Job Title: AWS Solutions Engineer
Location: Washington, DC
Type: Contract
Compensation: $38.50/hour
Work Model: Remote – offsite
Hours: 40.0 hours per week
Security Clearance: Ability to obtain public trust clearance
Responsibilities
• Support AWS infrastructure including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, load balancing, DNS, and related services.
• Implement infrastructure changes using established architecture, procedures, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Maintain and modify Terraform and/or CloudFormation configurations under guidance from senior engineers.
• Monitor cloud resources and investigate availability, performance, configuration, and security issues.
• Troubleshoot networking, operating system, application connectivity, permissions, DNS, and cloud-service issues.
• Support vulnerability remediation, patching, configuration compliance, and security-hardening activities.
• Assist with cloud migrations, modernization efforts, disaster recovery, and infrastructure lifecycle activities.
• Develop scripts and automation to reduce repetitive administrative work.
• Maintain technical documentation, diagrams, procedures, and change records.
• Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Work with senior engineers to learn cloud architecture, security, networking, automation, and operational best practices.
• Gradually assume ownership of cloud services and technical workstreams as experience develops.
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in information systems or relevant field and 1-3 years of practical experience in the field.
• Ability to obtain public trust clearance.
• Ability to independently manage assigned work, document technical activities, communicate issues, and seek assistance when appropriate.
• Demonstrated self-initiative to build enterprise-like AWS systems and resources that align with well-architected frameworks.
• Understanding of fundamental networking concepts including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, subnets, and firewalls/security groups, with the ability to apply systematic troubleshooting methods.
• Basic understanding of infrastructure security concepts such as least privilege, vulnerability remediation, system hardening, and security baselines.
• Hands-on experience building solutions with CloudFormation, Terraform, Python, or other tools.
System One, and its subsidiaries including Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.
System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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