AWS Cloud Engineer

Job summary

The AWS Cloud Engineer role focuses on designing, implementing, and optimizing secure cloud infrastructure for mission-critical Department of Defense operations. Key responsibilities include managing AWS environments using tools like CloudFormation and Terraform, supporting CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring system reliability and security. This position requires an active TS/SCI security clearance and strong expertise in AWS technologies.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and the ability to obtain and maintain a CI Polygraph.
• Strong experience engineering and administering AWS cloud environments and cloud-native technologies.
• Minimum of four (4) years of experience with AWS cloud technologies and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
• Experience implementing and supporting AWS architectures utilizing services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudFormation, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Experience with deployment automation, orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management tools including GitLab and Bitbucket.
• Experience developing cloud solutions using object-oriented programming languages such as Python, Java, Ruby, or PHP.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, monitoring, vulnerability management, and operational support practices.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain AWS cloud environments utilizing AWS-native services and infrastructure-as-code methodologies.
• Build and manage cloud infrastructure using technologies such as CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, EC2, ELB, RDS, Lambda, and S3.
• Configure and administer AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, KMS, and AWS Config.
• Support continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines through automation, orchestration, release management, and deployment activities.
• Develop automation solutions using Python, PowerShell, Bash, and related scripting technologies to streamline operational processes.
• Monitor system performance, reliability, availability, and security through proactive alerting, incident response, and service improvement initiatives.
• Support integration, testing, validation, and deployment of new cloud capabilities across development, testing, and production environments.
• Implement and maintain security configuration management, patching, vulnerability remediation, logging, and compliance controls.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation including architecture diagrams, build guides, runbooks, operational procedures, and support documentation.
• Collaborate with developers, engineers, cybersecurity personnel, and program stakeholders to deliver scalable and secure cloud solutions.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and support Jira-based project tracking and sprint execution activities.

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Relocation