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Job order - J0117-1569 - Permanent Full Time
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| Title |
AWS Cloud Engineer (Operations, 3:00 PM to 11:00PM) |
| Category |
Infrastructure/Cloud |
| City |
Lafayette, Louisiana, United States |
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| Job Description |
AWS Cloud Engineer (Operations, 3:00 PM to 11:00PM)
Position Description
U360 AWS Cloud Engineer will participate in POC and support of AWS cloud for CGI clients.
• Plans, implements and supports virtual machines (EC2), cloud storage (S3) and security services (IAM) with an overall objective to improve the scalability, reliability, performance, and availability of the cloud infrastructure. Administrates the cloud development, test and production cloud hosted environments
• Provides system analysis and recommended solutions for environment performance needs
• Monitors and escalates engineering issues to architecture team when required
• Ensures system performance, uptime and support levels meet or exceed SLAs
• Assists project teams with capacity planning, cloud service offerings, and deployments
Intermediate/advanced knowledge of the primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53, S3, & VPC)
Currently we are operating 24x5 coverage and will be going to 24x7x365 coverage in the near future. As this is a production environment, candidates should be flexible to cover 24x7 operations.
Your future duties and responsibilities
The AWS Cloud Engineer is primarily responsible for the daily operation and maintenance of client environments and deploying new client environments within the deployment criteria of the architecture team.
Additionally, responsible for the engineering, management and troubleshooting of client business and technical solutions in support of CGI Federal’s Hybrid Information Technology solution leveraging AWS.
The AWS Cloud Engineer supports solution development with subject matter expertise and builds and participates in solution sessions to resolve CGI client issues and problems.
The AWS Cloud Engineer will provide subject matter experience and expertise to support system operations teams and services to both internal and external clients in production environments.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
- Participate in planning, implementation, and growth of our infrastructure on Amazon Web Services
- Manage and support full application stacks from the OS through custom applications using Amazon cloud based computing environments.
- Work closely with our architects and engineers to design networks, systems, and storage environment that effectively reflect our client's business needs, security, and service level requirements
- Manage a continuous integration/continuous deployment methodology for our server based technologies
- Work with engineering and architecture teams to support production design and implement scalable software services
- Experience designing and building web application environments on AWS
- Experience with Jenkins, Maven, Linux, Git, Tomcat, Jira
- Experience with Docker and containers, Linux and Windows system administration
- A team player capable of high performance and flexibility in a dynamic working environment
- Ability to lead system deployment and incidance response
- Skill and ability to train others on technical and procedural topics
- AWS Professional Level Certification a plus
- Written and oral communication skills – ability to communicate technical concepts and support assertions with data
- Organizational skills – ability to coordinate and prioritize many issues simultaneously
- Analytical/Problem solving ability – ability to quickly evaluate an issue, resolve it or implement a workaround with consistent accuracy and success.
- High Sense of Urgency – This job entails supporting business critical applications, with stringent SLAs
-Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) and a minimum of 5 years of related experience, of which 2 years’ experience must be directly related to supporting AWS environments.
The following AWS Certifications are highly desired; significant hands on experience may be substituted:
- Certified Solutions Engineer (Associate or Professional)
- Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
- Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
- ITIL, CISSP or other relevant certifications are desirable
Due to the nature of our Government clients, US Citizenship is required
Desired skills:
FedRAMP, NIST and FISMA compliance, Federal procurement, security and Authorization and Accreditation (A&A) processes, VMWare, IT Service Management, Content Delivery Networks
Terraform, Consul, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, microservice architecture, CloudFormation
At CGI, we’re a team of builders. We call our employees members because all who join CGI are building their own company - one that has grown to 65,000 professionals located in 40 countries. Founded in 1976, CGI is a leading IT and business process services firm committed to helping clients succeed. We have the global resources, expertise, stability and dedicated professionals needed to achieve results for our clients - and for our members. Come grow with us. Learn more at www.cgi.com.
This is a great opportunity to join a winning team. CGI offers a competitive compensation package with opportunities for growth and professional development. Benefits for full-time, permanent members start on the first day of employment and include a paid time-off program and profit participation and stock purchase plans.
We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position, however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.
No unsolicited agency referrals please.
All CGI offers of employment in the U.S. are contingent upon the ability to successfully complete a background investigation. Background investigation components can vary depending upon specific assignment, or upon any US government security clearance if required. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, gender Identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, or other status protected by law. CGI will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with CGI’s legal duty to furnish information.
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