Configuration management using CloudFormation, Chef & Puppet.
Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment.
In depth experience with Cloud methodologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), automation, orchestration, cost frameworks, trends and industry-leading private/public/hybrid cloud vendor offerings and interoperability.
Experience with Amazon Services such as AWS, S3, Elasic load balancing / Block / Relational Database.
Experience architecting automated data center processes, including provisioning, application and patch management, monitoring and alerting, capacity monitoring and planning, leveraging execution and human approval workflow design and implementation.
Experience with Business Continuity and Disaster Recover design, planning and implementation for virtualized infrastructures.
Experience scripting with bash, Ruby, Python and/or similar.
Experience in virtualization tools like Vagrant and Docker.
Experience with Continuous Development/Deployment/Integration design and best practices.
Experience managing and working with configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible).
Experience in Agile development practices (Kanban or Scrum).
Ability to see opportunities for improvement, take ownership and work closely with others to drive operational improvement.
Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to correlate system behaviors based on known interdependencies between those systems.
Ability to handle ambiguity, embracing change and helping others see it as an opportunity and able to stay focused on goals while adapting to change.
