AWS Engineer

About the Role

AFS is seeking an AWS Engineer to lead the design, build, and automation of our cutting‑edge cloud infrastructure in a Dev Sec Ops  environment. The ideal candidate is passionate about building secure, scalable, and highly available platforms on AWS. Your expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), container orchestration with EKS, and CI/CD pipelines will be critical to empowering our development teams with a robust, self‑service platform.

While our primary focus is AWS, experience in a hybrid environment and private cloud platforms such as VMware or Openshift will make you stand out.

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure environments primarily within AWS.
• Implement and manage core AWS services, including networking (VPC, Transit Gateway), Kubernetes (EKS), compute (EC2, Lambda), storage (S3, EBS), and databases (RDS).
• Architect and operate containerized workloads using Amazon EKS, including cluster management, scaling, and security.
• Security & Compliance
• Implement and enforce security controls, encryption, and access management to meet compliance standards such as DISA STIGs directly into IaC modules and other code.
• Act as a cloud subject matter expert, providing guidance and support to development teams to optimize their use of the platform.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to evaluate new cloud‑native technologies and recommend solutions that enhance efficiency and capability.
• Champion foundational best practices, including Git workflows and the proficient use of AI tools to accelerate development and problem‑solving.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent professional experience (approx. 8+ years in cloud/software engineering).
• Must possess and maintain required DoD 8140 certifications.
• Expert‑level proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with strong hands‑on experience in Terraform or other languages, to include advanced usage such as targeted applies, imports and more.
• Deep experience with container orchestration, specifically designing and managing Amazon EKS clusters.
• Strong command of AWS IAM roles, policies, and security best practices.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, Linux/Unix administration, and security principles.
• Proficiency with Git and modern Git Ops workflows.

• Experience with VMware vSphere in a hybrid cloud context.
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible.
• Familiarity with other public clouds (Azure, GCP).
• Understanding of common authentication mechanisms, OIDC, OAuth2, LDAP, SAML.
• Experience contributing to open‑source projects.
• One or more of the following certifications:
  Hashi Corp Certified:
  Terraform Associate/Professional

• An Active TS/SCI is required.

The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Washington, Vermont, the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland is: $142,300 - $179,100 USD.

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