Overview
Skills
Job Details
Anticipated Start/End Date: July 1st to 12/31/2025, with possibility to extend additional years.
On-Site Required First 2 Weeks Optional remote after 2 weeks for exceptionally qualified applicants.
Qualified candidates will be responsible for providing these requirements with minimal supervision and support.
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Title : DFA AWS Cloud Solutions Engineer 766595
Location : 72201,Little Rock,AR
Duration : 6 + Months
Job Type : C
Description : Seeking a highly skilled AWS Cloud Solutions Engineer who will be responsible for configuration, migration, modification, support, and management of these very large systems in the AWS Cloud for the AIRS Service Center.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Provide primary operational support and engineering for the public cloud platform, and debug and optimize systems and automate routine tasks.
- Plan, design, and implementation of workload migrations from on premises to AWS Cloud.
- Configure, monitor and assist with the maintenance and support of the infrastructure environment within the AWS environment.
- Configure, tune, and maintain AWS services like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Systems Manager, Network Firewall, WAF, Security Group, Tagging, Network ACL s and Routing Tables.
- Setup and maintain Gateway Load Balancer and Transit Gateway.
- Setup and maintain VPC s in different Availability Zones, including WFCS and SQL installations and HAG.
- Setup and maintain backup solutions using AWS native services. This includes EC2 instances, FSX Servers, various S3 storage types, AMI, and Infrastructure as Code scripts using CDK in Typescript.
- Configure, automate, and monitor AWS CloudWatch alarms and notifications for system(s) health checks.
- Design, develop and maintain Executive Level dashboards for system(s) utilization, health, and cost.
- Setup and maintain security using tools like AWS Guard, AWS OU, IAM, CrowdStrike, and Tenable.
- Environment hardening to meet compliance requirements and configuration rules for Pub 1075, PII, and NIST frameworks.
- Collaborate with other IT resources and vendors to resolve application and/or infrastructure related issues to the existing AWS environment.
- Maintain technical documentation of the existing AWS environment related to storage, backups, & patching.
- Participate in the selection of new technologies while maintaining departmental information technology and security standards.
- Effectively communicate with Management, co-workers, and business partners.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Skills :
Skill | Required / Desired | Amount | of Experience |
Hands-on experience migrating/implementing significant applications on AWS Cloud platforms | Required | 4 | Years |
AWS web environment design and build experience, which includes AWS services like EC2, ELB, Systems Manager, FSX, SES, SNS and S3 | Required | 4 | Years |
Experience using AWS security solutions such as WAF, Network Firewall, Security Group, Tagging, Network ACL s, Routing Tables, Gateway Load Balancer | Required | 4 | Years |
Experience using Internet Gateway, AWS Guard, SecurityHub and GuardDuty | Required | 4 | Years |
Experience with high volume, mission critical applications and their interdependencies with other applications and databases | Required | 4 | Years |
Infrastructure to Code scripting using CDK in Typescript, Cloud Formation, and AMI | Required | 4 | Years |
Monitoring, maintenance, and support of the infrastructure within AWS environments | Required | 4 | Years |
Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch and CloudTrail | Required | 2 | Years |
Experience configuring CrowdStrike and Tenable | Required | 2 | Years |
Experience and knowledge of AWS network-level logging configuration and management | Required | 4 | Years |
Configuration and maintenance of AWS dashboards | Required | 4 | Years |
Experience with all facets of IT including Networking, DB Systems, Security, DevOps, Backup, DR and modern development methodologies | Required | 4 | Years |
Experience designing and implementing common shared services across enterprise applications | Required | 4 | Years |
Strong analytical skills and ability to resolve complex business/IT problems | Required | 4 | Years |
Microsoft Windows Server System Administrator experience | Required |
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GenTax architecture and application maintenance experience | Desired |
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Familiarity with industry security standards and best practices (PUB1075, FIPS, CIS, NIST, PII) | Highly desired |
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Strong communication skills, both oral and written | Highly desired |
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Availability to provide 24 hour support | Highly desired |
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Experience using Incident Management software solutions like Jira | Highly desired |
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AWS Solutions Architect certification | Highly desired |
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