AWS System Operations Engineer

We are recruiting an experience AWS System Op's Engineer to work for a Global Pharmaceutical Manufacturer based in Macclesfield.

The role is;

- Work with developers to ensure the server environments are implemented properly.
- Prepare and maintain system architecture documentation, status logs and reports
- Monitor system usage/performance, plan and forecast future capacity needs.
- Lead/contribute to infrastructure, design and cloud services decisions
- Create and maintain backup strategy including creating AMIs and snapshots and purging old backups.
- Create and maintain custom AMIs for Hardend OSs
- Create and maintain automated deployments and builds of applications and software (chef recipes)
- Manage and maintain the cloud environment and the security of the VPC.(security groups, subnets, ACLs)

Successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following;

- Hands-on experience using AWS Infrastructure (EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, EMR, ELB, Cloudwatch, CloudTrail, SNS, ElasticBeanstalk)
- Good understanding of AWS Security (VPC, IAM, EC2 Roles, S3 & SQS policies)
- Hands-on experience with AWS deployment (Chef/Puppet, Cloud formation)
- Cloud design for scalability, elasticity and high availability
- Experience in maintaining Linux Servers/virtual machines
- Experience in working in agile teams using methodologies such as SCRUM

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