Responsibilities

• Design the architecture for hosting applications on AWS based on customer needs
  
• Setup, deploy and manage applications on AWS
  
• Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize the performance using solutions like database indexes, Varnish, Memcache, Redis , CloudFront etc
  
• Implement auto-scaling
  
• Automate deployments(CI&CD) & other repetitive tasks using shell/Python scripts or tools like Capistrano, Jenkins, CodeDeploy etc
  
• Configure centralized configuration management using tools like Chef/OpsWorks, Puppet, Ansible etc
  
• Implement automated backups
  
• Configure automated alerts/alarms and act on any outages/incidents
  
• Ensure that the infrastructure is secured and can be accessed from limited IPs and ports
  
• Manage permissions, backup and performance across different databases like MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres etc
  
• Coordinate with development teams to fix issues, release new code
  
• Manage teams across multiple projects
  
• Understand client requirements, propose solutions and ensure delivery
  
• Innovate and actively look for improvements in overall infrastructure

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree, with 2+ years experience in System Administration with at least 1+ year experience in AWS 
  
• Should have worked on various AWS services like: EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudTrail etc
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  
• Well-versed with shell scripting
  
• Well-versed with Web-Servers (Nginx, Apache etc)
  
• Self-starter and ability to deliver under tight timelines
  
• Comfortable to contribute both as a lead as well as an individual
  

Good to have:

• Exposure to various tools like Nagios, NewRelic, Loggly, Log Stash, Chef, Puppet, Ansible , DataDog, Splunk, JIRA, Confluence, Tr ac, Wiki etc
  
• Prior experience in managing infrastructure for public facing web-applications.
  
• Prior experience in handling client communications
  
• Knowledge of programming languages and databases