AWS Cloud Engineer

Title: AWS Cloud Engineer Location: Remote Security Clearance: DOD Secret (Fully Adjudicated), as a minimum
Citizenship: US

Years 9+

Required Certifications:

• Security+ or equivalent DoD 8570.01-M IA Tech Level II certification.
• Must have (or obtain within 6 months of hire) a computing environment certification as defined in DoD 8570.01-M, for this position those requirements are the following certifications:
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
• Any of the AWS Specialty Certifications

Job Responsibilities:
Position Duties:

• Collaborate with customers to understand their application environments, evaluate any architectural changes they may need, and develop an architecture that meets the application requirements and utilizes a cloud native approach as much as possible.
• Prepare and submit build and process documentation internally and with external providers to facilitate application deployment and upgrades.
• Deploy and sustain cloud infrastructure to support customer applications.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) for deployment and sustainment of customer enclaves.
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of customer application issues to include network, storage, operating system, and application level analysis.
• Amazon AWS Portal administration in support of the cloud customers add/modify/delete AWS resources, configuration of networking, alerting, and notifications, and general oversight of AWS resources.
• Provide on-call support for triage and resolution of after-hours production incidents.
• Make recommendations for improvements to security, scalability, manageability, and performance across a wide variety of network, storage, and compute services and technologies.

Required Skills:

• Senior level Cloud Engineer experience within AWS
• Baseline knowledge of networking concepts (routing, firewall, load balancing)
• Knowledge and implementation/operations experience with Amazon AWS cloud resources
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience effectively managing multiple large-scale projects in a fast paced environment
• Strong troubleshooting skills across the entire technology stack network, storage, server, and applications
• Experience with AWS services to include:

• EC2
• Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• RDS
• S3
• Lambda
• IAM
• VPC
• CloudTrail

• Experience with automation tools and scripting languages (Ansible, Terraform, Python, PowerShell, Bash, Puppet, Chef, etc.)

Desired Skills:

• Working knowledge of DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) and the Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM) process.

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