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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. 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

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

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 PlatformContainerization (Kubernetes)DevOps toolchainInfrastructure as Code (IaC)PythonAWS certificationLinux System AdministrationAutomationCloudFormationCommunication skillsCollaboration skillsLeadership skills

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

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

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

Solid understanding and experience with a CI/CD tool chain

10+ years of overall experience in IT including hands-on Development and Systems engineering background

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field; master's degree preferred

[5-10] years of experience in cloud engineering and automation, with a focus on AWS cloud services

Minimum of 8-10 years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Automation and Administration

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

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

Must be well versed in Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code

In-depth knowledge of AWS services and solutions, including but not limited to EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch

Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices for building scalable, resilient, and secure cloud environments

Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation

Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Minimum of 1 AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer is required

Strong skills are desired in each of the following areas: Development: Experience programming with one or more languages: Python, Java, Groovy, Go, etc

IAC Tools for Platform Automation: Strong skills and experience in at least one: Ansible, and Terraform, AWS Cloud formation, CDK

Containers: Docker or other OCI-certified containers- is a Plus

Container Orchestration Platform: Experience with Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS ECS is a plus

CNI Plugins: Calico, Flannel, Weave Net etc

Service Mesh: Istio, AWS App Mesh, OpenShift Service Mesh etc

Container Security Tools: Twistlock, Sysdig, Aqua etc. is a plus

Platform Monitoring, Observability, & Performance Tools: Nginx, New Relic, AppDynamics, Data Dog, Thanos, Jaeger, LogDNA, etc

DevOps Tools: Git/Repo, Crucible, Bitbucket, Jira, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Bamboo, Maven, Artifactory, Nexus etc

Understanding of Cloud Native Architecture

Linux, Shell scripting, and general admin skills

Network, Security, Plugins, & Storage Skills

AWS skills: EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, IAM, VPC, Lambda etc

Cloud and DevOps certifications, e.g., AWS

Knowledge of programming languages and web-based technologies

Ability to collaborate to solve technical problems across teams

Expert - Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Expert - The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes them ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs

Must be able to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads that can be variable for long periods of time

Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence

Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging

AWS Cloud certifications, minimum of One 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

FinOps Certification is a Plus