Senior AWS OS/VM Specialist

Senior AWS OS/VM Specialist

Experis IT is Europe's leading IT recruitment agency. We are dedicated to connecting talented individuals with Business opportunities across a number of professional sectors, with IT being at the heart of our operations.
For one of our clients, a leading pharmaceutical company, we are looking for a Senior AWS OS/VM Specialist with experience in Unix/Linux systems

This is a contracting position starting ASAP and running for 4 months with possibility of extension.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to build custom and hardened Amazon Machine Images and responsible for systems functionality, performance and configuration issues.
• Configure platform agents and introduce system automation to perform Unit, Functional, Compliance and Performance tests
• Strong experience with the administration of Linux servers, Virtual Machines and Networks using automated configuration management tools (Bare-metal, private data-centre and Cloud)
• Ability to automate manual tasks with scripts and other tools
• Strong understanding of TCPIP, Linux OS and Process automation
• 20% operations tickets

Must Haves:
Programming

• Python / Golang / Ruby / Perl and testing frameworks
• Bash and PowerShell advanced scripting
• Experience developing command-line and standalone applications

OS / VM (EC2)

• Experienced in Debian or/and Redhat + derivates (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, CentOS) - Solid understanding of Unix/Linux systems
• OS/Kernel tuning, configuration, upgrades and patch management - Linux and Windows
• Configuration management and advanced scripting / Git and SCM
• AMI Builder tools and OS testing frameworks (ansible, packer, inspec) / RPM and DEB packaging systems
• AWS command cli and Boto3 - Document system configurations and how-tos
• Advanced OS package management (apt, yum) and their repository management

Performance and Analysis

• Able to produce consistent workload and analyse system behavior
• OS Tuning / Monitoring
• Put system under stress and collect results
• Define performance KPI and Metrics

Cloud Computing and its core technologies

• Cloud computing ecosystem and Cloud Native Application (preferably AWS)
• Experience with Microservices and Event-driven architectures (producers, consumers, event-channels)
• Security in the Cloud by using AWS native services or 3rd party tools (Dome9, Tenable)
• Serverless Architectures (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Step-Functions, ECS, EKS)
• AWS base service experience (EC2, AMI, S3, IAM, VPC, EBS) and Container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, EKS, ECS)
• Infrastructure-as-Code and related tools

CI/CD

• Design and implementation of Jenkins or GitLab pipelines
• Produce build in automated fashion by reducing the manual tasks
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle,
• Coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Troubleshooting

• Perform root-cause analysis for incidents and service interruptions (Mostly running OSes and CI Pipelines)

General Information:

• Start date: 16.03.2021
• Latest start date: 01.04.2021
• End date: 4 Months contract
• Extension: Planned
• Work location: Basel
• Workload: 100%
• Remote/Home Office: Yes during pandemic homeoffice / preferred candidates located in Switzerland

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