Linux Cloud Engineer (No C2C/Sponsorship)

Our Preferred Client is looking for a Linux Cloud Engineer with a strong background in cloud hosting and scripting/automation. Ideally, you have mastered a few technologies but have exposure to a much larger number and are comfortable trying different things out. This position requires candidates be residents of the Pittsburgh area.Responsibilities

• Configuring, maintaining, securing CentOS, Amazon Linux, and Ubuntu servers hosted in physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
• Experience building distributed, failure-resistant architecture, including disaster recovery, backups, failover, etc.
• Leverage shell scripting and open-source tools to automate redundant/simple tasks.
• Assist in maintaining documentation for systems and procedures.
• Analyzes, logs, tracks, and resolves incidents about networking connectivity issues, servers, and applications.
• Provide 24x7x365 on-call coverage in a rotating schedule.
• Collaborate with members of the team on projects and software deployments.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience required.
• Minimum 2 year’s experience with various DevOps open-source tools such as Ansible, Terraform Git, Zabbix, Netdata, and Jenkins.
• Ability to create and support Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments (VPC, EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, Cloud Formation, etc.).
• Experience with containers: Docker and
  Kubernetes
• Strong understanding and implementation of software and process protection methods to guard against security breaches and intrusion.
• Experience with monitoring tools: Kibana, Grafana, Zabbix, Vivid Cortex, Netdata, and CloudWatch.
• Assist in the administration of databases including Oracle, MySQL, and Postgres.
• Motivated, responsible, focused, analytical, self-starter, team player, able to communicate clearly and effectively with others on-site and at other remote locations.