AWS Cloud Engineer; Remote

Overview

Sustain and modernize the AWS Gov Cloud infrastructure that Veterans depend on every day. As an AWS Cloud Engineer, you will operate and maintain the AWS managed services underpinning 300+ mission-critical applications while driving platform modernization.

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Engineer operates and maintains the full suite of AWS managed services and EC2-based infrastructure. This role performs adaptive, perfective, preventive, and corrective maintenance; implements Infrastructure as Code (IaC) governance; and supports multi-region enablement.

• 3 years of experience in AWS cloud engineering
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, information technology, or related field

• Excellent experience operating AWS managed services in production Gov Cloud environments (e.g., Elasti Cache, RDS, Document DB, Kinesis, MSK, Athena, S3) maintaining performance, availability, and cost efficiency
• Excellent experience managing EC2-based platform services (e.g., Consul, Vault, MongoDB, Atlassian tooling, Active Directory, Nexus, Postfix) in enterprise-scale AWS environments
• Excellent ability to implement and maintain 100% IaC governance using Terraform
• Excellent experience with AWS secrets management including Hashi Corp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager
• Excellent knowledge of AWS cost optimization including instance right-sizing, reserved instances, Savings Plans, S3 tiering, and cloud cost analytics
• Above average experience with AWS certificate management including ACM, certificate rotation automation, and PKI operations ensuring zero production disruption
• Above average knowledge of multi-region AWS architecture including S3 replication, RDS read replicas, Elasti Cache cross-region replication, and data consistency considerations
• Working knowledge of AWS EKS managed node groups and the interaction between EC2-based services and Kubernetes workloads in a multi-VPC environment
• Experience supporting a federal agency
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Operate and maintain all AWS managed services supporting Health Applications Platform Services (HAPS) including Elasti Cache, RDS, Document DB, Kinesis, MSK, and Athena
• Ensure 99.995% incident-free availability for mission-critical managed service tiers
• Manage EC2-based platform services including Consul, Vault, Active Directory, Nexus, and Postfix
• Perform adaptive, perfective, preventive, and corrective maintenance
• Implement and maintain 100% IaC governance using Terraform for all managed AWS resources
• Prohibit and remediate manual production configuration changes
• Maintain code review cycle time within 3 business days
• Implement and operate centralized secrets management using Hashi Corp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager
• Ensure automated rotation for production secrets and manual rotation at least every 90 days
• Manage AWS certificate lifecycle for managed services
• Ensure TLS certificates are renewed 30+ days prior to expiration and remediate any expired production certificates
• Participate in daily Change Control Board (CCB) meetings
• Submit AWS managed service changes 3+ business days in advance and validate within 2 hours post-implementation
• Support the Multi-Region Enablement Plan including data replication strategies with cost-to-benefit analysis
• Ensure all AWS managed services operate on VA TRM-approved software versions and contribute version compliance data to program reports
• Share AWS service health metrics, cost analytics data, and incident information in maintenance reporting

The annual projected pay range for this position is $86,375 - $117,390, with consideration given to qualifications, experience, job responsibilities, and geographic location.

• Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage for you and your family
• Life Insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability paid for by the Company
• Supplemental coverages including Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital
• Additional Life insurance coverage for dependents
• 401k plan with various options to select based on retirement goals

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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