Jobs / Akina, Inc.
Cloud Engineer 2 - (AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation)
Akina, Inc. · Annapolis Junction, MD, United States
Annapolis Junction, MD, United StatesExp: 6+ yrs232,000-284,000 USD/yearlyOnsite
Remuneration
232,000-284,000 USD/yearly
Location
Annapolis Junction, MD, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Cloud Engineer designs, migrates, and operates secure, scalable cloud infrastructure supporting near-real-time geolocation solutions. The role uses AWS and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation, and supports container platforms, messaging systems, monitoring, and incident response. Responsibilities also include developing high-availability and recovery strategies, optimizing cloud costs, and producing architectures, runbooks, operational procedures, and after-action reports.
Benefits
24 days of accrued paid time off annually11 federal holidays401(k) fully vested on start dateDirect employer 401(k) contribution worth 10% of salaryEmployee healthcare costs covered50% of dependent healthcare costs coveredEducational assistanceJob-related training and certification costs covered
Qualifications
- Six years of software development or engineering experience on programs of similar scope, type, and complexity.
- At least four years of software development experience on systems using cloud technologies.
- Experience managing cloud compute, storage, networking, and identity and access management.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
- Knowledge of containers and Kubernetes platforms.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, backup, disaster recovery, and high availability.
- Experience managing secrets, certificates, and key rotation.
- Experience optimizing cloud costs and troubleshooting networking, security, and service-limit issues.
- Linux operating system experience.
- Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph required.
Responsibilities
- Migrate applications to cloud environments.
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure and modernization roadmaps.
- Build reusable Infrastructure as Code modules and enforce development standards.
- Monitor infrastructure and system health, troubleshoot issues, and improve efficiency.
- Develop backup, recovery, high-availability, and cost-optimization strategies.
- Generate after-action reports and improve Tier 1 standard operating procedures.
- Contribute to architectures, runbooks, operational procedures, and performance metrics.
- Provide knowledge transfer and recommend technology enhancements.
Skills
ActiveMQAKSAWSAWS KMSAWS CDKCloudFormationCloudWatchDockerEKSGKEGrafanaHelmIAMKafkaKubernetesLinuxOpenSearchPrometheusSOPSTerraformAzure Key VaultElasticsearchSecrets Manager
Degrees
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline; may
Industry
Cloud computingGeolocationDefense and national security
Security clearance
TS/SCI clearancePolygraph required
Relocation
No