Job title: Infrastructure Engineer

location: Minneapolis, MN

position: Contract

Project Description:

• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure that enable most of our Client technology footprint to run.
• Also responsible to managing lifecycle of the infrastructure and optimizes to improve stability, minimize incidents and response times, while reducing costs by implementing automated solutions.

Position Summary/Job Description:

• Implement infrastructure automation using tools like Terraform, Ansible and Chef.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to automate the build and deployment processes.
• Design and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure to support applications and services.
• Implement best practices for cloud security, monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate cloud solutions into existing systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to cloud infrastructure and services.
• Stay updated with AWS services, features, and industry trends to recommend improvements.
• On-call support for escalations/incidents.

Skills Overview:

What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?

• 8+ years of proven experience as Systems Engineer or Infrastructure Automation Engineer with focus on building platform automation tools and maintaining AWS infrastructure.
• 5+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• 5+ years of experience with Configuration Management such as Chef and Ansible.
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or other DevOps tools.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and scalability concepts in cloud environments.
• Effective collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues and excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?
• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools for CICD pipelines.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and software development life cycle (SDLC).
• AWS certification (e.g. AWS solution architect)