Cloud/AWS Engineer

Seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Engineer, Senior to join our team in the Chantilly, Virginia or Denver Colorado area.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Performs engineering support and system administration of specialized cybersecurity applications and big data analytical systems to include installation, configuration, performance tuning, migration, troubleshooting, updates, and training.
• Assume a technical role in the administration and management of infrastructure solutions that are deployed in AWS in accordance with Security Guidelines.
• Integrate AWS into various databases, applications, and services by collaborating with Database Administrators and DevOps teams.
• Use AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) to deploy, troubleshoot and customize cloud resources.
• Design, customize, and document services based on COTS products using Agile development approaches and methodologies.
• Installing, configuring, maintaining and supporting applications and servers.
• Performing operating system and software installation, testing, patching and upgrades.
• Monitoring the health of internal environment and connections.
• Research new technologies that are applicable to current projects and make recommendations to improve performance, optimize operations, and reduce costs.
• Assist with AWS technical designs and documentation.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in the fields of computer science, computer engineering, or any related field.
• Must possess the required DoD Directive 8570 IAT Level II or higher certification.
• Minimum of 5 years relevant technical experience.
• 3+ years specifically operating and managing AWS infrastructure.
• AWS expertise (EC2, Accounts, VPC, Security Groups, EBS, etc.).
• Knowledge of AWS user, security, and networking configurations.
• Experience managing enterprise scale solutions that leverage the following AWS Services: EC2, S3, CloudFormation, RDS, CloudFront, VPC, Route53, IAM, CloudWatch, Beanstalk, Lambda, etc.
• Experience in Linux scripting and automation using Bash, Python and/or Java.
• Experience with engineering and administrating the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats).
• Experience with Container Services like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with automation tools including Puppet, Chef, and Ansible.
• DevOps experience of management of work within Sprint and Increment Planning.
• Working knowledge of JIRA, Git and Confluence.
• Ability to understand requirements (user stories) received and plan a workable solution that meets the customers need.
• Experience scripting against AWS CLI.
• Strong debugging experience.
• Understanding the needs for new initiative to build scalable, distributed and high-performance cloud environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS or other Cloud Based Certifications.
• Experience developing custom visualizations and dashboards (preferably in Kibana).
• Experience with implementation and maintaining event streaming technologies, such as Apache or Confluent Kafka.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and Git.
• Experience with JSON, NodeJS, AngularJS, and DB/data query.
• Logical problem-solving approach and the ability to clearly communicate technical system status, concepts, and proposed solutions to the customer.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to present in a group setting.
• Possesses a sense of urgency, strong organizational and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work as an individual as well as with a team for supporting the overall project planning, integration and implementation.
• Familiarity with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Software.

Security Clearance Requirements:

• TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.