AWS Cloud Platform Engineer Lead

We are looking for AWS Cloud Platform Engineer Lead for our client in Reston VA.

Job Title: AWS Cloud Platform Engineer Lead

Job Location: Reston VA

Job Type: Contract

Job Overview:

Pay Range $82.12hr - $87.12hr

Requirement/Must Have:

• 10+ years of relevant IT systems engineering experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field.
• In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.
• Minimum of 1 AWS certification is required.

Responsibilities:

• Identifies program objectives and technical development strategy; prepares System Engineering Management Plan, Work Breakdown Structures, master schedules, and key performance parameters.
• Develops and implements risk and opportunity management plans, identifies risks, assesses risks, develops mitigation plans, disaster recovery and tracks risks.
• Oversees the planning, design and implementation of system engineering projects.
• Plans, develops and leads systems engineering project and efforts.
• Develops and implements techniques to prevent system problems, troubleshoots incidents to recover services, and supports the root cause analysis.
• Manages customer and stakeholder needs, generates and develops requirements, and performs functional analysis.
• Acts as a mentor for junior and senior team members.
• Installs, tunes, upgrades, troubleshoots, and maintains all computer systems relevant to the supported applications.
• Expands engineering job knowledge and leading technologies by reviewing professional publications and participating in professional societies.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with SRE principles and transformation.
• Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.

Skills:

• Strong Leadership experience with driving Transformation initiatives.
• Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering leveraging Python.
• Hands-on experience with Automation and Infrastructure Provisioning.
• Strong skills and experience in at least one IAC tool for Platform Automation: Ansible, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, CDK.
• Experience with Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure etc.), and DevOps tool chain.

Education and Experience:

• 10+ years of overall experience in IT including hands-on Development and Systems engineering background.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field; master’s degree preferred.
• 5-10 years of experience in cloud engineering and automation, with a focus on AWS cloud services.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services and solutions, including but not limited to EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices for building scalable, resilient, and secure cloud environments.