Greetings ,
I hope you are doing well,
I'm Swaroop from Softpath Technologies, based in Northville, MI. I'm reaching out regarding a job opportunity in Detroit, MI. with one of our esteemed clients. If you are currently available in the job market and interested in exploring this opportunity, please feel free to reach out to me via email at or contact me at | EXT: 821.
Senior AWS Engineer
Location: Reston, VA (Hybrid).
Duration: 12 months with possible extension upto 12 months
Note: Client is looking for (for Incident Triage & Monitoring) experience.
Description:
In this incident management function, manage incidents to resolution in a 24/7/365 environment using the Client incident management processes, effectively guide incident and triage calls from a technical perspective, share technical details obtained from monitoring tools and dashboards to aid troubleshooting, outline details of resolution activities, recommend and implement improved processes, provide timely status updates to stakeholders, assist with postmortem related activities and support various efforts related to operational improvements.
Manage efforts to maintain application in production, including troubleshooting stoppages, repairing bugs, documenting application performance, and coordinating with technology infrastructure management.
KEY JOB FUNCTIONS
Excellent communicator who can manage IT incidents to resolution in a 24/7/365 environment using the client incident management processes and communicate management of incident status, impact and resolution actions.
Hands on experience managing and monitoring applications deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Troubleshooting and resolving incidents on the AWS cloud infrastructure.
Experience with building tools for monitoring and troubleshooting of system resources in an AWS environment.
Ability to triage AWS related incidents using monitoring tools on AWS Cloud.
Experience with performance engineering of AWS Cloud applications.
Hands on experience working with AWS tools like EC2, ELB, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, Aurora, Route53, ECS, Lambada, S3, Batch, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, WAF etc.
Hands on experience with transaction level monitoring using Dynatrace and Splunk.
Ability to perform transaction level monitoring and troubleshooting in AWS cloud platform.
Eyes on glass monitoring of the health of applications as well as the underlying infrastructure.
Monitoring experience with tools like Extrahop, SolarWinds, Netcool suite, Catchpoint, MoogSoft.
Ability to analyze dashboards and reporting/monitoring tools to look at trends and patterns in application health and performance.
Proactively looking for hardware, software, and environmental alerts or malfunctions.
Effectively lead and guide Incident triage calls from a technical perspective analyzing different components of the infrastructure and application environment via the use of a variety of monitoring tools and processes.
Troubleshoot the incidents and identify root cause quickly using operations, wire data analytics, application performance management and event correlation monitoring tools.
Perform analysis of data, evaluating multiple application protocols including web, database, storage, and supporting infrastructure such as AWS, UNIX, DNS, LDAP, SSL, SMTP, and FTP.
Influence other technical teams on the calls and articulate troubleshooting steps effectively.
Lead required technical follow-up calls for critical incidents.
Assist with documentation of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) or Correction of Errors (COE) and data quality for all ECC communicated incidents.
Ensure appropriate functional and management escalation takes place as per the standards and procedures.
Follow up on items that could potentially negatively impact production operations, assist with postmortem related activities and support various efforts related to operational improvements.
Based on recommendations from management, implement new and improved processes, change processes, perform new tasks, create reports and address ad-hoc requests.
Ability to report incident details and metrics to senior leadership.
EDUCATION
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent required.
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE
10+ years of related experience
SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
10+ years of working experience with different IT Infrastructure components such as Unix/ Linux Servers, Wintel Servers, AWS, networks, firewalls, routers, load balancers, VPN, Apache, web logic, LDAP, Active Directory, Exchange, Oracle/MS SQL databases, SAN, Virtualization, Email systems, Enterprise monitoring and access management solutions for single sign on.
Subject matter expertise is not required and experience with at least eight of the above is preferred.
Senior level hands-on working experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Understanding different layers of the AWS Infrastructure e.g.
WAF, R53, CloudFront, Load Balancing, HA features.
Proven methodical approach to problem identification, monitoring, problem solving and resolution.
Ability to analyze different components of the infrastructure and application environments during Incident triage calls.
Ability to trace transaction failures and debug the root cause in various layers of the AWS infrastructure and services.
Aptitude to influence other technical teams on incident calls & articulate troubleshooting steps effectively.
Experience & confidence working with all levels of management; excellent written and verbal skills.
Able to quickly and concisely communicate with senior management on technical issues in non-technical terms and to run large conference calls during Incident calls with a wide range of personnel and management levels.
Strong relationship management skills and aptitude to multi-task and work well in a high stress environment, both within teams and independently.
AWS Solution Architect Associate or higher certification
Monitoring and observability experience.
Experience with monitoring dashboards for incident detection and alerting.
Perform end-to-end analysis of transactions under an observability environment.
Troubleshoot incidents and identify root cause quickly using wire data analytics, application performance management and event correlation monitoring tools.
Diagnose and resolve incidents by providing factual data from the various monitoring and instrumentation systems.
Monitor applications and infrastructure using tools like Splunk, DynaTrace, OpenTel, Catchpoint, xMatters, SignalFx, xMatters, SolarWinds, Extrahop etc.
Preferred Qualifications:
Management and troubleshooting of Middleware products on UNIX and Linux environments. Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Java etc.
Prior Fannie Mae or Financial industry experience.
Experience with OpenTel
What we are seeking:
We are looking for candidates with expert level knowledge in AWS infrastructure and various AWS services.
The key focus for this position is application triage, transaction tracing in various layers of AWS infrastructure, log analysis, diagnosis of issues using AWS Console and other monitoring tools, sharing analysis with wider audience during incident calls, strong communication.
We are not looking for candidates with only development or deployment experience in AWS.
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Swaroop
Sr. US IT Recruiter
Email:
Contact | EXT: 821
SOFTPATH TECH SOLUTIONS PVT LTD