Position: DevOps Specialist AWS (Applied Materials)
Company: SD Solutions
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

For our key client **Applied Materials**, SD Solutions is looking for a **Cloud Automation & DevOps Specialist (AWS)** who wants to work in a big admired company!

**What are we doing?**

**Applied Materials** has transformed from a small start-up into one of the most admired companies in the world and put the “silicon” in Silicon Valley, playing a key role in the evolution of the electronics industry.

Over the last 50 years, the company have been making products such as computers, mobile devices, and flat panel displays possible and affordable for millions of people around the globe.
Its expertise in materials engineering is at the foundation of the incredible breakthroughs turning future trends, including AI, Big Data, autonomous vehicles, AR/VR and the Internet of Everything, into realities.
Applied Materials develop highly sophisticated manufacturing and process technologies to build the world’s most complex chips and displays.

The company enables its customers to build a wide range of advanced products, including:

- Larger capacity and faster memory chips;
- More efficient, faster, and highly integrated processors;
- Super high-resolution displays;
- Flexible electronics.

**What will you do with us?**

- Lead, architect and develop technical solutions for various on premise and Cloud-based requirements, container orchestration platforms, and application integration, including machine learning and deep learning solutions.
- Optimize, enhance and support applications in the design and deployment of scalable and highly available solutions.
- Provide the overall technical design, pertaining to the infrastructure elements, integration, connectivity, and hosting.
- Specialize in the best practice design, operations, and support of private/public/hybrid cloud infrastructure including Network, Storage, Data Protection, Compute and Security.
- Develop, test and automate the deployment of new Cloud Infrastructure technologies leveraging agile methods using Infrastructure as a code (IaC).
- Ensure the proposed design aligns with Application, Enterprise, and Security architecture as well as the other Applied Materials policies and framework.
- Recommend new services to complement and enhance infrastructure elements to streamline and support application development and deployment.
- Identify potential and emerging technologies relevant to innovation for Applied Materials.
- Implement, support, and evaluate Cloud services, develop and interoperate security policies and procedures, and advise and consult on risk assessments.

**What hard skills do we need?**

- **6+ years** of experience as a DevOps Engineer in designing/implementing large-scale private/public/hybrid cloud or virtualization infrastructure solutions.
- A degree in Computer Science or equivalent Engineering degree.
- Professional certifications with **3+ years** of hands-on implementation experience in **AWS** Cloud.
- Manage AWS organizational accounts of production and non-prod environments with multiple Regions, VPCs and carried key duties of automation, cost optimization, health checks and builds.
- Advanced experience with Automation, Orchestration, and implementation solutions using IaC (Terraform, Ansible).
- Implementation and management of main AWS services in the following areas: Compute, Storage, Database, Serverless, Kubernetes and Containers.
- Experience with Version Control Systems and working with DevOps tools such as GIT, GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus, Artifactory.
- Good scripting (Bash, Python, Powershell).
- Ability to write document specs, maintenance procedures.
- Strong working knowledge and ability to apply architecture concepts, frameworks, and methodologies to projects.

**Advantages:**

- Experience with Multi-Cloud implementation (AWS, Azure).
- Strong experience with Linux administration.

**What soft skills do we appreciate?**

- Good written and verbal communication and presentation skills, able to interact professionally with all levels of the organization.
- Self-motivated, approachable, and adaptable.