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AWS Developer Job Description Template
An AWS developer is responsible for setting up, maintaining, and evolving the cloud infrastructure of web applications. AWS developers are expected to understand the core AWS services and apply best practices regarding security and scalability.
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An AWS developer is responsible for setting up, maintaining, and evolving the cloud infrastructure of web applications. AWS developers are expected to understand the core AWS services and apply best practices regarding security and scalability.
Writing a good job description or job advertisement for an AWS developer requires listing your current infrastructure stack—if any—and what exactly you are trying to accomplish regarding scalability and reliability. It’s helpful to state your current user load and which problems you are facing.
Due to the vast amount of services available through AWS, it can become hard to find a developer with the specific set of skills required for the job. This customizable AWS developer job description will help you write the perfect job ad so you can easily find and hire the person that matches your specific criteria.
AWS Developer - Job Description and Ad Template
Copy this template, and modify it as your own:
Company Introduction
{{ Write a short and catchy paragraph about your company. Make sure to provide information about the company’s culture, perks, and benefits. Mention office hours, remote working possibilities, and everything else that you think makes your company interesting. }}
Job Description
{{ Make sure to clarify how your current stack and infrastructure looks like. An AWS developer is expected to understand all the core AWS services; however, the nature of the infrastructure can vary a lot. For example: Are you using EKS or ECS to deploy microservices? How do your services communicate? Are you using Elastic Beanstalk? Is your application a monolith running on plain EC2 instances? How is your database deployed? }}
{{ An example job description might look like the following: }}
We are looking for an experienced AWS Developer responsible for making our app more scalable and reliable. We are currently running our services on EC2 machines using Auto Scaling Groups, and are looking to containerize our application and migrate it to EKS {{ Or another AWS service such as ECS, Lambda, etc. }}.
Currently, our monitoring is not working well, so you are going to be responsible for setting up a monitoring stack. Those metrics are also going to be used for service capacity planning.
Our deployment model needs an update. It is currently not possible to do automatic rollbacks, and every time a new version is deployed to our production servers, we experience some short downtime. The current CI/CD pipeline is also not reliable, and we are looking to migrate to the AWS CI/CD stack.
Responsibilities
- Understand the current application infrastructure and suggest changes to it.
- Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
- Migrate our infrastructure with zero downtime to a highly available, scalable one.
- Set up a monitoring stack.
- Define service capacity planning strategies.
- Implement the application’s CI/CD pipeline using the AWS CI/CD stack.
- Write infrastructure as code using CloudFormation or similar.
- {{ Add any other relevant responsibilities here. }}
Skills
- Experience with the core AWS services, plus the specifics mentioned in this job description.
- Good background in Linux/Unix administration.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes. Having used {{ ECS or EKS, or whichever technologies you are looking to use }} in the past is a plus.
- Proficiency in at least one language from our stack: {{ List the languages you use here. }}
- Strong notions of security best practices (e.g. using IAM Roles, KMS, etc.).
- Experience with monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, and the ELK stack.
- Previous exposure to large-scale systems design.
- Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
- Knowledge of writing infrastructure as code (IaC) using CloudFormation or Terraform.
- Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
- Past experience with the serverless approaches using AWS Lambda is a plus. For example, the Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM).
- {{ Make sure to mention any other frameworks, libraries, or other technologies relevant to your project. }}
- {{ List any education level or certification you may require. }}
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