Open Shift/Container Engineer (Temporary to Permanent)

THE ROLE

We want you to help strengthen our AWS Professional Services team.

In this role, you will be responsible for providing engineering support during the sales cycle, act as a subject matter expert where needed, and ultimately for deploying Privo solutions in AWS.

PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

� Engage in AWS engineering work (including designing and deploying complicated solutions) for clients
� Be the face of Privo with your clients - an over the top communicator (on the phone and video calls) and analytical thinker to guide client decision making during a project, interact successfully with vendors and other IT personnel, and ensure Privo is always moving the ball forward
� Be an AWS platform expert in the �core� infrastructure areas (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, etc.)
� Maintain expertise in a subset of Privo strategic AWS services (WorkSpaces, AppStream, ECS, CodeDeploy, EMR, Batch, SageMaker, etc.)
� Act a subject matter expert as needed to support engineers engaged with Privo Managed Services client portfolio, and help out with solution design and scoping for the sales team as needed
� Be a consultant and leverage your brain at every step of the engagement to deliver the best solution possible for the client
� Own your projects, own your decisions, and take pride in doing the best job you can
� Contribute to Privo codebase with CloudFormation, Terraform, or potentially other automation and scripting languages
� Acquire and maintain all 5 of the �core� AWS certifications (Solutions Architect - Associate, Solutions Architect - Developer, SysOps Administrator - Associate, Solutions Architect - Professional, DevOps Engineer - Professional)
� Dedicate roughly 65% of your time to engineering tasks
� Contribute to Privo ever-growing knowledge base
� Occasionally contribute to Privo marketing outreach efforts in the form of blog posts, webinars, in-person events, etc.
� Work independently and as part of a team
� Participate in an on-call rotation for emergency support issues
� Never stop learning, and push outside your comfort zone
� Contribute positively to the kick ass Privo culture!

REQUIREMENTS
� Expertise with OpenShift container platform
� 10+ years of IT infrastructure experience overall
� 5+ years working with the Microsoft server stack - Server, Exchange, SQL, Remote Desktop, etc.
� Alternatively, 5+ years working with Linux administration (DNS, LDAP, web servers like apache and nginx, package management, etc.)
� 3+ years of experience in technology consulting, enterprise, and solutions architecture (preferably in AWS)
� At least 1 Associate Level AWS certification (Certified Solutions Architect, for example)
� Deep expertise in at least one of the following areas of traditional IT infrastructure: storage, firewalls, networking, hypervisor, VDI, database administration, web apps
� Experience working on large scale IT projects related to design, deployment, and configuration
� Proven track record of delivering solutions within defined timeframes
� Any experience administering services on AWS (EC2, VPC, ECS, S3, ELB, RDS, Route53, WorkSpaces, AppStream 2.0, CloudWatch, CloudTrail,, etc.) would be a wonderful bonus
� Expertise with modern DevOps concepts, CI/CD processes, git commands, container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, etc.)
� Relevant languages include: bash, python, PowerShell, AWS CLI
� Familiarity with Jupyter Notebooks is a plus
� Comfortable working with CloudFormation, Terraform, or a healthy appetite to learn!
� Exceptional collaboration, listening, written and verbal communication skills with the ability to facilitate technology strategy, requirements and architecture conversations with all stakeholders
� Self-starter with the ability to work independently and as part of a project team
� Ability to manage your time and keep things from falling through the cracks even with multiple, simultaneous projects going on