AWS Engineer

We are seeking an exceptional AWS Engineer with over 7 years of hands-on experience and strong expertise in building AWS Environments, including landing zones, foundation services, security guardrails, and logging. This is a rare and exciting opportunity to work on innovative, high-impact cloud solutions while playing a key role in supporting our Federal Client in designing and deploying a DoD secure cloud environment. If you're passionate about tackling complex challenges, thrive in a collaborative setting, and are eager to make a meaningful impact with cutting-edge, high-performance hosting solutions, we want to connect with you!

Candidates MUST have the following requirements to be considered:

• MUST be a US Citizen.
• MUST have DoD Secret security clearance.
• MUST relocate or be willing to work IN-PERSON in the Washington DC- Baltimore Metro Area

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure AWS solutions with a focus on DoD security compliance IL4/5 & IL6.
• Automate deployments via IaC frameworks like CloudFormation, CDK, & Terraform.
• Automate processes via scripting languages like Bash, PowerShell, & Python.
• Create and leverage DevSecOps processes and controls to deliver cloud-based solutions as code.
• Troubleshoot, analyze, and resolve complex technical challenges in real-time.
• Advocate for cloud best practices, DevSecOps, and emerging tech trends.
• Collaborate with a diverse team across multiple organizations and vendors.
• Proactively collaborate to troubleshoot and remediate issues, analysis, and critical thinking.
• Maintain systems by monitoring, identifying, and correcting software defects.
• Develop, create, and modify general computer application software or specialized programs.
• Apply technical skills with limited supervision to recommend, implement, support, improve, and operate information protection technologies.
• Support on complex technical problems through engineering, including requirements analysis, design, development, implementation and testing
• Work with a team of DevSecOps Engineers to architect and deliver AWS solutions.
• Successfully collaborate across various technology disciplines.
• I helped evangelize IT best practices, AWS WAF, and trends, including tech ops, cloud, automation, DevSecOps, etc.

You'll Bring These Qualifications:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with DoD Secret Clearance(preferred)
• College degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline. Equivalent professional experience will be considered instead of a degree.
• AWS Certified (Associate or higher) for Solutions Architect and/or Cloud DevOps and/or DevSecOps Engineer (Associate or higher) or Cloud Engineer
• CompTIA Security+ or equivalent.
• Experience with AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CDK/CloudFormation, and DevOps/CI-CD.
• Proven experience supporting IL4/5 and/or IL6-compliant environments in AWS.
• Strong knowledge of AWS Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA), AWS ECS, and IL6 networking.

Experience with Agile tools like Git, Jenkins, Jira, and Confluence.