- Company Name
- Quarry Consulting
- Job Title
- AppOps Senior Specialist with AWS
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
AppOps Senior Specialist (AWS)
**Role Summary**
Senior specialist responsible for the operation, reliability, and performance of highly resilient production workloads on AWS. Lead configuration, deployment, and continuous improvement of containerized microservices, infrastructure-as-code, and monitoring solutions.
**Expectations**
- 6‑8 month contract, onsite 3 days/week.
- Deliver end‑to‑end operational excellence for production environments.
- Drive automation, incident response, and capacity planning.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Design, deploy, and maintain AWS ECS clusters, task definitions, services, autoscaling, VPC networking, ELB integration.
- Implement infrastructure-as-code with Terraform; manage code repositories with Git.
- Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines using Ansible, Python, and PowerShell scripts.
- Operate and enhance monitoring and observability with Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana; integrate alerts into ServiceNow.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies (JIRA, GitHub) and support release planning, versioning, and change management.
- Conduct root‑cause analysis, incident post‑mortems, and proactive risk mitigation.
- Collaborate with development, security, and ops teams on architecture reviews, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
- Provide documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer to support teams.
**Required Skills**
- Deep experience with AWS ECS (clusters, tasks, services, autoscaling).
- Proficiency in Terraform, Git, Ansible, Python, PowerShell.
- Containerization and microservices experience (Docker).
- Familiarity with Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, ServiceNow.
- Strong Agile methodology knowledge (JIRA, GitHub).
- Understanding of software development lifecycle: release, testing, incident, problem, change management.
- Data‑driven analysis for risk mitigation.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Preferred certifications: AWS Certifications, SRE, ITIL, DevOps relevant certifications.
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