We are looking for

Senior AWS/Red Hat/OpenShift DevOps Engineer

Hybrid position in Newark, NJ
Client industry: Health/Medical/Cancer Research
Hybrid job: 2 days a week on-site in Newark, NJ and 3 days a week remote
Full-time: 40 hours per week
Duration: 1 year 

Start: ASAP
Rate: $65-$70/hour

Key Responsibilities
• Maintain AWS cloud infrastructure in optimal configuration from both technical and budgetary perspectives.
• Makes effective use of CloudWatch to monitor EC2 performance and setup trigger based alerts.
• Reference EC2 security groups to troubleshoot connectivity issues between EC2 instances and other Horizon and AWS resources.
• Provision EC2 instances end-to-end. This requires knowledge of instance families, EBS, VPC, security groups, and tags.
• Make appropriate use of AWS operational best practices in areas such as security, storage, resource management, backup and recovery, and networking.
• Identify issues and inconsistencies through the AWS console and proactively work to correct them.
• A working understanding of AWS sizing and pricing regarding AWS compute, storage, and database services.

Required Skills & Experience:
• 5+ years of experience with AWS environment, operations and automation.
• AWS certification required, AWS Certified Solutions Architect (associate or pro)
• Must be strong with AWS, LAMP stack and automation S3, EC2, etc.
• Must be strong with Red Hat Enterprise OS and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS
• Work in DevOps environment
• Automation experience with Jenkins or Ansible
• Experience working in an agile environment

Desired Skills & Experience
• Containerization experience with Docker or Kubernetes
• Ability to identify and gather requirements to define a solution to be built and operated on AWS
• Experience with Linux command-line and JSON (as it applies to AWS policies)