Software Engineer - AWS/Python

at  NCS Australia

Company Description
At NCS Australia, we believe in doing technology services better. Our commitment to quality, focus on people, and willingness to challenge traditional thinking set us apart. Our team brings this belief to life by partnering with our clients and communities to make tomorrow together.
We are committed to creating an environment that prioritises innovation, collaboration, and purposeful work. Our diverse team is empowered to make a meaningful impact with curiosity, creativity and resilience to shape better outcomes. Join us and accept the challenge of creating a better tomorrow.
Job Description
As a Software Engineer you will be responsible for coding and maintaining the cloud services. This role involves monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing cloud resources in order to maintain service availability, uptime and performance. You will also write APIs and Microservices using Python.
You will be working with cloud providers to manage and configure cloud resources, monitoring performance and availability of cloud resources, setting up automatic scaling, load balancing, and disaster recovery strategies, and performing service updates and patches.
You will optimize the performance of our services through team collaboration of service and software configurations. Dive deep to resolve problems at their root, looking for failure patterns amenable to long-term solutions. You will work closely with other operations staff, engineers and client services to ensure cloud services are available 24 x 7, based on roster.
On offer is an exciting career where you’ll make an impact and work with innovative technology solutions. You’ll perfect your skills alongside a talented and collaborative team while enjoying the recognition, progression and extensive benefits of a global organisation.

Qualifications

• Managed Services experience preferred as primary responsibilities are operational and business as usual support focused.
• Ability to support cloud and on-premise workloads.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Demonstrated experience in AWS services and clusters and ASGs: EC2, OpenSearch, S3, Lambda, SQS, CloudWatch, ECS/Fargate/Docker, Step Functions, IAM
• Hands on experience in writing APIs and Microservices using Python and writing Lambda functions
• Operating at a level 3 capacity.
• Experience with version control tools like Git and GitHub.
• Experience and understanding of DevOps CI/CD pipelines using tools like AWS CodePipeline or Jenkins.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues related to the AWS ecosystem, clusters, networking, IAM, and VPC.
• Ability to write efficient, reusable, and testable code.
• Knowledge of OpenSearch for search and analytics is highly desirable
• Effective communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work in an Agile development environment and participate in sprint planning and review meetings.
• Ability to work in 24/7 roster based environment for afterhours call support.
• Experience with Change management and release management processes.
• Relevant certifications, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional/DevOps.
• Experience in Terraform and Angular are desirable but not essential.

Additional Information

Please refer the Job description for details