Key Responsibilities
Installation, configuration, and ongoing management of O/S and AWS services.
Implementing and maintaining custom client machine images and centralised configuration management to enable quick repeatable builds and auto-scaling.
Maintaining high availability through proactive measures.
Troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues.
Ensuring clients & partners are updated on current status of work and issues.
Raise, investigate and resolve problems and known errors in line with the problem management process.
Ability and willingness to proactively improve ways of working, automation and processes via our continual improvement Kanban board.
Partake in an oncall rota to provide 24×7 4th line support for Ensono's AWS clients.
Proactively keep up to date on AWS services and developments.
Skills and Experience
2+ years' experience in supporting highly customer-focused mission critical environments (e.g. high profile websites or enterprise infrastructure) essential.
Excellent O/S knowledge and experience in Linux or Windows with basic knowledge of the other. MCSE/RHCE or equivalent level of knowledge preferred.
Experience of implementing and supporting AWS based instances and services (e.g. EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route53, Cloudfront, Elasticache, WAF etc.).
Hold AWS Cloud Practitioner and AWS Sysops Associate certifications.
Experience of building and maintaining scalable and auto-scaled environments using automation and configuration management tools (e.g. Cloudformation/Terraform and Ansible) beneficial or can be gained.
Scripting ability in one or more of Python, Powershell, Bash, Perl
Experience of using Git for version control useful
Experience of working with or supporting containerized environments (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes/Docker)
Experience of Jenkins or other CI/CD pipeline technology useful or can be gained.
Good knowledge of TCP/IP.
A degree in a computing-related discipline preferred or equivalent ability and knowledge.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience working in an ITIL environment beneficial.
Desire to continually grow, develop and improve.
Client focused and results driven
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