Job Description :
Position : AWS Platform Engineer
Location : LA,CA
JobType : Fulltime/Contract
Responsibilities:
Involve in platform support activities for various AWS components like Terraform, Redshift, RDS, EC2, AWS S3 bucket and Glue
Knowledge on managing platforms ( custom & 3rd party solutions on AWS), which will be monitoring of jobs, learn and manage admins console of 3rd party software
Experience in working with software vendors for bug fixes, patch management, etc.
Preferred but not required – Any kind of working knowledge of Attunity, Cisco DV and Alation.
Maintain S3 bucket policies, involve in copying files from source systems to S3 buckets
Restore EC2 instances from AMI
Assign IAM Roles and Policies to Users, Security Groups by using Identity and Access Management
Setup new redshift cluster with desired configuration
Manage manual/automated backups and create snapshots of RDS/Redshift where-ever is required
Restore RDS database from backups and snapshots created
Working with EBS volumes and snapshots
Monitor cloud watch notification and respond to the alarms within committed SLA time
Monitor performance of cluster and suggest tuning as required
AWS Specialization:
5+ years of experience in infrastructure support with minimum 3 years of experience in AWS platform support
3+ years in data engineering plus a Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience combined with a Bachelor’s degree
Extensive experience in administration activities on AWS redshift and RDS
Extensive experience in handling AWS S3 bucket policies and handling user groups using Identity and Access Management
Good exposure on maintaining AWS EC2 instance
Good exposure to automated monitoring tools within RDS and Cloud Watch to monitor the activities of AWS RDS instances.
Good understanding on Vacuum and Analyze utility and suggest for optimized data storage.