Automation Engineer------------NEED

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Automation Engineer CHICAGO, IL CONTRACT MUST HAVE SUPERB COMM SKILLS AWS, EC2, CloudWatch, ELB, S3, VPC, CodeCommit/git, Route53 DNS, Jira, SDLC Technical Requirements • Understanding of SDLC • Understanding of Configuration Management • Understanding of High Availability services concepts • Functional knowledge of Database concepts • AWS, CloudWatch, ELB, S3, VPC, CodeCommit/git, Route53 DNS • Strong capabilities in scripting (Python, PowerShell, AWS CLI), Infrastructure as Code Preferred • Automation Frameworks (Chef, Ansible, or similar) • Caching technologies (Redis) • Experienced in Application Performance Management (App Dynamics, New Relic, etc) • Jira, Confluence Job Description In this role, your key area of focus will be enabling infrastructure automation and support for mission critical systems. The team’s goal is to provision environments through automation, industry standards and best practices. Key to success is the need for ensuring the health and monitoring of our mission critical systems. You will work collaboratively with other Application Operations team members, Architects and Software Engineers in this endeavor. Duties and Responsibilities • Identify, develop, implement and improve infrastructure/operations activities for automation with Cloud experience, particularly with AWS • Monitor, mitigate issues and administer a growing production footprint with diverse applications • Troubleshoot and resolve issues in all environments through proven detail-oriented analysis in root cause scenarios and technical deep dives • Contribute to team efforts to maintain processes and tools for infrastructure, monitoring and operations with clear documentation • Create and refine tools and scripts to both monitor and measure application performance • Implement strategies for optimization, high availability and recovery • Ability to communicate well with multiple cross functional stakeholders • Efficiently manage multiple work streams with clear and proactive communication of status, as both a self-starter and a team player. • AWS Experience in EC2, CloudWatch, ELB, S3, VPC, CodeCommit/git, Route53 DNS, Jira, SDLC Education and Training AWS Certification (preferably, SysOps), Lambda, Beanstalk, ACM, Workspaces (preferred) Professional Experience • AWS Experience in EC2, CloudWatch, ELB, S3, VPC, CodeCommit/git, Route53 DNS • Strong automation mindset based on past success • Ability to provide automation guidance to team members and developers • Strong Windows and Linux administration background • Strong understanding of infrastructure operations best practices, including experience in IT Operations in a highly available model • Strong Web Server experience in IIS, Apache, Tomcat • Experienced in troubleshooting and debugging Knowledge and Abilities • Availability to support systems on-call after hours on a rotation • Strong ability to learn and use new technologies and frameworks • Communications capabilities to bridge the gap between development/release, operations and architecture to ensure alignment of technology strategy, best practices and successful delivery. If you are interested please share your resume to preethib (at)usmsystems(dot)com or can directly call me on 703 468 0398. USM Business Systems Inc. is a quickly developing worldwide System Integrator, Software and Product Development, IT Outsourcing and Technology assistance supplier headquartered in Chantilly, VA with off-shore delivery centers in India. We offer world-class ability in giving most astounding quality and administrations through industry best practices planned to convey remarkable worth to our customers. Utilizing our industry knowledge, administration service offering expertise and innovation abilities, we distinguish new business and innovation slants and create answers for help customers around the globe, giving top of the line solid and practical IT benefits which are cost effective services. Established in 1999, the organization has corner qualities in building and dealing with a Business Oriented IT environment with rich involvement in technology innovation, ERP and CRM counselling, Product Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Management, SOA, BPM, Data Warehousing, SharePoint Consulting and IT Infrastructure. Our other offerings include modified solutions and administrations in ERP, CRM, Enterprise architecture, offshore advisory services ,e-commerce, Social , Mobile, Cloud, Analytics (SMAC) and DevOps. USM, a US ensured Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) is perceived as one of the fastest developing IT Systems Integrator in the Washington, DC zone. Most as of late, USM was positioned #9 on the rundown of the Top administrations organizations in the DC Metro Area – Washington Business Journal (2011). We are a project-driven firm that reliably meets the IT needs of our State and Government customers through development and business keenness.