AWS Cloud​/Linux Engineer

Looking for a career where hard work is valued, and your ideas and feedback are part of the way we operate daily? Want to bring your skills to a company that encourages teamwork and champions continued education and process improvement?

Atlas Tech, a veteran-owned IT company serving multiple DoD customers in support of America's warfighters, s looking for a senior, hands-on AWS Cloud Engineer who has strong technical experience with Linux Operating System, and AWS infrastructure services. Besides the general cloud service expertise, you'll need to understand the fundamental compute and networking concepts that those cloud services rely on. Strong CLI and troubleshooting skills will be expected.

The ideal candidate for this position will have proven experience in a technology-driven program or project supporting the US Coast Guard. If you have systems engineering skills, a strong work ethic and commitment to quality, we would like to talk to you about joining our growing team.

Fully remote position available to residents in AL, CA, CT, FL, GA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, NC, OR, RI, SC, TX, VA, DC, WV, NJ.

Travel up to 10%.

• Linux Systems Administration: Administer enterprise Linux systems (RHEL
  9), managing user access, OS patching, package repositories, storage, networking, services, and kernel/system performance tuning.
• Core AWS Services Management: Configure, maintain, and support core cloud resources across EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS/EFS, ELB, Route 53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Config, RDS, ACM, and Systems Manager (SSM).
• Automation & Scripting: Eliminate manual operations and standardize deployments through Bash, Python, and configuration management tools.
• Networking & Connectivity: Configure and troubleshoot AWS networking components, including VPCs, subnets, route tables, DNS, transit gateways, load balancers, and private endpoints.
• Security & Compliance: Implement zero-trust and least-privilege principles, manage IAM roles/policies, enforce MFA, manage encryption and keys (KMS/Secrets Manager), perform security hardening, and support audit/compliance readiness.
• Monitoring & Observability: Track system availability, performance metrics, and logs; configure proactive alerting and telemetry dashboards, and participate in incident triage and resolution.
• Containers & CI/CD: Support containerized application workloads running on Amazon EKS or ECS, and build/maintain automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Optimization & Governance: Oversee cloud capacity planning, cost optimization, tagging frameworks, lifecycle policies, and disaster recovery/backup procedures.
• Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Maintain architecture diagrams, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), runbooks, and baseline configurations.

• An active Secret clearance or eligibility.
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and maintaining secure, scalable, and highly available enterprise architectures in AWS.
• In-depth administration experience with enterprise Linux distributions (specifically RHEL
  9), including storage/LVM management, package managers, systemd services, OS patching, user management, and performance tuning.
• Strong operational expertise across foundational AWS services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS, EFS, ELB/ALB, Route 53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, AWS Config, RDS, ACM, and Systems Manager.
• Solid track record implementing defense-in-depth principles: least-privilege IAM policies, multi-factor authentication (MFA), Security Groups, Network ACLs, cryptographic key management (KMS), and secrets management.
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex network routing, DNS resolution, subnet configurations, load balancer traffic flow, and private connectivity issues.
• Strong capability to troubleshoot and remediate…