SR. AWS Site Reliability Engineer

Required Skillset:

Manage and optimize data streaming and API components in AWS or Onpremise.
Proactively review the application�s APIs and processes to identify opportunities to optimize the response times for various application components.
Automate various types of testing including data quality checks, automate delivery to production and automate deployment for production
Develop integrations between the application in Onpremise and AWS and our third-party tools (ServiceNow, VersionOne, Sumo)
Work with teams to create SLI/SLO�s
Actively monitor and lead troubleshooting of degraded performance and hard to define issues for the platform applications, develop the solution and document artifacts in the back log from root cause analysis.
Evolve the cloud infrastructure ecosystem for our application suite by experimenting with emerging technologies and completing prototypes to understand benefit
Design and develop CI/CD pipeline to deploy various application artifacts, including APIs and Data Process Jobs.
Analyze, design and develop the artifacts to configure the monitoring and alerting metrics so the support engineers can proactively and timely validate, troubleshoot and resolve the issues.
Maintain data integrity and access control by using AWS security tools and services such as HSM, IAM, etc.
Understand and develop tools to monitor AWS billing for the services, generate cost related reports and help develop and implement cost optimization strategies.
Work with enterprise security architects to design and implement data security tools, measures, data encryption, key management; design and develop solutions to address the security vulnerabilities discovered by internal security audit team, as well as by the vendors, security community, etc.; design and develop solutions for support team to regularly scan and review to fix security issues
Regularly and proactively monitor and analyze the capacity and performance of the platform, work with architecture team to design and implement elastic infrastructure to accommodate the irregular burst of user traffic/requests.
Work with architecture team to develop backup strategy and implement the backup solution for critical data and application components for service restoration and disaster recovery purpose.
Work with architecture, infrastructure, and application teams to provide input on continuous improvement on the design, performance and security enhancements.
Desired Skillset:

Deep understanding of the operations of AWS cloud platforms.
Must be well versed in the automation, scripting, monitoring, including use of tools from the major cloud platforms, including but not limited to OpenShift Cloud Formation, Terraform, Ansible, Shell, Python
Preferable for candidates with significant technical knowledge with infrastructure layers, including but not limited to: Linux OS, major virtualization platforms, Traditional and software defined network, Load Balancers, firewall, API tools, element/performance/intelligent monitoring tools, storage, backup strategy, etc.
Significant knowledge and experience in end to end operations for enterprise systems and applications, including driving issue resolution for mission critical systems.
Must have experience working to automate, operationalize and improve the Development/QA using CI/CD tools (Gitlab, Github, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, Nexus)
Working experience with Software Release Management.
Desired Qualification:

BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.