Job Specifications
Overview
Operating within the core values and operating principles of the organization, As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure at AAA Life Insurance Company, you will design and build business-critical infrastructure. You will take advantage of the global scale, elasticity, automation and high-availability features of the AWS platform. You will build solutions with EC2, VPC, Terraform, ECS, EKS, CloudWatch, Service Catalog, Control Tower and other AWS services. You will work across a range of areas including Web applications, Enterprise application and Data and Analytics.
Responsibilities
Design, deploy and monitor infrastructure in public clouds (AWS, Azure) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Understanding of Infrastructure as a Service, Infrastructure as Code and related concepts on public cloud.
Experience in the management and development of Terraform deploying infrastructure and applications to AWS and Azure.
Designing, orchestrating, implementing, and supporting secure and scalable infrastructure using IaaS, PaaS, and on-premise platforms.
Designing and supporting core AWS platform architectures, including:
Organizations, Account Design, VPC, Subnet, segmentation strategies
Backup and Disaster Recovery approach and design
Environment and application automation
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) automation approach/strategy
Network connectivity, Direct Connect and VPN
AWS Cost Management and Optimization
Assist in Creation and management of gold images / AMI’s
Create IAM users and groups using Terraform
Maintain availability of critical AWS Cloud infrastructure. To include configuration changes to AWS Cloud Services and shared services,
Propose, develop and support automation solutions for source code deployment and configuration management.
Managing cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines
Deploying and debugging cloud initiatives as needed in accordance with best practices throughout the development lifecycle.
Educating teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training as required.
Configure multi-factor authentication on virtual and hardware devices
Follows company Change Management processes for the implementation of changes in the Production network environment.
Resolves Help Desk tickets related to areas of assigned responsibility. Uses advanced problem analysis skills to isolate and identify user problems, including issues escalated from other team members.
Willingness to work overtime, weekends and irregular hours.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent work experience
Ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of experience in systems engineering/infrastructure development, and at least 5 years of experience with cloud platforms.
Certification(s) in administering and/or architecting cloud-based technologies is preferred e.g. AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
Solid experience with the following technologies preferred: IAM administration; EC2; S3; EBS; ELB; SES; Route 53; Lambda; AWS regions and Multi-AZ Deployments; Systems Manager; CloudWatch; Terraform; VPC Peering and VPN’s
Deep expertise/experience with Terraform and related orchestration/infrastructure-as-code services.
Knowledge of the following will help you stand out:
Experience with automation, orchestration, and configuration management tools
Understanding of networking (subnetting, routing, VPC / VNet, security groups, load balancing, etc.)
5-10 Years Cloud Services Experience:
Have at least 1 AWS Associate or Professional Certification
Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with Terraform
Scripting capability and the ability to develop AWS environments as code
Experience with Security Groups and IAM (Identity and Access Management) CloudWatch (Monitoring, Logging), Debugging and Tracing on AWS Cloud Platform)
Experience with Database, including knowledge of SQL and MySQL, and related data stores such as Postgres.
Experience with Git, and strong skills with JSON
Experience with Cloud computing Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), DNS, CDN, Load Balancing and Auto Scaling.
3-5 Years On-Premise Experience:
Solarwinds Enterprise Monitoring and Alerting
Working Knowledge of Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
VMWare ESX and vSphere
Maintaining storage systems and hyper-converged systems
About the Company
AAA Life Insurance Company is fueled by our mission of providing financial security and peace of mind to AAA members through our life insurance products, delivering on the outstanding customer service that members have come to expect from the AAA brand. Whether you purchase a policy through our trusted agents, online, over the phone, or by mail, our focus is fulfilling on the promise we make to you. Founded in 1969, AAA Life is built on the trust Americans place in the AAA brand. We are continually inspired to be a leading p...
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