LingaTech

AWS Site Reliability Engineer

Harrisburg, PA - Contracted

Location: Harrisburg, PA
Position Type: Hybrid
Hybrid/Onsite Schedule: 1 day onsite per week minimum, must be flexible to be onsite when required
Contract Length: 6 month right to hire
Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident

Position Overview:

The AWS Full Stack Architect drives the migration from the legacy mainframe to the cloud.  This position drives architectural decisions around key platforms and capabilities, architects, designs and delivers those key platforms and ensures cloud services platform performs to expected levels, responding to production problems, including investigating root cause and developing long-term solutions.

Duties:

  • Drive architectural decisions, develop guidance and best practices, and deliver technical capabilities, particularly in areas of industry expertise.

  • Manage customer expectations, influence key technical decisions, promote architectural principles, and lead communities of practice around key technologies.

  • Engineer, deliver, and support all aspects of an AWS Cloud environment in alignment with NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, and enterprise architecture and security standards.

  • Debug cloud-based distributed systems hosted on AWS.

  • Architect, engineer, deliver, and support infrastructure solutions as code (IaC) using Terraform and configuration management tools such as Ansible.

  • Lead performance management, logging, monitoring, reporting, and management of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) while ensuring compliance with security policies and audit requirements.

  • Support and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple teams or departments.

  • Promote and foster a DevOps mindset to support a transition to a Cloud-Native environment.

  • Provide architectural guidance to ensure cost-effective cloud operations and contribute to anticipated cost savings.

  • Collaborate cross-functionally with other industry experts and develop broad technical proficiency.

  • Configure key core cloud technologies such as OpenShift, Kafka, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MuleSoft, Ansible, and others as needed.

  • Recommend, design, and configure VPCs, account management structures, routing, and security protocols within the cloud infrastructure.

  • Develop high-level infrastructure architecture in collaboration with enterprise architecture, security, and application teams.

  • Create both high-level and low-level infrastructure designs in partnership with AWS, DevOps, application, and security teams.

  • Own and lead the overall infrastructure architecture for applications deployed in AWS.

  • Understand application architecture, AWS services, CI/CD pipelines, and logging/monitoring tools within AWS.

  • Participate in architecture review board (ARB) processes and obtain necessary approvals.

  • Document functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring full traceability.

  • Define and document the "definition of done" and obtain requirements sign-off.

  • Lead and document high-level architecture (HLA), high-level design (HLD), and low-level design (LLD) in collaboration with communities of practice, application teams, and security.

  • Break down work into sprint-sized tasks that can be executed by individual team members.

  • Assign story points to tasks to facilitate agile planning and execution.

  • Hold teams accountable for delivering solutions aligned with approved architecture, in collaboration with security stakeholders.

  • Provide coaching, mentorship, and technical leadership to ensure delivery aligns with application and architectural requirements.


Required Skills:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, and 7–10 years of experience in infrastructure support, delivery, engineering, and architecture

    • Includes 5+ years of experience in cloud design, configuration, and support (AWS preferred)

    • Equivalent combination of education, certifications, and/or relevant experience may be considered

  • Demonstrated experience working with FedRAMP and Federal Student Aid environments

  • Strong experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), including CI/CD pipeline implementation and maintenance

  • Advanced experience in DevOps and DevSecOps environments

  • Familiarity with SAFe Agile methodologies and tools such as Atlassian JIRA

  • Deep expertise with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including:

    • Billing

    • Core cloud technologies

    • Redshift

    • Elastic Load Balancers (ELB/ALB)

    • Performance management and monitoring with CloudWatch

    • Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)

  • Advanced experience with Azure Core, tenancy management, and billing

  • Proficiency with MongoDB

  • Advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL and NoSQL database technologies

  • Experience with container technologies such as OpenShift, Docker, and Kubernetes

  • Proficiency with IT automation tools like Ansible

  • Advanced experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including:

    • Terraform

    • Ansible

    • Scripting in Python, Bash, Perl, etc.

  • Expertise in MuleSoft, JBoss, Kafka, and API Gateways

  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

  • Ability to stay current and act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) in one or more of the following areas:

    • AWS Core and IaC

    • Kafka

    • NoSQL databases

  • Availability to provide final-tier support for a 24x7x365 operational environment

  • Experience mentoring, coaching, and training team members in areas of industry expertise

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