Cloud AWS Engineer - III, Virginia

Additional Notes:

US Citizenship is required

-Focused on building/creating IaC patterns and has strong experience in building CI/CD pipelines (GitLab)

-Strong focus on Terraform, GitLab, and AWS (various AWS services)

-Majority of the work involves building IaC patterns and pipelines

-Technically strong individual with strong communication skills

-Experience with AWS security practices and cloud migration using AWS

-Will work on existing patterns and also build new ones

-Responsible for building new patterns from scratch and migrating to existing ones

-Experience with programming languages is a plus

-Involved in cloud migration.

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

As a Cloud Specialist (AWS) you will serve as a technical operations expert responsible for the design, implementation, and support of cloud based information technology solutions in current and future state. In this role you will be building, maintaining, and operationalizing infrastructure, security services, and system components in commercial or government cloud service providers to deliver highly available and scalable services.

" Proactive Problem Solver: Identify and address the root causes of issues, focusing on solving problem categories rather than individual instances. Engage early and comprehensively.

" Automation Enthusiast: Leverage automation tools such as build and deployment pipelines, Docker, Python, Bash, and Ansible to streamline and eliminate recurring issues.

" Multifaceted Expertise: Proficient in CI/CD automation, SDLC, Cloud computing (AWS), Python, Bash, and Ansible, demonstrating versatility across a range of technologies.

" Comprehensive Problem Analysis: Conduct thorough investigations to understand all facets of a problem, ensuring comprehensive and effective solutions.

" Culture: Strong focus on helping to establish and maintain a DevOps culture, setting development teams up for success by enabling and encouraging self sufficiency

Qualifications:

The following skills are needed for success in this role:

" Terraform

" AWS

" Gitlab Pipelines

Nice to have:

" Strong communication skills

" Understanding of security best practice in AWS

" AWS Migration patterns