AWS DevOps- Infrastructure

at  IBM

Introduction
The infrastructure running industries likes transportation, energy, insurance, banking or healthcare is quickly changing as the world’s relationship with technology evolves. Companies have more choices than ever before between on-premise, off-premise, or a hybrid approach. Our Infrastructure Specialists are responsible for keeping up with these latest and greatest of these changes and using their expertise to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our customers and products.
Your Role and Responsibilities
Infrastructure running industries likes transportation, energy, insurance, banking or healthcare which are rapidly changing as the worlds relationship with technology evolves. Ready to help our clients take the next step forward?
Companies have more choices than ever before between on-premise, off-premise, or a hybrid approach. As an Associate Infrastructure Specialist, you’ll be responsible for keeping up with the latest changes, using your expertise to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our clients and products. In your role you may be responsible for:
Define, analyze and review technical architecture on required platform and coming up with architecture options and recommendations
Define, detail, and scope the technical requirements into solutions
Work across key activities in configuration, systems management tools and backup and recovery
Support Technical Consultants and lead in building solutions and providing technical mentoring and guidance
Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in using tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation to automate the provisioning and management of infrastructure components including servers, databases, and networking resources.

• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline to automate build, test, and deployment processes.
• Monitoring and Logging: Familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or AWS CloudWatch for monitoring system performance, resource utilization, and application health, as well as logging tools like ELK stack for centralized log management.
• AWS Services: Proficiency in managing AWS services such as EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, Glue, and others through automation and infrastructure management tools to ensure scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Backup and Restore: Knowledge of backup and restore procedures for databases like PostgreSQL, including automated backup solutions and disaster recovery planning.
• Performance Optimization: Ability to identify performance bottlenecks, optimize system performance, and tune infrastructure components for better efficiency and resource utilization.
• Configuration Management: Experience in implementing configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef to ensure consistency and reliability across environments and automate software deployments.
• Containerization and Orchestration: Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes to deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications efficiently.
• Security Automation: Ability to automate security checks and processes within the CI/CD pipeline using tools like SonarQube, OWASP ZAP, or SAST/DAST scanners to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities early in the development process.
• Version Control Systems: Experience with version control systems like Git for managing infrastructure code, configuration files, and automation scripts.
• Disaster Recovery and High Availability: Ability to design and implement disaster recovery strategies and high availability architectures to ensure business continuity and minimize downtime.
• Networking and Security: Understanding of networking concepts including VPC, subnets, security groups, and routing, and experience in configuring network security policies and access controls.
• Scripting and Automation: Strong scripting skills in languages like Python, Shell, or PowerShell to automate repetitive tasks, build tools, and implement custom solutions..
• Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Proven ability to create clear and concise documentation for infrastructure configurations, deployment procedures, and troubleshooting guides, and facilitate knowledge sharing among team members.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Agile Methodologies: Experience working in Agile development environments, including Scrum or Kanban, with a focus on iterative development and continuous delivery.
Collaboration and Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with development teams, operations teams, and other stakeholders to streamline processes and ensure smooth deployments.
About Business UnitIBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
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