About the Role
Title: AWS Infrastructure Automation Engineer -Dr. Ranganathan
Location: Grand Forks United States
Job Description:
Salary/Position Classification
- $25.00 hourly, Non-Exempt (Eligible for overtime)
- 20 hours per week
- 100% Remote Work Availability: Yes
- Hybrid Work Availability (requires some time on campus): Yes
Purpose of Position
To build, manage, and automate AWS infrastructure for a cybersecurity project using various AWS services, ensuring smooth operation, monitoring, and maintenance.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Set Up & Configuration:
- Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like AWS CloudFormation or Terraform to deploy resources:
- Amazon Data Firehose for data streaming.
- Amazon OpenSearch Service for data indexing and search.
- AWS Lambda for IP-based alert vector generation. –
- Amazon DocumentDB for vector archival.
- Amazon ECS for running RL (Reinforcement Learning) agents.
- Amazon SNS for queue management per response type/enclave.
- Amazon SQS queues for task distribution to responders.
- Implement Kinesis Agent and Suricata for anomaly detection.
- Automation Scripts:
- Create and maintain scripts to automate tasks (e.g., setting up SQS queue listeners, executing response actuators, managing Kinesis data streams, and processing data via Firehose).
- Monitoring & Alerts:
- Set up Amazon QuickSight for dashboards and visual analysis.
- Implement monitoring using Amazon CloudWatch to track system health and performance.
- Weekly Tasks (20 hrs):
- Day 1-2: Infrastructure review and updates for Kinesis, Data Firehose, and ECS.
- Day 3-4: Testing and deploying Lambda functions, SQS and SNS configuration.
- Day 5: Optimization, documentation, and report on infrastructure status.
Required Competencies
- Knowledge of Suricata IDS setup and data ingestion pipelines.
- Proficiency in Python for scripting with AWS SDK (Boto3).
Minimum Requirements
- Education: Minimum bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (EE), Cybersecurity, or Computer Science (CS) or equivalent.
- Experience with AWS services (ECS, Lambda, SQS, Firehose, DocumentDB, etc.)
- Successful completion of a Criminal History Background Check