Growing FinTech company is looking to hire an AWS DevOps Engineer. This position is a contract through the end of 2023 at least, 100% remote, must work East Coast hours.

No 3rd Party or C2C available for this position. No Sponsorship Available for this position.

Target Rate: $75-80 an hour W2

This position will primarily focus on automation in Amazon Web Services (AWS) as we build and scale our online presence.

Responsibilities include:

• Provide end user support for the Chicago office by creating / deleting software accounts and helping team members with VPN setup.
• Programmatically create infrastructure in AWS, leveraging Autoscaling Groups, Security Groups, Route53, S3, and IAM.
• Experience with Git.
• Enable our product development team to deliver new code daily through Continuous Integration and Deployment Pipelines.
• Protect our customer data with continuous security practices and monitoring.
• Ensure our systems are highly available and resilient.
• Participation in 24/7 on-call rotations for mission critical web systems.

Mandatory Skills

• The ideal candidate will have command line experience with Linux including writing bash scripts. Networking fundamentals and programming skills in Python, Ruby, Java, or similar language is needed. It is important to have the ability to learn and apply new technologies through self-learning.

We also prefer the following skills and experience:

VPCs, ELBs, RDS, Cloudwatch, EC2, and Lambda.

Configuration Management experience with Terraform and Ansible or similar (Chef, Puppet, Salt).

Setup and management of a Kubernetes cluster, including writing Dockerfiles and Helm templates. Continuous Integration setup and administration.

Release Engineering: deployment pipelines; continuous deployment. Open-source monitoring experience (Prometheus / Grafana preferred). Database administration of PostgreSQL or similar. Management of growing Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana stack. Architecting highly-available distributed systems.

AWS operations experience. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

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About Advantage Technical

With company roots going back over 30 years, Advantage Technical is an engineering and information technology services company and a national leader in the provision of technical resources today. These services include Staff Augmentation, Direct Placement, Project Resourcing and Outsourcing – delivered from 40 key market locations, by over 3500 specialized contractors, to over 500 clients across North America. Advantage Technical is a Best of Staffing Diamond Award winner for both Clients and Talent. For more information about the industries and services offered by Advantage Technical, please visit AdvantageTechnical.com.

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