Senior Systems Engineer – Cloud DevOps

Verizon Connect has an immediate need for a Senior Systems Engineer with AWS Cloud deployment experience to join our existing team of Systems Engineers within the Development Operations team.

• Facilitating the deployment, maintenance and performance tuning of our award winning SaaS application.
• Helping us migrate from on-premise data centre infrastructure to an entirely cloud native infrastructure.
• Delivering world class cloud engineering and DevOps support.
• Monitoring performance, troubleshoot systems problems and outages, scheduling upgrades, patching, collaborating with System Engineers & Architects on optimization.
• Providing on call support for the Development Operations team in an outage situation.
• Working as part of the team to ensure projects and goals are delivered to timelines.
• Ongoing maintenance of documentation relating to new and current systems throughout the organisation.
• Designing and maintaining IAM security policies within AWS.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience.
• Proven experience working with Amazon Web Service technologies.
• Proven experience as Systems Engineer in a Windows/Linux environment.
• Experience of troubleshooting experience on all aspects of the Networking Stack.
• Experience of working in an operating system agnostic infrastructure.
• Experience in designing and implementing Cloud based infrastructure in AWS.
• Proven experience in the automated deployment of infrastructure and services using Cloud formation in AWS.

Even better if you have:

• Current AWS Solutions Architect, Sysops and DevOps certifications are a distinct advantage.
• Ability to approach problems with a sense of ownership, enthusiasm, and innovation.
• A good understanding of the principles/methodologies and tools used in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using Opsworks/Chef.
• Communications skills to clearly articulate complex technical issues to all levels of the organization (both technical and non-technical).
• Experience setting up and maintaining AWS Cloudwatch.
• In-depth knowledge of designing and deploying highly available solutions in AWS using VPC’s and Route53.
• Working knowledge of both Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Experience automating operational tasks in at least one of the following: Powershell, Python, BASH.
• Experience of configuration management system based on Ansible, writing playbooks.