Senior AWS Architect/Engineer

Green Card or US Citizen - must provide proof of residency

Must live within 2 hours of Woodlawn, MD

Key Required Skills: Systems Admin supporting Middleware, Enterprise Applications, managing complex systems/projects, workflow, technical knowledge of AWS platform and applications in AWS IaaS, PaaS, SaaS environments, understanding Network functions/team collaboration.

Must be able to obtain a public trust clearance.

*** Selected candidate must reside within two (2) hours of SSA Headquarters in Woodlawn, MD

*** Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site at least 2 days a week.

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Position Description

• Provide engineering and operations support for the AWS CCaaS platform.
• Analyze application and platform and translate functional requirements into technical solutions.
• Provide recommendations to solve technical business problems and identify opportunities and risks.
• Provide cloud architectural, platform optimization consulting expertise to technical leads, cloud engineers, and other systems architects.
• Document and review IT cloud architecture/infrastructure, and technology portfolio.
• Provide recommendations and implementation of cloud technology standards policies and standards.
• Attend all customer technical discussions/design/development meetings and provide technical inputs to further enhance the code quality/process.
• Impact functional strategy by developing new solutions, processes, standards, or operational plans that position customer competitively in the marketplace with best practices.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field
• Master's or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience.
• 7+ years of experience in Ansible, Kubernetes, Containers, GitLab, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence and CloudFormation
• 7+ years in AWS Cloud Services such as VPC, EC2, EKS, ECR, EFS, EBS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, SQS, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Route 53, Cloud Watch and IAM.
• 5+ years of experience practicing AWS Cloud Computing, DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure Automation, Configuration Management, and Quality Engineering Expertise.
• Proficiency with integrating AWS applications with inhouse systems e.g., CRM, ServiceNow
• Contact center migration experience from legacy systems to cloud hosted capabilities.
• Experience working in Agile Practices (e.g. SAFE, Scrum)

Required Skills:

• Strong understanding of cloud computing architecture and design principles.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, automation, and deployment strategies.
• Experience with deploying and managing cloud-based solutions in production.
• Solid AWS Services Experience: Connect, EC2, Cloud Formation, VPC, ELB, AWS Security, S3, RDS, EBS, ECS.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools for automation (Ansible).
• Hands-on experience with programming languages (e.g., Python, Ruby or PowerShell).
• Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, Splunk).

Desired Skills

• Experience with Lean / Agile development methodologies.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and experience working in a team environment.
• Hands-on and architectural experience with modern Cloud Native architectures.
• Delivery (CI/CD) best practices and use of DevOps to accelerate quality releases to Production.
• Design and build high-quality, scalable, and secure cloud-based solutions on the AWS platform.
• Experience working in a PaaS/SaaS environments, Agile practices and service-oriented environments.
• Self-starter, highly motivated individual who adapts and isn't afraid to volunteer in a dynamic work environment.
• Strong attention to detail with an ability to operate effectively across multiple priorities.
• Adept at working independently, but also in a team environment.
• Demonstrated experience delivering technology solutions in a fast-paced, deadline driven enterprise environment.
• Excellent understanding of change management, testing requirements, techniques, and tools to ensure high availability of systems.
• Prior Federal government experience