AWS Operations Engineer

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AWS Operations Engineer Overview:

Ever Watch is a government solutions company providing advanced defense, intelligence, and deployed support to our country's most critical missions. We are a full-service government solutions company. Harnessing the most advanced technology and solutions, we strengthen defenses and control environments to preserve continuity and ensure mission success.

Ever Watch employees are focused on tackling the most difficult challenges of the US Government. We offer the best salaries and benefits packages in our industry - to identify and retain the top talent in support of our critical mission objectives.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.

As a Dev Ops engineer, you know how to set up cloud environments and provision computer networking, storage, and virtual networks. Ultimately, how to "harness the cloud."
No better place to further your skills and explore different ways of solving our clients' challenges. You’ll work closely with cloud architects and engineers to manage server configuration for modern cloud solutions, apply your skills within a Dev Ops framework to establish or provision virtual machines or networks and use cloud service providers to further your clients' meaningful missions. Whether helping to develop, deploy, or manage IT infrastructures for crucial server and network components, you’ll have the latest tech and brightest teammates at your fingertips.

• 5+ years of experience with AWS services and cloud-native architecture patterns such as ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Sage Maker, RDS, Dynamo
  
  DB, IAM policies, security groups, and network security
• 3+ years of experience with containerization such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, and container orchestration
• 3+ years of experience with Authority to Operate (ATO) processes and security documentation
• 3+ years of experience with secrets management and security automation
• Experience with Dev Ops Monitoring such as Cloud Watch or Prometheus, logging, and alerting
• TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
• Bachelor's degree

• 5+ years of experience with bash or python scripting and CI/CD tools and practices such as Git Hub Actions or Git Lab CI
• 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code such as AWS CDK, Terraform, or Cloud Formation
• 3+ years of experience with disaster recovery
• 2+ years of experience in Type Script, Python, or other OOP language and writing and reviewing code for enterprise scale applications
• Experience in security scanning tools and Dev Sec Ops  practices such as Sonar Qube or Snyk
• Experience with security compliance automation and continuous monitoring, and system design with focus on scalability and reliability
• Experience with database administration and optimization such as RDS, Dynamo
  
  DB, or Mongo
  
  DB, serverless architecture expertise such as Lambda or API Gateway, and leading technical initiatives in large-scale environments
• Knowledge of security best practices and compliance requirements
• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Dev Ops Engineer or AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• IAT Level II+ certification such as Security+ or CISSP

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

Compensation at Ever Watch is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual's particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $86.54 to $100.97 per hour. The estimate displayed represents the typical compensation range for this position and is just one component of Ever Watch's total compensation package for employees.

TS/SCI CIP Job Location s:

AWS, IAM, Docker, Kubernetes, ATO, Prometheus