Cloud Engineer; REMOTE

Koniag IT Systems, LLC a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support KITS and our government customer. The position is remote. This position requires the candidate to be able to obtain a Public Trust.

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, paid time off, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement.

Koniag Government Services is seeking a highly skilled AWS Engineer to support the Global Public Affairs Office of the US Department of State. The duties of this project team include the Cloud & Security Engineering & Operations, of their web assets hosted on Cloud Architecture running a Content Management System (Word Press).

The Cloud & Security Engineer will be responsible for configuration management, deployments, pipeline automations, as well as security-aspects of system design, security tool/service analysis and selection, and subsequent implementation. Individuals will configure tools to meet the business, policy and security risk tolerance of customers.

• Serve on the engineering team to support a Word Press site on AWS running a Kubernetes CI/CD pipeline and work with the cloud architect to implement, support and maintain all environments across the web assets to include lower environments. Achieve uptime, monitoring, and business continuity goals of the enterprise.
• Manage a production environment running Word Press on AWS that will handle a high volume of traffic and traffic spikes to include establishing monitoring and operational procedures to ensure business continuity.
• Be available to help outside 9-to-5 hours for infrequent production troubleshooting when necessary.
• Maintain, support, and troubleshoot all other environments, including developer environments, testing environments, and pre-production environments using Kubernetes (EKS) or other AWS utilities.
• Work closely with the AWS Architect, Product Owner, Scrum Master, engineers, and security engineers to defineand buildtheinitial service offeringas well asthe roadmap for future releases.
• Possess in-depth knowledge of AWSservicesandcloud computing, and the ability to communicate architectural trade-offs/design options so that the Product Ownercan make informed decisions.
• Be a motivated team-player with the desire and ability to work in a fast-paced, exciting environment.
• Participate in and support a team that is charged with coordinating and implementing various solutions required to support the AWS Cloud.
• Implement proof of concepts/pilots for various solutions, develop operational plans for supporting all the solutions developed, and create documentation and implementation plans for various solutions used to access and leverage AWS.
• Build and implement all cloud infrastructure to be the first field of any production support calls.
• Engineer and design solutions on cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Run risk logs and collaborate with the ISSO and System Owner to manage risk
• Be the main point of contact for providing responses on Common Vulnerability Reports
• Collaborate with technology team to document system boundaries and install controls in place germain to the technology and document with supporting evidence
• Provide recommendations to meet relevant security regulations, controls and policy.
• Implement the design by installing, configuring and testing cloud services and associated 3rd party services and software.
• Determine how to leverage services from cloud providers and identify gaps that must be met through other tools, software, or 3rd party services.
• Participate in assessment of system security controls to validate control implementation and identify weaknesses.
• Perform…