Cloud Engineer(AWS)

Job Responsibilities

Designing and implementing the next generation of Amazon services’ underlying architecture, inventing new techniques, solving complex scaling challenges, and launching new service features. Providing system support for the manageability, operability and performance of the software platforms and creating simple processes that help operate and build our system infrastructure. Adapting and improving operations management systems and processes to accommodate rapid and increasing growth in systems and traffic. Optimizing the performance of our systems by analyzing and deploying new hardware configurations. Applying networking and systems skills to build, optimize, and extend rapidly growing Amazon software services. Developing custom components to augment/enhance the current systems or design and build new applications/components ground up to better align with the team’s and internal customer’s goals and vision.

Some of the key activities include:

Maintaining HPC environments on AWS

Maintaining Linux/Windows Remote desktop sessions

User onboard, file permission, user group

Maintaining HPC job scheduler (PBS)

Maintain and manage multiple software tools (Install, configure, update/upgrade, patch and fix security vulnerabilities) such as but not limited Atlassian tools

Manage software licensing service, customer and vendor communication for licensing needs.

Issue (defect, risk, vulnerability, user requests) triaging and timely resolution of tickets (which include individual user requests to security and compliance issues raise for entities such as operating systems, AWS infrastructure and software updates)

Basic qualification

2+ years of experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, PowerShell, C++,

7+ years of experience in automation (building, testing, releasing or monitoring) and building tools for the same.

10+ years of Linux administration experience along-with networking, storage systems and hands-on systems engineering experience

5+ years of experience with AWS cloud on services such as but not limited to EC2, EFS, EBS, S3, Route53, VPC, VPC Peering and CloudFormation

1+ years of experience in HPC systems and job schedulers (such as Altair PBS, Slurm, IBM LSF),

1+ years managing Network License Servers (FlexLM compliant network licenses)

2+ years of experience managing back-end databases (both SQL and NoSQL) on AWS