Cloud Devops 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

• Creation of an overarching strategy for establishing a secure and well-managed enterprise environment in a public cloud provider
• Drive Identity and Access Management, configuration management, and monitoring strategy for AWS
• Merging of enterprise CentOS and Windows build requirements with Amazon native AMIs and integration with Amazon native tooling
• Development of code to drive the automated deployment of application environments leveraging both off and on premise services
• Creation and delivery of development focused services both off and on premise that can be consumed via automated methods
• Establishment of core functions such as patching, lifecycle, capacity and demand management for cloud services
• Lead design process for network connectivity to AWS including necessary bandwidth and exploration of various interconnection options
• Extension of standard systems management processes into the cloud including change, incident, and problem management
• Establishment and implementation of monitoring and performance management infrastructure for both availability and performance management
• Establishment of a cost-based chargeback model, including different configurations of hardware, and incorporating application predicted elasticity
• Establishment of storage use cases and service catalog including usage of ephemeral storage, EBS, S3, and Glacier
• Integration of AWS management tooling 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

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a full time IT professional
• 3+ years of experience designing and supporting AWS environments
• Candidates must have a minimum of Bachelor's degree (in Computer Science, Math or Engineering)
• Demonstrable experience deploying enterprise workloads to AWS
• Optional but highly desired: knowledge of at least one other cloud hosting solution in addition to AWS (e.g. Google, Azure, Helion Cloud, SoftLayer)
• Hands-on experience with traditional virtualized services and infrastructure (VMWare, Hyper-V) and managing enterprise on-premise compute implementations
• Hands-on experience with one or more configuration management systems such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
• Thorough understanding of test driven development practices, CI/CD, and managing infrastructure as code
• Hands-on experience utilizing Amazon Web Services API
• Proficiency with Python, PowerShell, Perl, Unix shell, or other scripting languages
• Experience designing and supporting enterprise core services as well as cloud deployments of these services
• Extensive knowledge of Unix operating systems, especially RHEL/CentOS
• Working and integration with technology, development, and business teams

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