AWS Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Description

This position is in support of the Department of State as a part of the Vanguard 2.2.1 contract. The AWS Cloud Engineer duties will entail Cloud Evangelism as well as researching, designing and engineering integration solutions for the client. The Cloud Architect must have experience in providing leadership and mentorship to small and high performing technical teams working in the development and operations of cloud and other virtualized environments.

Role is hybrid in Washington, DC, but is subject to change based on customer requirements.  

Responsibilities include:

• Must have significant in-depth understanding of and experience with the creation of and use of cloud-based resources; as well as the migration of legacy systems to the cloud.
• Must be able to identify strategies for addressing requirements.
• Must have extensive experience analyzing requirements against fiscal, schedule, and performance concerns.
• Must have extensive experience in taking client requirements and developing it into an architecture vision.
• Must have experience in high volume and high availability cloud based network interconnectivity like VPC, VPN and VPC Peering.
• Must have experience in creating and conveying to the client and team members solutions based on cloud offerings and services.
• Must take ownership for system solutions including but not limited to: AWS platforms, deployment platform and virtualized environment solutions.
• Must have experience in establishing and enforcing standards and practices such as Agile.
• Must have extensive software and Hardware development experience and thorough knowledge of a variety of programming languages as well as development and deployment platforms.
• Deep Dive Experience with compute, storage, Database, Developer Tool, security, identity compliance, Management & Governance, network & Content Delivery, Analytic and application Integration.

Qualifications

Required Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related engineering degree and 9 years of experience; may accept additional experience in lieu of degree.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• Intimate knowledge / Development in one or more programing languages (Java, Python, C/C++, C#, PHP, .Net, Node.js, Go and Ruby)
• Utilized one or more cloud scripting languages i.e. JavaScript, PowerShell.
• Knowledge of JSON, YAML and XML.
• Intimate knowledge of system Administration of Windows and Linux servers.
• Knowledge and understanding of Virtual Networking principles such as DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, CDN, Public and Private Subnets and VPN.
• Worked with AW services such as Route 53, CloudFront and Virtual Private Cloud.
• Knowledge of data storage options available and when to apply them (i.e. bucket storage using S3 to Relational Database Services (RDS) to full fledge Hadoop clusters.
• Knowledge of Cloud Security foundations (i.e. securing AWS accounts, to data, to managing identity and access management (IAM) services as well as using security groups and access control list to secure networks).
• Intimate knowledge of both front and back end technologies provided by the cloud vendor (i.e. Amazon).
• Knowledge of basic Amazon services such as SQS, SNS and RDS.
• Working experience or knowledge of virtualization or services like virtual machines, EC2, Lambda and Serverless Computing.
• Working knowledge of Web Services and Api.
• Working knowledge of Containers such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Knowledge of using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to implement IaaS, PaaS, SaaS using CI/CD process.

Required Clearance

• US Citizenship.
• Must be able to obtain a secret clearance.
• Must obtain interim secret prior to starting work.

Desired Education & Skills

• Knowledge of and or worked in the following additional Cloud environments:
  • Google’s GCP
  • Microsoft’s Azure
• Knowledge of and or worked with the following tools:
  • Terraform
  • Chef
  • Ansible
  • Jenkins

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. 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.