Position Overview:
We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to support continuous development, continuous integration, cloud infrastructure engineering, deployment automation, release management, and operational support within a mission-focused DoD environment. This role will support both unclassified and classified infrastructure, including on-premise and cloud environments, with a focus on Amazon C2S-enabled architecture, infrastructure as code, automation, monitoring, testing, and secure cloud operations.
The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience designing, building, maintaining, and improving AWS cloud environments using tools such as Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform, EC2, ELB, RDS, Lambda, S3, Docker, Git, GitLab, Bitbucket, and related automation technologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide CI/CD support, including operational engineering, integration, release management, implementation, migration, training, and knowledge transfer.
- Design, build, and maintain Amazon C2S-enabled cloud capabilities using Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform, EC2, ELB, RDS, Lambda, S3, and containerization.
- Configure and manage core AWS services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, KMS, AWS Config, RDS, Lambda, and ELB.
- Improve reliability and availability through monitoring, alerting, incident response, and continual service improvement.
- Automate deployments and operational tasks using Python, Bash, PowerShell, and other automation methods.
- Develop automation to reduce manual operations, including provisioning, patching, backups, scaling, and routine maintenance.
- Support deployment orchestration and security configuration management using CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, and Bitbucket.
- Manage and improve integration/testing environments across unclassified and classified infrastructure, both on-premise and cloud-based, before production deployment.
- Document automated testing approaches, including integration, regression, and acceptance testing tools and processes.
- Maintain technical documentation, support patching/logging/vulnerability scanning/compliance tracking, and participate in release management and Agile/Jira ceremonies.