AWS Cloud Engineer
Remote Work, District of Columbia
Employer: SAIC
Industry: Information Technology
Salary: $120001 - $160000. per year
Job type: Full-Time
Description
The Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer is responsible for driving innovation and automation that adheres to cloud architectural best practices within the AWS cloud platform, and for managing a team of AWS engineers and driving customer deliverables. This includes O&M and designing & implementing new cloud platform solutions that accelerate cloud migrations from on-prem to AWS, reduce costs, and improve overall security and resiliency of systems & workloads in AWS. This is a 100% Remote role, and requires excellent communication skills
Key Responsibilities:
Required Experience:
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
The Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer is responsible for driving innovation and automation that adheres to cloud architectural best practices within the AWS cloud platform, and for managing a team of AWS engineers and driving customer deliverables. This includes O&M and designing & implementing new cloud platform solutions that accelerate cloud migrations from on-prem to AWS, reduce costs, and improve overall security and resiliency of systems & workloads in AWS. This is a 100% Remote role, and requires excellent communication skills
Key Responsibilities:
- As the Team Lead, you will act in a project management role to manage, monitor, and report on daily activities of a team of seven, manage the project to the customer defined scope, assess and mitigate risks, and be the single point of contact for the customer for all tasks and issues.
- Assist in provisioning and maintaining AWS cloud services.
- Collaborate with other Engineers, Developers, DBAs, and System Administrators when designing new or improving existing cloud solutions.
- Implement industry cloud best practices for security, performance, cost, and resiliency in all aspects of design & implementation.
- Administer, architect, support, enhance and monitor AWS services including analytics, infrastructure, networking, connectivity, user access management, security, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
- Administer, architect, manage and maintain IAM, user access, user groups and permissions for users including assigning roles and permissions, support third-party IAM integrations and other security tools as needed across all environments.
- Provide network infrastructure administration, design and architect level support for connectivity, configuration, performance, security, and reliability.
- Perform administration and management of VPCs, NACLs, NSGs, and DNS services.
- Orchestrate, provision, monitor, audit and manage EC2 instances and other AWS services for optimal performance, availability, and resource utilization including backup and restores.
- Troubleshoot OS issues, EC2 patch management, application software patching, and address vulnerabilities.
- Provide support for FedRAMP/ATO accreditation including logging, monitoring, and supporting documentations.
- Optimize the existing cloud migration process by introducing more automation (ex: IaC) into existing workflows with the end goal of speeding up on-premises to cloud migrations.
- Configure, support, and manage various AWS Services such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB.
- Experience architecting, designing, and deploying AWS solution using container orchestration and management services such as EKS, ECR.
- Promote continual improvement through automation of existing cloud tools and DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines.
- Improve upon existing cloud monitoring tools & alerting for cloud-hosted systems to ensure cloud systems' availability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency are optimal.
- Automate deployment pipelines in a scalable, secure, and reliable manner using IaC and immutable infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot issues with application deployments.
- Create and maintain knowledge articles, SOPs, and required configuration management artifacts such as build and release artifacts.
Required Experience:
- Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain Public Trust suitability.
- Project Manager or Team Lead experience, minimum 4 years.
- Knowledge of AWS ecosystems at scale.
- Hands-on experience using both the AWS Management Console and the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI).
- Experience administrating, architecting, designing, building, and maintaining AWS cloud-native services as well as third party COTS/GOTS tools and technologies.
- Hands-on experience and proficiency in using AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Config, Ansible for automation, infrastructure as a Code (IaC) and configuration management, VPC management, NACLs, NSGs, and DNS including writing and maintaining playbooks, templates, and roles.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, Selenium, and others.
- Hands-on experience with setting up, developing, configuring and maintaining DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on scripting experience with PowerShell, Python, BASH, SQL, NoSQL, etc.
- Minimum 8 years of overall experience as an AWS Cloud Architect/Engineer or similar role.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems engineering, or related technical discipline (4 years of additional relevant experience may substitute for education).
- Two (2) years of experience and proven success in AWS design, development, architecture, support, management, and operations within a large-scale organization.
- Hands-on experience Architecting, designing, building, and deploying with Linux, UNIX, Windows, container and server-less technologies.
- Hands-on experience with use of industry standard system architecture, AWS Well-architected framework, AWS Shared responsibility models, and system management concepts and tools.
- Delivering solutions using Agile methodologies.
- AWS associate level or higher certifications.
- Excellent writing skills.
- Excellent oral communication and presentation skills.
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
Created: 2024-09-11
Reference: 2410483
Country: United States
State: District of Columbia
City: Remote Work
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