Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer (AWS, Security, CI/CD)

US Company is searching for Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer for a team of 3-4 developers and 4-5 data maintenance specialists. Interesting project (2-3 months with an option of prolongation), preferably full-time, but this is negotiable. Flexible schedule with mandatory overlapping 8am-11am CST for communications. Remote.

BRIEF PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Developing existing set of BI products dedicated for building and constructions industry and performed Job & Cash Forecasting, Financial Reporting, Data Warehousing.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Improving existing AWS infrastructure, including security aspects.
• Assisting developers with usage of some particular AWS services, like Lambda, SQS, SNS etc.
• Improving performance of existing queries in MS SQL.
• Improving existing / developing new CI/CD in TeamCity.
• Document technical knowledge in Wiki.

REQUIRED HARD SKILLS:

• 7+ years of AWS experience:
  • EC2
  • IPA gateways
  • Lambda
  • SQS
  • SNS
• 7+ years in IT maintenance, including:
  • Virtual Machines
  • Windows DNS
• 5+ years of experience in security, including but not limited to:
  • Firewalls
  • VPNs
• 5+ years of experience with SQL
• 3+ years of experience with building and managing CI/CD pipelines
• Upper-intermediate (or higher) English

REQUIRED SOFT SKILLS:

• Attention to detail. Have an eye for both miniscule details as well as the big picture.
• Proactive.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proven time management, organizational and follow-up skills to meet deadlines.
• Abilities to effectively work and collaborate with remote colleagues.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.

WILL BE CONSIDERED AS A PLUS:

• Certificates.
• Ability to work 40 hours /week

WORK CONDITIONS:

• Distributed team: REMOTE work.
• Kanban, small team.
• Preferable full-time (40 hours per week), but minimum part-time is 20 hours per week.
• Schedule is partially adopted to CST (overlapping 8am-11am CST)
• Official contract: salary, paid holidays. Paid vacations sick-leave days in case of successful contract prolongation (for 1 year) after 2-3 months period.

Hiring process:

• Step 1 - preliminary interview (main questions) - up to 30 mins
• Step 2 - internal tech interview (tech questions) - up to 30-40 mins
• Step 3 - tech interview with team leader and architect - up to 60 mins