Job Seekers, Please send resumes to resumes@hireitpeople.com Job Responsibilities: The primary responsibility of this role will be to provide technical expertise throughout the complete cycle of the engagement. The ideal candidate will be part of team with existing Amazon Web Services skills; they will be able to undertake customer engagements related to cloud architecture with a specific focus on AWS. Responsibilities will include: Green field development of Amazon Web Services infrastructure (EC2, RDS, EMR, etc.) Customer workshops to help them shape their journey to AWS Design, document and implement strategies around Cloud Assist Cloud Architects to design AWS architecture Required Skills: AWS core services, including: Compute and Networking, Storage and CDN, Database, Application Services, Deployment and Management Solid knowledge of Linux Systems Administration/Engineering Security features that AWS provides and best practices Network technologies as they relate to AWS networking, including: DNS and load balancing, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and AWS Direct Connect Scripting skills on both Windows and Linux with Microsoft PowerShell, Bash or other At least five years of IT industry experience Preferred Skills: Solid knowledge of Linux Systems Administration/Engineering Automation Tools (e.g. Chef/Puppet) Webserver (e.g. Nginx, Apache) Scripting experience in at least one of the following; Ruby, Python, Bash RESTful Web Services, XML, JSON Networking concepts including routing tables, access control lists, firewalls, NAT, HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, OSI model Large - scale distributed systems architecture One or more software development models