Aws/Cloud Engineer

Open Systems Technologies is a national provider of smart staffing solutions, providing contract staffing, permanent placements and executive searches in the following skill areas:

- Technology

- Finance, Accounting, and Operations

- Government Services

- Legal

- Global Services

Established in New York in 1990, Open Systems Technologies is one of the largest, privately held, staffing companies in the world. We have experienced organic growth over the past 25 years and currently employ over 1,500 consultants in 16 domestic and international markets. Through our brands of Open Systems, OST Financial, OST Legal, OST Government Services, and OST Global we strive for continued expansion and excellence in the staffing industry. With the Global Services division, starting Jan-2012, Open Systems has expanded into the ITO & BPO Projects/Solutions business.

Responsibilities

• Create a strategy for establishing a secure and well-managed enterprise environment in AWS
• Merge enterprise CentOS and Windows build requirements with Amazon native AMIs and integration with Amazon native tooling
• Configure and manage MLP's VPC at AWS, establish core services in the VPC, enabling AWS to serve as a part of MLP's network
• Establish a patch management strategy for the cloud
• Lead design process for network connectivity to AWS including necessary bandwidth and exploration of various interconnection options
• Extension of MLP standard systems management processes into the cloud including change, incident, and problem management
• Establish internal pricing and instance selection model for EC2
• Establish storage use cases and service catalog including usage of ephemeral storage, EBS, S3 and Glacier
• Integrate AWS management tooling with MLP including automation of spin-up and spin-down and billing approvals
• Design and implementation of data protection options, including HA and BCP protection at AWS

Skills Required

• 10+ years of experience as a full time IT professional
• 5+ years of experience designing and supporting AWS environments
• Experience deploying enterprise workloads to AWS
• Proficient with Python, Perl, Unix shell, or other scripting languages
• Thorough knowledge of configuration management tooling for Linux based environments
• Hands-on experience with one or more configuration management systems such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
• Hands-on experience utilizing Amazon Web Services API Extensive experience managing enterprise on premise compute implementations
• Experience designing, deploying and supporting enterprise core services
• Extensive knowledge of Unix operating systems
• Knowledge of at least one other cloud hosting solution in addition to AWS

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.