Chicago, Illinois
AWS DevOps Engineer Job Opening in Chicago, Illinois - About Everspring
Join some of the world?s best problem-solvers, pioneers, and out-of-the-box thinkers.
Since , Everspring has partnered with leading universities to create a new standard of excellence in online education. Behind the curtain, you?ll find a dynamic, innovative, and collaborative team environment, with colleagues who continue to shape the culture and success of our company. Our heart is in our work, these aren?t your typical online education jobs ? we?re always striving to make a difference in everything that we do.
Position
Our Technology team is committed to doing well; committed to doing things the right way; and committed to leaving it better than how they found it. This team makes things, loves to make things and makes things better. This team makes the people around them better at what they do by being great at what they do.
The AWS Cloud Engineer is an exciting role for an experienced systems guru that has one foot planted in Security in the Cloud and the other in DevOps Automation. This role will wear multiple hats, working closely with the developers to design and buildout DevOps Automation, while working with the Sr. Systems Administrator to maintain our Cloud infrastructure. This is a fast paced, exciting role, and well suited for someone looking to get their hands dirty in a lot of different areas.
This position reports to the Lead Architect and is located in Chicago, IL .
Responsibilities
Cloud Engineering & Security
Build and maintain reliable infrastructure and security services in AWS to deliver highly available and scalable services. Use native AWS infrastructure services such as EC2, EBS, Auto Scaling, Cloudwatch, etc.
Basic system administration tasks such as configuring servers and applications, automating routine tasks, backup/restore, etc.
Provision and maintain accounts in AWS, issue VPN certificates, install SSH keys, etc.
Serve on the on-call team, and as an escalation contact for service incidents
DevOps
Build engineering automation and productivity tools to streamline and scale applications across all environments.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to application development, deployment and operations.
Work collaboratively with all participants in agile software development project and support developers and testers as they set up their build Dev / Test environments.
Automate everything to minimize manual work and meet security and compliance objectives in all aspects of the secure cloud ecosystem.
Integrating automated software tests with the build process
Script with deployment automation tools e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.
Implement automated high-availability deployments
Become proficient in understanding how each software component, system design and configuration is linked together to form an end-to-end solution
Requirements
Minimum of 3 years as a DevOps/Sys Engineer (or similar position) in a production capacity
Strong understanding and knowledge of Linux, Automation Tools (Chef or Puppet), AWS Services (EC2, Network, ELB, S3/EBS, etc.) or similar Public Cloud platform, and scripting languages (Ruby, Perl, PowerShell or other).
Knowledge of SQL & NoSQL databases
Hands-on experience in working with security systems including firewalls, intrusion systems, anti-virus software, authentication systems, log management and content filtering etc.
Knowledge of security concepts such as (cloud) Authentication, Authorization, web attacks (DDOS, SQL injections, , etc), securing web application, payload encryption & decryption, environment security, etc.
Strong understanding of network concepts including TCP/IP, HTTP and TLS.
Experience with orchestration tools such as Puppet, Chef or Ansible.
A track record of delivering IT and application automation using these automation tools.
Experience designing/deploying highly available middleware or application components.
A willingness to be flexible in responding to customer issues as they occur, and the ability to identify product/deployment improvements to mitigate future occurrences.
Experience with cloud hosted apps/service, AWS experience required, and able to translate business requirements into securely implemented capabilities in the Cloud
Deep understanding of version control systems (svn, Git, etc.), including branching and merging strategies
Possess knowledge of systems infrastructure with domain expertise in areas such as networking, storage, high availability, cloud security, application performance, etc.
Bachelor?s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related degree.
Everspring is an equal opportunity employer.
Job Type: Full-time
Job Location:
Chicago, IL
Required education:
Bachelor's
Required experience:
DevOps: 3 years
Cloud Security and Compliance: 3 years
|
