AWS Platform Engineer Lead

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1. Only share max 2 best profile
2. Deadline to submit the resume- 5 PM EST- Today
3. Note: Submit your W2 Candidates ONLY - No 1099 No Sub Contracting No OPT- CPT H4-EAD OR H1B Transfers
4. Local Photo ID (Drivers License or State ID) and Work Authorization are a Must while submitting the resume

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Subject: Candidate name and Position Name

1. First Legal Name:
2. Middle Legal Name:
3. Last Legal Name:
4. Position & REQ #:
5. Hourly Pay Rate:
6. Salary Conversion (if applicable): $ (Must fill if C2H Position)
7. C2C Shop Name (if applicable): (Must Fill)
8. C2C Shop agrees to the insurance requirements. (if applicable): (Must Fill)
9. Eligibility Status (US Citizen/GC/H1B):
10. Availability to Interview:
11. Availability to Start:
12. Residence (City/State):

a. Are you presently in your current location (As #12) (Y/N) (Must Fill)

b. Are you presently on Vacation or travelling to another state(Y/N) (Must Fill)

1. Willing to F2F Interview (N/A for out of state unless position requires it):
2. Relationships to any current staff members at CareFirst BCBS (Y/N):
3. Previously worked for CareFirst BCBS (Y/N):
4. Does the candidate have a working laptop/computer to use - No MACs (Y/N): (Must Fill)
5. Email:
6. Contact Number:
7. Birthday (Month/Day only):
8. LinkedIn Link (MUST):
9. Attach local Photo ID & work Authorization Docs(Y/N): (Must Fill)

If No then please dont submit

AWS Platform Engineer Lead(15 Yrs Exp MUST)
Client : CareFirst

Rate Confirmation: $80-90/hr. on W2 or $100/hr. on C2C (Flex of $5)
Duration : Long term Contract
Location: Reston VA (Do not exceed your search from 70 miles radius)
Work Mode: Hybrid - onsite 1x per week (some weeks may be more)
Eligibility: USC/GC/ GC-EAD (DL is required)
Interview Mode: 1-2 video then 1 F2F interview in Reston

Must have

* Current Health Insurance Customer Experience
* AWS certification is required

1. 15 years of IT experience including 8 years of AWS Cloud implementation and production support experience leading large-scale cloud transformation migration and enterprise modernization initiatives while driving cross-functional teams and strategic transformation programs.
2. Amazon EKS (Kubernetes) SME-level expertise
3. Platform Engineering Lead Hands-on
4. Strong hands-on AWS Cloud experience (EKS Lambda IAM VPC EC2 S3)
5. Experience with AWS CloudFormation and CDK
6. Python (including AWS Lambda/Boto3)
7. Linux Administration

1. 3 years of hands-on experience driving SRE transformation through Kubernetes AWS/Azure cloud technologies DevOps toolchains (Ansible Jenkins Artifactory Bitbucket) and automation practices including IaC automated provisioning release management and CI/CD.
2. Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
3. Ansible Automation

• Communicates Architectural decisions plans goals and strategies while highlighting short-term trade-offs vs. long-term commitments and costs.
• Engage in and improve the end-to-end Lifecycle of services starting from Inception & design deployment and operations.
• Establish automation capabilities leveraging Cloud native solutions to improve the Developer experience.
• Support activities including System design consulting developing software platforms and frameworks capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Willingness to roll up the sleeves and troubleshoot difficult issues and engage the Customer.
• Willingness to learn new AWS Services and other technologies as required.
• Systems Scalability and sustainability leveraging automation and strive to improve our systems with changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Experience with Enterprise Cloud transformation and migration efforts.
• Actively participate and help guide customers on using Cloud-native design and architecture patterns.
• Provide Consultation on Technology infrastructure planning and engineering for assigned systems; Assesses the implications of technology strategies on infrastructure capabilities.
• Establish strategies to migrate Legacy applications by conversion to multiple Microservices and hosting on AWS Cloud platform.
• Leverage Cloud-native architecture components including Containers immutable infrastructure Microservices Service Mesh etc. to build highly available and Fault tolerant applications.
• Conduct research on the global technology trends and their applicability to FEPOC products in support of our internal development teams and business initiatives.
• Promotes and ensures Modern application design applies engineering best practices in the development and operations life cycle and mitigates vulnerabilities.
• Monitors and manages the Stability Availability and Performance of enterprise systems and platforms across IT domains.
  • (e.g. Systems Network Storage Security) by analyzing systems to identify problems trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Automate end to end process to maintain (patches and upgrades) of our AWS Cloud ecosystem.
• Makes data-driven recommendations and decisions and continuously improves the overall efficacy and efficiency of our software delivery capabilities.
• Mentoring peers as well as engaging with others across teams and socializing solutions.

• Minimum of One AWS certification is required.
• Minimum of 15 years of IT experience of which at least 8 years must be in AWS Cloud.
• Seeking SME level knowledge in Provision using Automation via EKS.
• Extensive Knowledge in Provision Platform engineering and Administration is critical.
• Basic AI exposure / experience is required.
• Strong Leadership experience with driving Transformation initiatives.
• Experience with SRE principles and transformation.
• 3 years of experience with Containerization (Kubernetes) Cloud technologies (AWS Azure etc.) DevOps tool chain (Ansible Jenkins Artifactory bitbucket etc.) and technical patterns (IaC Automated Provisioning/Release CI/CD etc.)
• Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering (Build Integration Test Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python.
• Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team including customers (Dev Architects Engineers).
• Platform Engineering Lead with Hands-on Experience.
• Building robust Middleware Environments previous Linux System administration is required.
• Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services including:
  • VPC
  • Networking
  • Direct Connect
  • Subnets
  • NACLs
  • Security Groups
  • EC2
  • S3
  • IAM
  • ELBs
  • Lambda
  • CloudWatch
  • CloudTrail
  • EKS
• Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production level experience in AWS Cloud.
• Hands on experience with Automation and Infrastructure Provisioning is a must.
• Our goal is to only provision infrastructure with Code and Policy As Code.
• Must be familiar with Terraform automation Ansible playbooks and Python code.
• Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and CDK is required.
• Must have hands on experience in writing Lambda functions preferably in Python (Boto3).
• Must be well versed in writing Linux Bash scripts.
• Hands-on experience with Containerization and Amazon EKS is a big plus.
• A great understanding of various DevOps toolchains including Git/repo Crucible Jenkins etc.
• Solid understanding and experience with a CI/CD tool chain.