AWS Cloud Engineer 3

About

The AWS Cloud Engineer 3 role at Boston Medical Center (BMC) will be responsible for all technological and operational duties associated with AWS cloud computing; including design, planning, management, optimization, maintenance, and support. The candidate should have strong experience and understanding of public cloud technologies, specifically Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Responsibilities

• Define, document, and implement BMC policies for cloud-based systems (Landing Zone, Control Tower, IAM, Config, SCP)
• Documenting changes and workflow in an Agile environment (Jira, Confluence, Jira SM)
• Clearly communicating with IT and non-IT professionals to ensure effective use of all cloud services
• Review AWS Cost Explorer, CloudHealth, Trusted Advisor and other tools to provide optimization of all resource use/cost.
• Strong ability to learn new technologies quickly and in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to drive and assist in the implementation of services to standardize cloud environment
• Ability to assess on-premises workloads and profile requirements needed to support in AWS

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline; equivalent experience acceptable.

Experience

• 5-7 years related work experience required in as an IT Systems Engineer with at least 3-4 years working exclusively on AWS.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with AWS Cloud Services (S3, EC2, RDS, VPC, KMS, SNS, etc.)
• AWS Certifications, Cloud Practitioner, PLUS Associate or Professional level Architect a plus
• Healthcare domain knowledge and working in regulated environments is a plus (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC2)

Knowledge and Skills

• Experience with monitoring systems such as CloudWatch and other industry standard visibility platforms (DataDog, Dynatrace, New Relic, etc.)
• Experience with Logging and log monitoring (CloudWatch and CloudTrail) both for performance, security, and compliance efforts
• Proficiency with one or more scripting languages (python, json, yaml, bash, etc.)
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including CloudFormation and/or Terraform
• Understanding of CI/CD on AWS platform
• Expert knowledge of AWS network and security features (VPC, Security Groups, NACLs, ALB/NLB, Transit Gateway, etc.)
• Experience building applications with native services and serverless architecture (Lambda) on AWS platform
• Strong understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM), SSO Integration
• Strong understanding of high-availability solutioning (multi-AZ / regions, Backup, Snapshotting, archiving)
• Demonstrated history of moving mission-critical applications from the datacenter to AWS

Decision Making

• Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents, policies, and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.

Problem Solving

• Ability to address problems that are highly varied, complex, and often non-recurring, requiring staff input, innovative, creative, and Lean diagnostic techniques to resolve issues.

Adaptability

• Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs

Business Acumen

• Understanding of the enterprise business and business processes
• knowledge of business unit functions and cross-group dependencies/relationships

User Focus

• Ability to anticipate user requirements and identify and resolve complex problems with minimal supervision

Soft Skills

• strong customer service and communications skills
• Good judgment and analytical skills
• Strong follow-up and organizational skills.
• Ability to assess internal and external communication practices, anticipate future network requirements, and research and analyze emerging technologies