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 Heath 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) Softare

  Security Clearance Requirements:

• TS/SCI with CI Polygraph

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