AWS Cloud Engineer

Must Have

• Creation, management, and maintenance of AWS & related cloud-based production system.
• Deployment and automation of packages for cloud-based system.
• Excellent knowledge in managing AWS resources and configuring Amazon VPC, AWS Firewall, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, auto-scaling, AWS IAM, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon Aurora DB, Amazon Redshift, Active MQ, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudWatch, and other services in the AWS family.
• Knowledge of the following Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies – Amazon Connect, Amazon Pinpoint, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon Polly.

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise in AWS cloud platform.
• Provide design, build and support for cloud environments to create solutions for Public Health domain.
• Provide expertise on Linux operating system like Red-Hat including installation, troubleshooting, hardening and scripting to automate.
• The role will monitor and assess the performance of applications in a cloud environment to ensure solutions are available.
• Participate to create, test and implement safeguards to maintain data integrity and protect against unauthorized access.
• Regularly review production logs, providing analysis & suggestions to implement measures in a proactive manner.
• Hands-on experience with microservices and distributed application architecture, such as containers, Kubernetes, and/or serverless technology.
• Provide detailed documentation for system design, integration, configuration, development and implementation of related activities.
• Develop and maintain system design models, technical documentation and specifications.
• Produce integration plans, inputs into configuration and development project.

Qualifications

• Public Sector Experience
• 5+ years of experience working with federal/provincial/broader public-sector healthcare providers.
• Knowledge of Public Sector Enterprise Architecture artifacts (or similar), processes and practices, and ability to produce technical documentation that comply with industry standard practices.
• In-depth knowledge of industry standard such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and Public Sector I&IT project management methodologies.
• Knowledge and experience with Public Sector Health related projects.
• Knowledge and understanding of Ministry policy and IT project approval processes and requirements.
• Experience adopting and adhering to Public Sector Unified I&IT Project Methodology, Public Sector Enterprise Architecture and Public Sector Gating process, and Public Sector Standard Systems Development Methodologies.
• Experience with large complex IT Health-related projects.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of experience in IT field:
• Creation, management, and maintenance of AWS & related cloud-based production system.
• Deployment and automation of packages for cloud-based system.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS & related production systems.
• Excellent knowledge in managing AWS resources and configuring Amazon VPC, AWS Firewall, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, auto-scaling, AWS IAM, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon Aurora DB, Amazon Redshift, Active MQ, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudWatch, and other services in the AWS family.
• Knowledge of the following Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies – Amazon Connect, Amazon Pinpoint, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon Polly.
• 5+ years working experience of Unix/Linux operating systems like Solaris and Red-Hat including installation, troubleshooting, hardening and scripting to automate.
• 3+ years with administration of Kubernetes and Docker container solutions.
• Proven implementation of cloud security models, particularly identity, network, and encryption.
• Knowledge of Gitlab or other DevOps tools and CI/CD integration.
• Knowledge of Salesforce solution and MuleSoft API integration.
• Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions.

Preferred Skills

• 10+ years of experience with:
• Production environment troubleshooting and tuning to improve application performance.
• Developing and maintaining system design models, technical documentation and specifications.
• Experience setting up development environments and mechanism using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Maven and Jenkins or similar tools.
• Experience in scripting languages like Python, Bash, PHP, Java, JavaScript, Node, etc.
• Experience in build tools like Git, Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc. for continuous integration.
• Knowledge of container-based virtualization technology like Docker.
• Integration experience in building and using APIs.
• Experience applying industry web, architectural and security standards and best practices.
• Experience in mobile device management for various versions of cellular and tablets.
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS and related platform.
• Designing, maintenance and management of tools for automation of different operational processes.
• Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.