AWS Cloud Engineer, Senior

Overview

Job Number: R0228540

AWS Cloud Engineer, Senior

The Opportunity:

Are you looking for an opportunity to share your experience implementing security systems to safeguard our nation? Everyone is trying to "harness the cloud," but not everyone knows how. As AWS Cloud Engineer, you'll design, build, and enhance cloud environments that help clients achieve complex technical and mission objectives. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop scalable, secure, and resilient solutions that support digital transformation and modernization efforts.

Applying your technical depth and problem-solving skills, you ll develop innovative cloud architectures, optimize performance, and ensure compliance with stringent security and information assurance requirements. Working independently with minimal guidance, you ll help shape cloud strategies, implement automation, and drive continuous improvement across multiple environments.

In this role, you ll manage, administer, and optimize AWS cloud environments to ensure reliability, scalability, and security. You ll design, implement, and maintain software applications while leveraging your experience with Linux operating systems and Bash scripting to support automated workflows and operational tasks. You ll design and implement infrastructure as code solutions using tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation, or AWS CDK, and develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for secure cloud deployments.

Your knowledge of AWS core services, including EC2, S3, and Lambda, will be critical as you build resilient, scalable systems, and your understanding of AWS networking concepts such as VPCs, subnets, and security groups will help ensure proper connectivity, segmentation, and security. You ll troubleshoot and resolve complex cloud issues to provide rapid and sustainable solutions, evaluate and recommend emerging AWS services and tools, and mentor junior engineers while promoting best practices in automation, monitoring, and cloud security.

Grow your skills at the leading edge of innovation.

Join us. The world can t wait.

• Manage, administer, and optimize AWS cloud environments to ensure reliability, scalability, and security.
• Design, implement, and maintain software applications while leveraging Linux operating systems and Bash scripting to support automated workflows and operational tasks.
• Design and implement infrastructure as code solutions using Terraform, Cloud Formation, or AWS CDK, and develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for secure cloud deployments.
• Apply knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, S3, Lambda) and AWS networking concepts (VPCs, subnets, security groups) to build resilient, scalable systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex cloud issues, evaluate emerging AWS services and tools, and mentor junior engineers while promoting automation, monitoring, and cloud security best practices.

• 5+ years of experience deploying and maintaining AWS cloud environments and resources
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining software applications
• Experience using Linux operating systems and Bash scripting
• Knowledge of AWS core services such as EC2, S3, or Lambda
• Knowledge of AWS networking concepts such as VPCs, subnets, or security groups
• Ability to work in an Agile, team-based environment using collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence
• TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor s degree
• Ability to obtain a DoD IAT Level II or Level III Certification within 60 days of hire date

• Experience with Java, C, C++, or Go
• Experience with build automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, Dev Ops, or Dev Sec Ops
• Experience interacting with AWS APIs programmatically such as Boto3
• Experience writing and maintaining Cloud Formation templates
• Experience diagnosing and resolving issues within AWS environments
• Experience with software or systems architecture
• Knowledge of IAM roles, policies, users, and groups
• Master s degree
• DoD IAT Level II or Level III Certification

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.

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