Position: System Engineer IV
Location: Washington, DC (2 days a week onsite)
Job Type: Contract Assignment

Job Description:
SUMMARY / OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this position is to assist **** IT Operations department accomplish the following objectives:

* Design, develop, document, test, and debug new configuration management (Terraform) infrastructure as code from scratch.

* Operationalize AWS and implement security mechanisms for AWS services.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

* General AWS Architecture

* AWS Command Line Interface

* Shell Scripting (Shell, Perl and Python)

* Unix/Linux systems installation, operations, administration, and maintenance

* Unix shell and standard utilities, and common Unix/ Linux security tools

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

* Collaborate with internal teams to architect, engineer, configure and deploy AWS and other infrastructure technologies using approved organizational technologies.

* Work "hand in hand" with System Operations to develop self-service infrastructure provisioning, delivery pipelines, log, and monitoring services.

* Update system documentation as required

* Collaborates with IT Operations Engineers in installing applications and servers including both physical and virtual types.

* Monitor, fix and improve infrastructure continuously.

* Operates monitoring, alerting, backups, antivirus, anti-spam, malware, etc. as well as offsite storage, and data mirroring.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND EXPERIENCE

* Bachelor Degree and/or relevant technical training with no preferred certification.

* Seven (7) to Ten (10) years of directly related experience.

* Three (3) to Five (5) years of operational and/or technical experience.

* Extensive knowledge of Linux server operating systems.

* Extensive knowledge of designing, developing and troubleshooting new and existing scripting.

* Experience in systems administration and Engineering in a mature Enterprise environment.

* Extensive AWS Cloud infrastructure environments including ECS, EC2, API, S3, Lambda and others.

* Sophisticated understanding of ports, protocols, and routing and switching in a firewalled, wide- area network.

* Experience with Public Cloud infrastructure management

* Bonus - Experience with RHEL Satellite server.

* Bonus - Experience with Puppet

* Bonus - Experience with the Atlassian Suite of products

LICENSES, CERTIFICATES

* AWS Certification