AWS GovCloud Engineer: Modernize & Secure Apps

The following states/districts are excluded from this job ad: AK, CA, CO, CT, DC, HI, LA, MA, MN, MO, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, ND, OR, PR, RI, VT, WA, WY

Future Need - Actively Interviewing

Location: Remote in any United States jurisdiction not excluded from this job advertisement.

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.

Position Description: 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.

Minimum/General Experience: 3 years of experience in AWS cloud engineering

Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in computer science, information technology, or related field

Essential Skills/Qualifications

• 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

• Assignment Location
  - Remote
• Sedentary Work
  - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
• Typing, communicating, repetitive motions.
• Close visual acuity to prepare and analyze data, view computer monitors and read. May need to view presentation screens and other visual aids in a virtual setting.
• Inside environmental conditions with protection from outside elements.

• U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident that has lived in the United States for at least 3 years

• Covers 10 year period and in some instances lifetime events
• OPM Security Investigations Index (SII)
• DOD Defense Central Investigations Index (DCII)
• National Agency Check (NAC) records
• FBI name check
• FBI fingerprint check
• Credit report check
• Written inquiries to previous employers and references listed on the application for employment
• Potential interviews with the subject, spouse, neighbors, supervisor, coworkers
• Law enforcement check
• Court records check
• Education check - Attendance and Degrees

• Operates and maintains all AWS managed services supporting Health Applications Platform Services (HAPS) including Elasti Cache, RDS, Document DB, Kinesis, MSK, and Athena
• Ensures 99.995% incident-free availability for mission-critical managed service tiers
• Manages EC2-based platform services including Consul, Vault, Active Directory, Nexus, and Postfix
• Performs adaptive, perfective, preventive, and corrective…