AWS Cloud Engineer (Clearance Required)

We seek talented individuals with expertise in specific areas to support a key government customer. This program will maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of our country's most critical missions at home and abroad. If you are ready to support a high-performing team that makes a difference, join us!
Job Description:
We are looking for an AWS Cloud Engineer to join our intelligence program supporting a key government customer in Chantilly, Virginia. The engineer will build, deploy, manage, and administer cloud infrastructure designed to deliver complex software products in a production environment.

As a Cloud Engineer, the individual shall possess the following capabilities:

• Work with a team to build, administer, and secure cloud environments, including hybrid environments, in a repeatable and reliable manner.
• Design, develop, test, debug, and deploy new cloud tooling and infrastructure that extend or replace existing capabilities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team of software engineers, data scientists, analysts, project managers and other engineering groups.
• Provide ongoing maintenance, support, and enhancements introductions systems and platforms.
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Write and update technical documentation such as system documentation, training materials, processes and procedures.
• Work alongside other engineers on the team to sustain and advance our organization's capabilities

Required Qualifications:

• More than two (2) years of applicable experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
• Demonstrated hands on experience configuring cloud VPCs, subnets, route tables, and gateways
• Demonstrated experience scaling applications written in Java, Python or other programming languages with Cloud Native technologies
• Experience deploying code in AWS utilizing solutions such as Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation
• Experience working with cloud native technologies, Infrastructure as Code (IAC), and/or Serverless cloud technologies
• Experience securing cloud environments per NIST 800-53 security controls
• Demonstrated experience achieving customer accreditation of cloud solutions for highly sensitive system
• Have hands-on Cloud engineering professional with significant experience in developing and deploying repeatable processes, tools, and cloud infrastructure that enable the delivery of software in and on-demand cadence.
• Strong, firsthand technical expertise in a variety of configuration automation, deployment, and continuous integration technologies and the proven ability to fashion robust solutions that can keep pace with software development.
• Ease working in an agile environment with cross functional team.

Desired Qualifications:

• AWS Certification: Solutions Architect Professional or equivalent
• Demonstrated experience with cloud technologies used with ETL and big data pipelines such as Glue, EMR, HIVE, Spark, S3, SQS, and SNS
• Demonstrated experience with Kubernetes or EKS
• Demonstrated experience using the AWS CDK

Position requires active Security Clearance with appropriate Polygraph.