CloudOps Engineer (AWS)

About the Position

Optimize Partners is looking to hire a CloudOps Engineer (AWS) for a long-term consulting project in NYC. Our client is a progressive late-stage B2B SaaS cloud technology start-up building a private cloud for US Federal Government Agencies. This will be a long-term consulting project (~6 months to ~1 year) with real potential to become a full-time permanent role. Due to the sensitive nature of the work, and according to Federal Guidelines, this consultant must be either a US Citizen or Green Card holder.

Responsibilities

• Provisioning, installing, configuring, operating, and maintaining virtual servers, operating systems software, and related infrastructure within AWS
• Implements agreed-upon secure baseline configurations, incorporates secure configuration settings for client's cloud/DB applications and solutions, and assists with security impact analyses and configuration monitoring activities
• Performs technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure
• Performs periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning
• Responding to incidents, service outages, and other problems
• Performs daily system monitoring, verifies the integrity and availability of all server resources, systems, and key processes (e.g., reviews system and application logs, verifies completion of scheduled jobs, backups, etc.)
• Performs regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions (e.g., Reviews vulnerability reports, assesses risk of vulnerabilities, proposes corrective actions or mitigating controls, etc.)
• Co-lead the client's CloudOps Continual Service Improvement initiatives, which includes: ITIL-based KPIs to benchmark the performance ITSM Services (e.g., Incident Response, Information System Contingency, Configuration-Change Management, CloudOps tools, Requirements, policies, and procedural guidelines, etc.)

Requirements

• Linux
• AWS
• PostgreSQL
• Ansible
• Bash / Python
• FedRamp (nice to have)

We Offer

• Competitive salary: $100,000 per year
• Location: New York, NY, United States
• Employment type: Contract

About the Company

Optimize Partners is a company dedicated to providing top-notch cloud technology solutions. We are committed to supporting our clients in achieving their goals through innovative and secure cloud infrastructure.