AWS Solutions Engineer | Mozilla corporation | San Francisco, CA, United States

AWS Solutions Engineer | Mozilla corporation | San Francisco, CA, United States

AWS Solutions Engineer

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Team:

IT

Locations:

San Francisco, CA, United States

Do know your way around Linux and application deployment strategies better than your own house? Is it your mission to help deliver the best user experience possible for the most widely-used open source applications in the world??

Mozilla’s Information Technology (IT) team is looking for an Amazon Web Services solutions architect. You'll need solid Linux/UNIX skills and experience with standard web application stacks (LAMP, LAMPy, Django, etc). You'll also need to be able program with a strong grasp of deployment challenges. You'll be expected to provide hands-on technical engineering of our ever-growing server and application environments across multiple global data centers, and AWS. Most importantly, you'll be an integral part of the team designing AWS infrastructure responsible for delivering Mozilla’s back-end services to both internal and external-facing customers.?

Responsibilities:
•    Design scalable AWS solutions that are resilient, secure, and cost effective.
•    Govern AWS usage, specifically around initial setup and architecture.
•    Work with application developers to assist in porting their applications to AWS.
•    Build resource plans to best optimize AWS usage and billing.
•    Routinely monitor AWS usage and make recommendations around how best to utilize AWS services and features.
•    Be a 2nd-tier escalation point for Mozilla operations engineers.
•    Collaboration with QA, Security, and Engineering as necessary.?

Skills/Experience Required:
•    In-depth knowledge and experience of AWS features, including EC2, S3, ELBs, VPCs, CloudFormation and IAM.
•    Experience & passion supporting a production infrastructure.
•    Solid scripting knowledge in Python and Bash.
•    Automation and configuration management experience; preferably with Puppet.
•    Impeccable documentation skills.
•    Lifecycle management experience, with ITIL familiarity a big plus.
•    Knowledge of common open source software, including Linux, MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHP.
•    Understanding of common infrastructure daemons such as BIND, DHCPD, Postfix, etc.
•    Embrace guidance from more senior team members
•    ~2 years experience administrating servers in a lights-out data center infrastructure?

Education
•    Bachelor’s degree in information technology, information systems, computer science, or equivalent plus experience.


http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/o8jjZfwt