-to-end Lifecycle of services, starting from Inception & design, deployment, and operations

Establish automation capabilities leveraging Cloud native solutions, to improve the Developer experience

Support activities, including System design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews

Willingness to roll up the sleeves and troubleshoot difficult issues and engage the Customer

Willingness to learn new AWS Services and other technologies as required

Systems Scalability and sustainability leveraging automation and strive to improve our systems with changes that improve reliability and velocity

Experience with Enterprise Cloud transformation and migration efforts

Actively participate and help guide customers on using Cloud-native design and architecture patterns

Provide Consultation on Technology infrastructure planning and engineering for assigned systems; Assesses the implications of technology strategies on infrastructure capabilities

Establish strategies to migrate Legacy applications by conversion to multiple Microservices and hosting on AWS Cloud platform

Leverage Cloud-native architecture components including Containers, immutable infrastructure, Microservices, Service Mesh etc., to build highly available and Fault tolerant applications

Conduct research on the global technology trends and their applicability to FEPOC products in support of our internal development teams and business initiatives

Promotes and ensures Modern application design, applies engineering best practices in the development and operations life cycle and mitigates vulnerabilities

Monitors and manages the Stability, Availability, and Performance of enterprise systems and platforms across IT domains. (e.g., Systems, Network, Storage, Security) by analyzing systems to identify problems, trends, and opportunities for improvement

Automate end to end process to maintain (patches and upgrades) of our AWS Cloud ecosystem

Makes data-driven recommendations and decisions and continuously improves the overall efficacy and efficiency of our software delivery capabilities

Mentoring peers as well as engaging with others across teams and socializing solutions

Qualification

AWS Cloud PlatformSite Reliability EngineeringContainerization (Kubernetes)Infrastructure as Code (IaC)PythonDevOps toolchainAWS servicesLinux System AdministrationAutomationCommunication skillsCollaborationLeadershipProblem-solving

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science

8 years proven success overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software systems and applications

In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience

Minimum of 10 years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Platform engineering and Administration

Strong Leadership experience with driving Transformation initiatives

3-5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering role

Experience with SRE principles and transformation

3+ years of experience with Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure etc.), DevOps tool chain (Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc.)

Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python

Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Dev, Architects, Engineers)

Platform Engineering Lead with Hands-on Experience: Building robust Middleware Environments

Previous Linux System administration is required

Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS etc

Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production level experience in AWS Cloud

Hands on experience with Automation and Infrastructure Provisioning is a must – Our goal is to only provision infrastructure with Code, and Policy As Code

Must be familiar with Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code

Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and CDK is required

Must have hands on experience in writing Lambda functions preferably in Python (Boto3)

Must be well versed in writing Linux Bash scripts

Minimum of One AWS certification is required

Preferred

Seeking experienced and dynamic AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to provide hands-on technical expertise for supporting our AWS footprint, including Security and Guardrails

Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment preferred

Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and serverless computing is a plus

Exposure to Artificial intelligence patterns, Machine Learning and engineering of AWS solutions. Good knowledge of leveraging Amazon Kendra, SageMaker, Lambda, Bedrock, Rag models etc

A great understanding of various DevOps toolchains, including Git/repo, Crucible, Jenkins etc

Experience with Enterprise Cloud transformation and migration efforts

Hands-on experience with Containerization and Amazon EKS is a big plus

FinOps Certification is a Plus