Astek engineer jobs (salary & requirements)

Key Skillsets Experience Required:

1. Windows Expertise on AWS: Proven experience in configuring, hardening, managing Windows Server 2022 (priority), 2019, 2016 in a cloud-native environment.

2.AMI Factory Management: Hands-on experience with automated AMI pipeline management—building, maintaining, versioning compliant Windows AMIs at scale.

3.Security Compliance Integration: Integration of enterprise observability agents (e.g., CloudWatch, Splunk, DataDog etc), endpoint protection tools, compliance agents (e.g., Trend Micro) as part of image builds.

4.Industry Benchmarking: Familiarity with applying CIS Benchmarks fWindows operating systems ensuring that AMIs are hardened validated against such benchmarks.

5.MS SQL Standard Builds: Exposure to packaging maintaining MS SQL Server configurations as part of the standard image builds, ensuring licensing, security, performance configurations are aligned with best practices.

6.Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Strong experience with automation tools (e.g., PowerShell, AWS SSM, Packer(not important), Terraform(not important), git, ansible CloudFormation(important)) to support AMI lifecycle management.

7.Governance & Documentation: Ability to document standard build processes, hardening steps, compliance checkpoints to support audit operational readiness.