I just received this email, and the job looks incredibly interesting to me. If you've got AWS and DevOps experience, please contact Bhaskar directly (contact details below):
Direct Client:: In person interview is needed. No skype/WebEx/Phone.
Location: Boston, MA
Duration: 12+ months (37.5 hrs/week)
Rate: Open
Responsibilities:
• Help with production issues and deployments and any analytics/data science products
• Move the team closer to continuous deployment, improving tooling (i.e. automation) and use of infrastructure (i.e. try-test-iterate faster)
• Setup deployment infrastructure for Mayflower, our style guide and visual component library
• Setup deployment infrastructure for analytics and data science products, that AWS Lambda and Docker based (Goal: Reduced time to go from engagement to receiving data)
• Create and implement a strategy to monitor Digital Services supported applications and accurately notify engineers of problems
• Construct and maintain a Threat Model for Digital Services supported applications, and implement solutions for gaps in our security based on it
• Develop a reusable infrastructure playbook and tooling for rapidly deploying Data Team packages to internal customers
o Quickly standup standard environment and/or distribute or handoff work deliverables
• Mentor the team on good DevOps practices
• Development and deployment of RESTful APIs, including documentation
• Setup and facilitate processes and environments for the creation of new services; this would include the creation of processes and deployments to dev, test and prod environments for the proof of concepts services developed throughout the agency.
Skills Needed
• 5-8 years of experience in the below categories
• Experience with AWS cloud platform specifically with the following services (or equivalent services within alternative cloud-based platforms)
o AWS CLI
o Cloud Formation
o Cloud Front
o S3 management
o RDS
o DynamoDB
o SNS & SQS
o EC2 management
o Elastic beanstalk and other auto-scaling services
o Lambda Function (python & node)
o API Gateway
o AWS Route 53 and AWS Cert Manager
• Linux terminal
• Experience with an IaaS (preferably: Amazon Web Services)
• Virtual machines
• Monitor production web applications
• People and technical process improvement/re-engineering
• Communicating effectively
• Continuous integration/deployment
• Conducting technical and behavioral interviews
• Infrastructure security practices
• Documenting in plain language
• RESTful APIs
• Infrastructure automation tools
• Amazon Web Services
• “Serverless” architecture such as AWS Lambda
• Microservices architecture
• Bonus points for experience with:
o Acquia Cloud
o PHP
o Drupal
o Agile/iterative development
o User Experience (UX) practice
o Python
o Ansible
o Docker
o Other Coding Experience
