A really interesting AWS DevOps job opening

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

Thanks
Bhaskar

Bhaskar Nainwal
Software People Inc.bhaskar.nainwal@softwarepeople.us
Ph: 631-739-8915 © Fax: 631-574-3122