Cloud Engineer (AWS)

About This Role

This Cloud Engineer (AWS) role involves developing documentation for engineering, security, and operational processes within a large federal agency. The position requires a strong understanding of cloud computing fundamentals across SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS to design and implement robust solutions.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of all required documentation necessary to support the engineering, security, and operational processes for a large federal agency
• Design solutions that ensure maximum flexibility and scalability, while meeting all required security controls
• Perform business and technical alternative analysis for any/all aspects of the solution, aiding the customer in making decisions along the way
• Facilitate the transition of the solution to operations, initially and ongoing ensuring at all times the system is operating within the anticipated operating boundaries
• Design and implement solutions with a strong grasp of cloud computing SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS fundamentals
• Develop cloud-based solution designs and implementation plans based on customer needs

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other Engineering or Technical discipline or equivalent relevant experience
• At least four (4-7) years of professional IT experience performing duties in support of federal government agencies
• 4+ years design, implementation and/or support of highly distributed applications demonstrating strong architectural skills to ensure availability, reliability, etc
• Hands-on experience with AWS (Required) or other cloud services reinforced with architectural design experience
• Experience designing and delivering large-scale solutions, most of which that have advanced to the production state
• Strong grasp of cloud computing SaaS, PaaS and IaaS fundamentals with experience designing and implementing solutions
• Familiar with lift-and-shift migrations and migration methodologies for cloud migration
• Experience in Cloud computing, Networking, Storage, and Identity Management

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other Engineering or Technical discipline
• At least four (4-7) years of professional IT experience performing duties in support of federal government agencies; 4+ years design, implementation and/or support of highly distributed applications

Nice to Have

• AWS Certification or Cloud Architect Certification (or desire to obtain certification)

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits