Senior Cloud Systems Engineer

  • Washington D.C., DC
  • Posted 10 hours ago | Updated 10 hours ago

Overview

On Site
$60,000 - $80,000
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 5 Year(s)

Skills

AWS EKS
ECS
Fargate
FedRAMP
FISMA
high security environments

Job Details

The candidate shall also demonstrate the below knowledge and experience:

  • Developing software according to software development lifecycles (SDLCs), including

DevOps, Agile, Lean, or Iterative.

  • Designing, deploying, and migrating secure and maintainable systems for Infrastructure

as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS)

environments.

  • Proficient in at least one high-level programming language such as Python, PowerShell,

or Infrastructure as Code (AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform, etc.). Python

3.x data engineering with pandas, Databricks, or SPARK preferred.

  • DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and automation, containers, and related best practices for cloud

deployment. Experience with GitLab or Azure DevOps preferred.

  • Service offerings in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and government platform experience

preferred.

  • Understanding of cloud-based architectures, web servers, caching, application servers,

load balancers, and storage. Experience with AWS Load Balancer.

  • Familiarity with loose coupling, stateless systems, and best practices for designing cloudready

applications.

  • Understanding of cloud federation technologies such as SAML, Okta, OAuth, and

OpenID Connect and how to apply these technologies to enterprise and public-facing

applications.

  • Understanding of cloud vendor cost structures and the ability to optimize solutions for

cost effectiveness.

  • Experience transitioning legacy systems to cloud-ready architecture.
  • Understanding of RESTful Web Services, XML, or JSON. Experience with AWS API

Gateway.

  • Awareness of cloud information security risks and best practices, especially in a highly

secure operating environment.

  • Familiarity with government cloud deployments (FedRAMP, FISMA, high security

environments, etc.)

Highly Desirable Skills (not mandatory):

  • Bachelor s degree in computer science, information technology, or related field.
  • Experience with direct configuration and management of AWS components, including

CloudTrail, CloudWatch, S3, RDS or Aurora, PostgresSQL, Lambda, Glue or MWAA

(Airflow)

  • Experience with designing or implementing cloud architectures for analytics/data

processing/machine learning use-cases, such as data lakes, lake formations, etc.

  • Experience with containerization as a strategy for cloud-enabling legacy applications

such as Docker and Kubernetes (AWS EKS, ECS, or Fargate preferred)

  • Familiarity with the Well Architected Framework.
  • Experience with defining platform requirements.

Experience integrating with enterprise observability platforms such as Splunk.

  • Experience with Data Quality testing tooling (e.g., Great Expectations, Glue Data

Quality)

The Contractor shall deliver, but not limited to, the following:

  • Design and create custom build cloud applications
  • Set up and configure DevSecOps for cloud environments
  • Partner with the cloud platform team and development team to build, manage, and enable

the underlying cloud infrastructure and platforms in support of a business application

development project.

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