AWS Cloud Engineer

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Will be responsible for engineering, architecting, and deployment of Cloud-based applications and infrastructure.
• Will develop strategic and implementation plans for information systems.
• Will develop the infrastructure as code required to generate cloud security infrastructure and security enclaves.
• Must be able to work in a high pressure, highly flexible environment against both short and long-term requirements.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Security Clearance - A current Secret level U.S. Government Security Clearance is required; U.S. Citizenship required.
• 9+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering including operations, management, design, and development of cloud-based applications and capabilities with a Bachelors in related field; 7 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 13 years relevant experience.
• 3+ years experience with Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Must have experience writing in Python and working on the Linux Command Line.
• Must have experience automating cloud configuration using tooling such as Terraform, AWS Config, Ansible, etc.
• Work autonomously actively identifying areas for improvement.
• Able to collaborate with existing platform architects on long term and strategic architectural changes to the platform.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking best practices
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Must be able to work in a hybrid environment, spending an average of 3-4 days per week at our Fort Meade, MD customer site or our local Columbia, MD office. However, flexibility is essential to accommodate any changes in the schedule.

Preferred Requirements

• Any of the following AWS Certifications are highly desired:
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
• AWS Certified Security Specialty
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty
• AWS Certified Big Data Specialty
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
• AWS Certified Developer Associate
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
• Designing, building, and managing infrastructure configured according to the DoD Secure Cloud Computing Architecture (SCCA) and DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (DoD CC SRG)