Beschreibung
NextLink are currently working with a leading pharmaceutical organisation who are seeking a Senior AWS OS/VM Specialist on a remote basis on an initial 4 month contract.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
• Ability to build custom and hardened Amazon Machine Images and responsible for systems functionality, performance and configuration issues.
• Configure platform agents and introduce system automation to perform Unit, Functional, Compliance and Performance tests
• Strong experience with the administration of Linux servers, Virtual Machines and Networks using automated configuration management tools (Bare-metal, private data-centre and Cloud)
• Ability to automate manual tasks with scripts and other tools
• Strong understanding of TCPIP, Linux OS and Process automation
• 20% operations tickets
Key Exerience:
Programming
• Python / golang / ruby / perl and testing frameworks
• Bash and Powershell advanced scripting
• Experience developing command-line and standalone applications
OS / VM (EC2):
• Experienced in Debian or/and Redhat + derivates (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, CentOS) - Solid understanding of Unix/Linux systems
• OS/Kernel tuning, configuration, upgrades and patch management - Linux and Windows
• Configuration management and advanced scripting / Git and SCM
• AMI Builder tools and OS testing frameworks (ansible, packer, inspec) / RPM and DEB packaging systems
• AWS command cli and Boto3 - Document system configurations and how-tos
Cloud Computing and its core technologies:
• Cloud computing ecosystem and Cloud Native Application (preferably AWS)
• Experience with Microservices and Event-driven architectures (producers, consumers, event-channels)
• Security in the Cloud by using AWS native services or 3rd party tools (Dome9, Tenable)
• Serverless Architectures (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Step-Functions, ECS, EKS)
• AWS base service experience (EC2, AMI, S3, IAM, VPC, EBS) and Container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, EKS, ECS)
• Infrastructure-as-Code and related tools
CI/CD:
• Design and implementation of Jenkins or GitLab pipelines
• Produce build in automated fashion by reducing the manual tasks
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle,
• Coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations