Job Description :
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Role Information
Position
AWS Data Engineer
Duration of project
12 months+
Location
Downtown Seattle
Start date
asap
What is the project?
AWS – is moving off OBIEE and this is the last push to get off Oracle and OBIEE extracted from Amazon. This project is for global sales operations to migrate to Tableau/ & QuickSite on the front end and RedShift/AWS data stack on the backend. There is current personnel working on it and new contractors will be working with 4+ pods (5-8) people each. They are reporting on a data set of trillions of records that needs to be moved to AWS with RedShift as a staged reporting solution. They will taking advantage of all virtues of RedShift with some other interesting approaches to DW to ensure strong performance & reliability.
What will you be doing?
Work as part of a team, to design and develop cloud data solutions
Be versed in Amazon Web Services cloud solutions, architecture, related technologies and their inter-dependencies
Research, analyze, recommend and select technical approaches for solving difficult and challenging development and integration problems
Understand business goals and drivers and translate those into an appropriate technical solution
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What’s your story?
3+ years architecting and implementing Amazon Web Services infrastructure and topologies
Project experience implementing core infrastructure, networking and cloud-based services for business teams or consumers
Experience in various AWS services: S3, Redshift, EMR, DynamoDB
Strong analytical problem-solving ability
Self-starter with the ability to work independently or as part of a project team
B.S. in Computer Science, related fields or commensurate work experience
Capability to perform Performance analysis, troubleshooting, and remediation
Knowledge of High Availability and Disaster Recovery principles, patterns and usage
Understanding of cloud ecosystem and leading-edge cloud emerging technologies
Experience working with the scale of trillions of records
RedShift is preferred but if someone has previous data modeling or data warehousing experience with record sets of similar scale that is viable. ie. Teradata
More important to be a strong engineer with good communications skills
Interview process: open to people out of the area if they can be here after 2-3 weeks from start. Will hire out of town people that can come here by VTC interview