Forbes Advisor Hiring for AWS – Cloud Administrator (Chennai) at Chennai, Tamil Nadu Full Time

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Company Description

Forbes Advisor is a new initiative for consumers under the Forbes Marketplace umbrella that provides journalist- and expert-written insights, news and reviews on all things personal finance, health, business, and everyday life decisions. We do this by providing consumers with the knowledge and research they need to make informed decisions they can feel confident in, so they can get back to doing the things they care about most.

If you’re looking for challenges and opportunities similar to those of a startup, with the benefits of a seasoned and successful company, then read on:

Your Opportunity

As a member of Engineerings’ Cloud Security and Response Team, you are the first line of defense for all the people and parts that together make up Forbes Marketplace Cloud Business. You get out of bed every morning thinking about new ways to make life miserable for bad actors. You get excited at the prospect of searching for your adversary, teasing out high-quality signals from all the noise, and developing new ways to solve hard problems. Your work directly impacts the way millions of people, teams, and businesses get things done.

You will work with world-class engineers to deliver the next generation cloud platform and products, using the latest cutting edge cloud technology, such as Amazon AWS, GCP, and Data, to provide transformational and reliable cloud services to our customers. You have experience working at a global scale but are agile enough to deliver results iteratively and create ongoing impact quickly.

Job Description

Responsibilities:
Must have an in-depth experience of IAM and fine-grained access provisioning.
Provisioning and de-provisioning AWS accounts and resources for internal projects
Work alongside development, DevOps and SRE teams to support transition and operation of client web sites / applications in and out of AWS.
Work with development team to design the cloud architecture
Deploying, managing, and operating AWS environments
Identifying appropriate use of AWS operational best practices
Estimating AWS costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms
Keep technical documentation up to date
Proactively keep up to date on AWS services and developments
Create automation, in order to streamline provisioning and de-provisioning services and processes

Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree, preferably in CS or a related field, or equivalent experience
Must have a valid certification of either AWS SysOps Administrator or AWS DevOps Engineer.
Experience provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS
Capabilities to provide AWS operations and deployment guidance and best practices for a diverse set of web application projects.
Deployment experience using common AWS technologies like VPC, and regionally distributed EC2 instances.
Experience with working in Code Commit, Code Deploy and Code Pipelines services.
Have working knowledge on docker containers and Kubernetes.
Ability to work in a collaborative environment and handle multiple AWS accounts.
Fast learner, Achiever, sets high personal goals.
Must be able to work on multiple projects and consistently meet project deadlines.
Must be willing to work on shift-basis based on project requirements.

Good to Have:
Terraform automation
External monitoring tools like New Relic, Pingdom, Pagerduty, etc.
Deployment of projects hosted in GitHub.

Perks:
Day off on the 3rd Friday of every month (one long weekend each month)
Monthly Wellness Reimbursement Program to promote health well-being
Paid paternity and maternity leaves
Fully stocked pantry
Gaming area with table tennis, pool, and carom tables
Amphitheater for screening sports events, movies, and town hall

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree, preferably in CS or a related field, or equivalent experience

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.