AWS Engineer: Remote* (Amazon Web Services), Puppet, Devops

*REMOTE* AWS Cloud Engineer: (Amazon Web Services), Puppet, DevOps

This role will be largely remote with occasional visits to Belgium for meetings. Therefore the successful candidate must be an EU member.

A world renowned pharmaceutical organisation with offices in Belgium are seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer with strong experience in both DevOps Automation and security in the Cloud.

Main responsibilities include;

*Cloud Engineering & Security
*Build and maintain reliable infrastructure and security services in AWS to deliver highly available and scalable services. Use native AWS infrastructure services such as EC2, EBS, Auto Scaling, Cloudwatch, etc.
*Advanced System administration tasks such as configuring Servers and applications, automating routine tasks, backup/restore, etc.
*Provision and maintain accounts in AWS, issue VPN certificates, install SSH keys, etc.
*Serve on the on-call team, and as an escalation contact for service incidents

DevOps
*Build engineering automation and productivity tools to streamline and scale applications across all environments.
*Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to application development, deployment and operations.
*Work collaboratively with all participants in agile software development project and support developers and testers as they set up their build Dev/Test environments.
*Automate everything to minimize manual work and meet security and compliance objectives in all aspects of the secure cloud ecosystem.
*Integrating automated software tests with the build process
*Script with deployment automation tools eg Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.
*Implement automated high-availability deployments
*Become proficient in understanding how each software component, system design and configuration is linked together to form an end-to-end solution

Requirements:
*Minimum of 3 years as a DevOps/Sys Engineer (or similar position) in a production capacity
*Strong understanding and knowledge of Linux, Automation Tools (Chef or Puppet), AWS Services (EC2, Network, ELB, S3/EBS, etc.) or similar Public Cloud platform, and Scripting languages (Ruby, Perl, PowerShell or other).
*Knowledge of SQL & NoSQL databases
*Hands-on experience in working with security systems including Firewalls, intrusion protection/detection systems, anti-virus software, authentication systems, log management and content filtering etc.
*Knowledge of security concepts such as (cloud) Authentication, Authorization, web attacks (DDOS, SQL injections, person-in-the-middle, etc), securing web application, payload encryption & decryption, environment security, etc.
*Strong understanding of network concepts including TCP/IP, HTTP and TLS.
*Experience with orchestration tools such as Puppet, Chef or Ansible.
*A track record of delivering IT and application automation using these automation tools.
*Experience designing/deploying highly available Middleware or application components.
*A willingness to be flexible in responding to customer issues as they occur, and the ability to identify product/deployment improvements to mitigate future occurrences.
*Experience with cloud hosted apps/service, AWS experience required, and able to translate business requirements into securely implemented capabilities in the Cloud
*Deep understanding of version control systems (svn, Git, etc.), including branching and merging strategies
*Possess knowledge of systems infrastructure with domain expertise in areas such as networking, storage, high availability, cloud security, application performance, etc.
*Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related degree.