Looking for a cloud Engineer that is coming from a development background

90/hr c2c

Mus thaves

Req Skills:
- Cloud- AWS
- DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGES- PYTHON, NODE , GO
- Looking for Certified Architect- professional
- Engineering Background
- Containerization
- Automation
- Strong with Ansible and Terraform

Job Descriptuion:

IT for R&ED Data Management & Platforms

Role: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Central NJ (Princeton, Lawrenceville, New Brunswick) & Remote

Job Description

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will be responsible for project deliverables related to strategic initiatives within R&ED Therapeutic Research Centers, Linux/Windows engineering and cloud support. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering solutions as part of larger projects, working in a highly matrixed environment. As part of the Data Management & Platforms team, they will serve as technical specialist for cloud resources used for scientific R&ED. Additionally, they will help guide the team towards the optimal cloud resource usage and cost savings.

The role responsibilities require high level of digital innovation, and demand passion, speed, accountability and creative problem solving. The successful candidate will actively work towards solving business needs identified in the scope below, and will be a contributing resource in the development and maintenance of cloud capabilities for R&ED. They will collaborate and work closely with other functional teams in IT, business stakeholders and digital innovation teams to ensure the optimal portfolio of applications exists to support the business.

Key Responsibilities

On-going production operations cloud & on-prem hosted infrastructure and applications

Support self-service tooling to support R&ED Researchers and Departments

Ensure adherence to the BMS best practices including (but not limited to) resiliency, availability, security, governance and cloud cost optimization

Reduce and resolve production incidents by identifying preventive controls and driving proactive efforts

Monitor cloud resource cost and usage metrics to optimize cloud spend

Track system uptime and availability

Key Skills

Hands-on experience with - Linux, Windows, Server Infrastructure, Cloud, Storage

Hands-on experience with Public Cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP

Hands-on expertise in troubleshooting cloud environments - finding and fixing critical production issues

Practical experience with development languages - Python and/or Go

Fluent with one or more Infrastructure as Code Platforms - Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and/or Chef

Practical knowledge of cloud shared responsibility model and security best practices.

Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and services including:

EC2/RDS

Storage (S3, EFS, FSx, EBS, Storage Gateway)

IAM: Roles, Control Policies, Organizational Units, etc.

Strong communication skills

AWS Certifications Desired:

Certified Solutions Architect Professional and/or DevOps Engineer

Solutions Architect - Associate / SysOps Administrator

Preferred Experience and Qualifications

Experience implementing containerized (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS) solutions

Monitoring - Grafana/Nagios/CloudWatch/Dynatrace

Experience working in an Agile environment

Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision

Ability to learn quickly and adapt to the constant change of the cloud platforms and multiple work streams

Strong organizational and analytical skills with an understanding of IT operations

Demonstrable experience deploying, and supporting enterprise workloads to AWS

Degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Experience in Pharmaceuticals and/or Healthcare IT

Experience with IT asset management and compliance using enterprise CMDBs and change control

Location

Princeton, New Jersey

Required Skills : Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills :
Background Check :Yes
Drug Screen :Yes
Notes :1 step IV process SUbvending for approved av's only Needs to be able to come onsite twice a week in Princeton, NJ
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :No
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
Interview times set : :No
Type of project :AWS Partner Network
Master Job Title :Cloud: Infrastructure Architect
Branch Code :New Jersey