AWS Engineer Lead

Job Description

Description

Description

SAIC is looking to hire a talented Senior DevSecOps Engineer who will be responsible for the day-to-day operations and maintenance activities of our cloud infrastructure hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS).  You will lead a team of cloud professionals in managing, optimizing, and supporting the AWS environment to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of services for our organization.  Your role includes supporting and championing the incident management, service request management, change management, and problem management processes as well as ensuing best practices are being adhered to by your team members.   

Responsibilities

·        Lead the AWS operations team in maintaining and operating the AWS cloud infrastructure to ensure 24/7 service availability.

·        Develop and implement policies and procedures for the operation, maintenance, and support of the AWS cloud environment.

·        Collaborate with the security and other functional areas to align AWS operations with broader IT and organization objectives.

• Monitor and manage cloud resources to optimize performance, cost, and scalability
• Drive the incident management process including troubleshooting, communicating, and post-mortem analysis.
• Oversee the deployment of updates, patches, and new configuration in a manner that minimizes impact on services.
• Establish and monitor AWS operational metrics and provide regular performance reports.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives by evaluating new AWS features and services and integrate them into the existing cloud environment
• Manage and mentor the operations team, fostering a culture of technical excellence
• Coordinate with vendors and external service providers for support and troubleshooting
• Adhere to and enforce compliance with industry and regulatory standards relevant to AWS clod services
• Stay abreast of technology trends and developments in the AWS  cloud operations.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Iac) and SRE principles.
• Support the automation and continuous build/integration/deployment infrastructure for the AWS environment; write, build and deploy scripts.
• Enable observability and resilience throughout cloud landing zones and Dev/Test/Prod environments.

Continuously assess, onboard, and enable new FedRAMP cloud services using security best practices for IAM and networking

Qualifications

Description

SAIC is looking to hire a talented Senior DevSecOps Engineer who will be responsible for the day-to-day operations and maintenance activities of our cloud infrastructure hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS).  You will lead a team of cloud professionals in managing, optimizing, and supporting the AWS environment to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of services for our organization.  Your role includes supporting and championing the incident management, service request management, change management, and problem management processes as well as ensuing best practices are being adhered to by your team members.   

Responsibilities

·        Lead the AWS operations team in maintaining and operating the AWS cloud infrastructure to ensure 24/7 service availability.

·        Develop and implement policies and procedures for the operation, maintenance, and support of the AWS cloud environment.

·        Collaborate with the security and other functional areas to align AWS operations with broader IT and organization objectives.

• Monitor and manage cloud resources to optimize performance, cost, and scalability
• Drive the incident management process including troubleshooting, communicating, and post-mortem analysis.
• Oversee the deployment of updates, patches, and new configuration in a manner that minimizes impact on services.
• Establish and monitor AWS operational metrics and provide regular performance reports.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives by evaluating new AWS features and services and integrate them into the existing cloud environment
• Manage and mentor the operations team, fostering a culture of technical excellence
• Coordinate with vendors and external service providers for support and troubleshooting
• Adhere to and enforce compliance with industry and regulatory standards relevant to AWS clod services
• Stay abreast of technology trends and developments in the AWS  cloud operations.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Iac) and SRE principles.
• Support the automation and continuous build/integration/deployment infrastructure for the AWS environment; write, build and deploy scripts.
• Enable observability and resilience throughout cloud landing zones and Dev/Test/Prod environments.

Continuously assess, onboard, and enable new FedRAMP cloud services using security best practices for IAM and networking

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion, which is core to our values and important to attract and retain exceptional talent. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.4 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.