DevOps- Cloud Engineer

DevOps- Cloud Engineer needed for a Contract opportunity with Yoh's client located in Louisville, KY.The Big PictureAs a DevOps Engineer your primary role will be to help optimize and automate cloud processes and services, provide advice on best practices, and guide customers in developing, and adopting cloud environments.What you'll be doing

• Maintain and improve private and public cloud offerings
• Handle daily support requests from internal cloud customers
• Troubleshoot cloud-related issues
• Participate in and contribute to Cloud team projects
• Identify, optimize and reduce wasted resources in cloud environments
• Work daily operational requests from a queue
• Provide support for cloud rollouts/maintenance as required
• Evaluate and recommend new and emerging cloud products and technologies.
• Work with various teams to create, update, and implement cloud designs, standards and procedures.
• Identify applications that do not meet standards and work with teams to refactor to standards
• Participate in various cloud audits and metric collection exercises
• Open and follow through on tickets with cloud providers
• Provide support of Linux in cloud environments

• Experience administering Linux servers (2 yrs)
• Strong skills in at least one relevant scripting language (Ruby, Python, JavaScript)
• Strong understanding of AWS fundamentals, with a minimum of 1 year hands-on experience.
• Experience with automation, containerization and source control tools, such as Jenkins, Git and Docker.

• AWS Certified Systems Architect - Associate or better.
• VMWare Certification
• Redhat Certified