Amazon Web Services (AWS) Engineer Pro Bono (Global/Remote): UniversalGiving® – Make a Global Impact!

Job Summary

Pro Bono: This position is tailored to a professional who wants to give back by contributing engineering professional skills. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and can help us optimize and manage our costs and traffic on AWS. We need you for some hours over the next month to help review our AWS account and reduce costs. AWS is currently charging too much. Once the system is set up and optimized, you would check-in once every two months. We are excited to have you join our global team and help serve the world in philanthropy!

About Us

UniversalGiving® is an award-winning nonprofit allowing people to donate and volunteer with top-performing, vetted organizations all over the world. 100% goes directly to the cause. All partner organizations are vetted with our proprietary Quality Model®. UniversalGiving® has been featured on the homepage of Bloomberg, Oprah.com, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. UniversalGiving® also has been featured in more than 16 books, including the new edition Harvard Business Review Book, HBR Guide to Delivering Effective Feedback, Arianna Huffington’s Thrive, and Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen’s Giving 2.0. We have also been acknowledged six times on Great Nonprofits’ annual Top Nonprofits lists and are highlighted in Huffington Post's list of best volunteering matching websites. We continue to gain momentum, with dozens of articles in the Christian Science Monitor and monthly contributions on Forbes. To date, we have matched more than 22,000 volunteers worth $31 million dollars’ of volunteer hours.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate and manage UniversalGiving®’s AWS environment to ensure cost efficiency and effective performance.
• Identify and recommend AWS services suited to our organization’s operational needs.
• Manage our AWS account setup and configurations responsibly.
• Monitor performance, traffic, and storage while minimizing costs.
• Provide updates on security
• Provide recommendations on coding standards and guidelines
• Communicate up to the Lead Engineer on progress/performance from your implementation.

Qualifications

• BS/MS Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)
• 4+ years of application development experience using JAVA, MySQL, React
• Experience with client-side web technologies such as JavaScript, CSS
• Familiarity with source controls such as SVN and CVS
• Knowledge of design patterns and object-oriented modeling (e.g. UML)
• Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Strong debugging skills and principles
• Familiarity with GitHub for CICD and bug tracking systems such as Jira
• Strong experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including cost management, optimization, and performance analysis.

Benefits

• Part-time, flexible remote positions
• Opportunity to work with a diverse, global team representing over 25 cultures
• Gain experience with a global Tech for Good nonprofit
• With proven success & a positive attitude, UniversalGiving® is likely to facilitate J1, OPT visas

Duration and Location

• The position is 5-20 hours per month.
• Minimum 6 months commitment
• We provide remote positions with a highly globally focused team from more than 20 countries, including U.K., Canada, China, Japan, Ukraine, Georgia, the Philippines, Haiti, Germany, Canada, the Kurdish population, South Korea, the U.K., Brazil, Kenya, and many more.

To Apply

Please send your cover letter, resume, Linkedin, and portfolio work to engineeringrecruiting@universalgiving.org with the subject: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Engineer Pro Bono (Global/Remote): UniversalGiving® – Make a Global Impact!

UniversalGiving® is committed to understanding and representing the diverse populations it serves worldwide. Members of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, races, ethnicities, nationalities, physical abilities or disabilities, religions or beliefs, and cultures are welcome as employees and volunteers in our organization. We believe that a diverse team will best serve our diverse populations. Please see our policy on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Our Vision is to “Create a World Where Giving and Volunteering Are a Natural Part of Everyday Life."®

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