Key skills
AWS EC2AWS S3AWS LambdaAWS RDSAWS CloudFormationTerraformGitHub ActionsSQL Server DevOpsTableauPython scriptingBash scriptingPowerShell scriptingAWS security best practicesPythonSQLBashPowerShellAWSDockerAnsibleCloudFormationEC2LambdaS3RDSCloudWatchSQL ServerPrometheusGrafanaGitHubVersion ControlCI/CDCollaboration
About this role
Conexess Group is aiding a large healthcare client in their search for an AWS DevOps Engineer in a remote capacity. The role involves designing, implementing, and managing scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS, while optimizing workflows for efficient deployments and data integration.
Responsibilities:
- AWS Infrastructure Management: Design, implement, and manage scalable cloud environments on AWS, leveraging best practices for cost management, security, and performance
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring environments are reproducible, version-controlled, and automated
- CI/CD Pipelines: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to automate application deployments, infrastructure provisioning, and testing
- SQL Server DevOps: Implement DevOps practices for SQL Server, including automated backups, monitoring, patching, and version-controlled database changes
- Data Integration and Visualization: Collaborate with data teams to ensure seamless data integration, and provide visualization support using Tableau to enhance decision-making and reporting
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high availability and rapid response to incidents
- Collaboration and Documentation: Work closely with development, QA, and data teams to align on requirements and document processes, best practices, and improvements
Requirements:
- Experience with AWS: Proficient in AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, and CloudFormation
- Terraform: Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, including module creation, state management, and best practices
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions: Expertise in GitHub Actions for building CI/CD pipelines, including artifact management, environment setup, and multi-environment deployment workflows
- SQL Server DevOps: Experience with SQL Server in DevOps environments, focusing on backup automation, database migrations, and version control
- Data Visualization with Tableau: Ability to design and manage Tableau dashboards, data connections, and data sources to provide actionable insights
- Scripting and Automation: Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation and process improvements
- Security Best Practices: Knowledge of security principles and best practices within AWS and DevOps environments
- Experience with other IaC tools (e.g., CloudFormation, Ansible)
- Familiarity with Docker and containerization
- Strong understanding of networking and VPC configurations on AWS
- Experience with monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana, or Prometheus