Position: Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Company: Zfort Group
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 1y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

Your main tasks would be directly supporting the users, administering production and testing environments (residing in AWS), and taking care of the resources (public & private) for all environments (residing in AWS and/or Azure).

**Responsibilities:**
Configure, test, deploy, and upgrade software for production in AWS;
Control EC2 instance lifecycle and other AWS resources using Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g. Terraform);
Respond to monitoring alerts and incidents;
Ensure security through access controls, firewalls, VPNs, and audit logging;
Author and recommend settings to improve performance, security, and reliability (for applications, operating systems, networks, and cloud services);
Participate in design, implementation, and execution of backup and disaster recovery plan for infrastructure solutions;
Set up and manage user accounts, login restrictions, and PaaS-based application permissions;
Contribute to internal technical documentation, manuals, and IT policies;
Document problem status and resolution;
Develop plans and perform routine maintenance tasks for infrastructure systems (e.g. patch management, application hotfixes);
Generate Vulnerability Management & Resolution reports;
Develop expertise to train staff on new technologies;
Adapting to on-call and/or shifted working schedule;

**Requirements:**
Excellent communicator with a problem-solving mindset;
Always accurate and attentive to details;
Ex: System Administrator, Network Administrator, or similar;
Experience with key cloud platforms/providers (Amazon Web Service, GCP, and Azure) - AWS highly preferred;
Solid working knowledge of Linux and OS/X (Windows is a plus);
Ability to create scripts in modern languages like Python/PHP etc.;
Understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, NAT, routing, and related networking protocols, technologies, and security-related protocols (SSH, HTTPS, IPsec, etc.);
Experience using source control/repositories (Git, GitHub) and workflow tools (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, Slack, TeamCity, etc.);
24×7 production operations experience, preferably supporting a highly available environment for a SaaS/PaaS or cloud service provider;
Understanding of AWS security concepts including VPC, VPN, EC2, CodePipeline, IAM, and others to protect data-at-rest and in-transit via encryption is highly desirable.

**Will be a plus:**
HashiCorp’s Terraform experience;
Working knowledge of containers (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/ECR, etc);
Experience with passive (e.g. compliance audits) and active evaluations (e.g. vulnerability assessments).