Cloud Engineer

at  SAIC

Job ID: 2407704-2949
Location: REMOTE WORK, VA, US
Date Posted: 2024-05-31
Category: Information Technology
Subcategory: Cloud Comp Engr
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
Minimum Clearance Required: None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust
Potential for Remote Work: No
Description
The AWS Cloud Engineer is responsible for driving innovation & automation that adheres to cloud architectural best practices within the AWS cloud platform. This includes O&M and designing & implementing new cloud platform solutions that accelerate cloud migrations from on-prem to AWS, reduce costs, and improve overall security and resiliency of systems & workloads in AWS. This is a 100% Remote role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in provisioning and maintaining AWS cloud services.
• Collaborate with other Engineers, Developers, DBAs, and System Administrators when designing new or improving existing cloud solutions.
• Implement industry cloud best practices for security, performance, cost, & resiliency in all aspects of design & implementation.
• Support, enhance and monitor AWS services including analytics, infrastructure, networking, user access management, security, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
• Manage and maintain IAM, user access, user groups and permissions for users including assigning roles and permissions, support third-party IAM integrations and other security tools as needed across all environments.
• Provide network infrastructure support for connectivity, configuration, performance, security, and reliability.
• Orchestrate, provision, monitor, audit and manage EC2 instances and other AWS services for optimal performance, availability, and resource utilization including backup and restores.
• Provide support for and monitor VPCs, NACLs, NSGs, and DNS services.
• Troubleshoot OS issues, EC2 patch management, application software patching, and address vulnerabilities.
• Provide support for FedRAMP/ATO accreditation including logging, monitoring, and supporting documentations.
• Optimize the existing cloud migration process by introducing more automation (E.g., IaC) into existing workflows with the end goal of speeding up on-premises to cloud migrations.
• Support and manage various AWS Services such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB
• Experience building AWS solutions using container orchestration and management services such as EKS, ECR.
• Promote continual improvement through automation of existing cloud tools & DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve upon existing cloud monitoring tools & alerting for cloud-hosted systems to ensure cloud systems’ availability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency are optimal.
• Automate deployment pipelines in a scalable, secure, and reliable manner using IaC and immutable infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot issues with application deployments.
• Experience providing Tier II and Tier III operational support while managing help desk tickets.
• Create and maintain knowledge articles, SOPs, and required configuration management artifacts such as build and release artifacts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in provisioning and maintaining AWS cloud services.
• Collaborate with other Engineers, Developers, DBAs, and System Administrators when designing new or improving existing cloud solutions.
• Implement industry cloud best practices for security, performance, cost, & resiliency in all aspects of design & implementation.
• Administer, architect, support, enhance and monitor AWS services including analytics, infrastructure, networking, connectivity, user access management, security, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
• Administer, architect, manage and maintain IAM, user access, user groups and permissions for users including assigning roles and permissions, support third-party IAM integrations and other security tools as needed across all environments.
• Provide network infrastructure administration, design and architect level support for connectivity, configuration, performance, security, and reliability.
• Perform administration and management of VPCs, NACLs, NSGs, and DNS services.
• Orchestrate, provision, monitor, audit and manage EC2 instances and other AWS services for optimal performance, availability, and resource utilization including backup and restores.
• Troubleshoot OS issues, EC2 patch management, application software patching, and address vulnerabilities.
• Provide support for FedRAMP/ATO accreditation including logging, monitoring, and supporting documentations.
• Optimize the existing cloud migration process by introducing more automation (E.g., IaC) into existing workflows with the end goal of speeding up on-premises to cloud migrations.
• Configure, support, and manage various AWS Services such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB
• Experience architecting, designing, and deploying AWS solution using container orchestration and management services such as EKS, ECR.
• Promote continual improvement through automation of existing cloud tools & DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve upon existing cloud monitoring tools & alerting for cloud-hosted systems to ensure cloud systems’ availability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency are optimal.
• Automate deployment pipelines in a scalable, secure, and reliable manner using IaC and immutable infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot issues with application deployments.
• Create and maintain knowledge articles, SOPs, and required configuration management artifacts such as build and release artifacts.

Qualifications

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• Knowledge of AWS ecosystems at scale
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining AWS cloud-native services as well as third party COTS/GOTS tools and technologies
• Hands-on experience and proficiency in using AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Config, Ansible for automation, infrastructure as a Code (IaC) and configuration management, including writing and maintaining playbooks, templates, and roles.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, Selenium, and others
• Hands-on experience with setting up, developing, configuring and maintaining DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on scripting experience with PowerShell, Python, BASH, SQL, NoSQL, etc.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5 years of experience as an AWS Cloud Engineer or similar role
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, systems engineering, or related technical discipline (4 years of additional relevant experience may substitute for education)
• Two (2) years of experience and proven success in AWS design, development, architecture, support, management, and operations within a large-scale organization.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying with Linux, UNIX, Windows, container and server-less technologies.
• Hands-on experience with use of industry standard system architecture, AWS Well-architected framework, AWS Shared responsibility models, and system management concepts and tools.
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in provisioning and maintaining AWS cloud services.
• Collaborate with other Engineers, Developers, DBAs, and System Administrators when designing new or improving existing cloud solutions.
• Implement industry cloud best practices for security, performance, cost, & resiliency in all aspects of design & implementation.
• Support, enhance and monitor AWS services including analytics, infrastructure, networking, user access management, security, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
• Manage and maintain IAM, user access, user groups and permissions for users including assigning roles and permissions, support third-party IAM integrations and other security tools as needed across all environments.
• Provide network infrastructure support for connectivity, configuration, performance, security, and reliability.
• Orchestrate, provision, monitor, audit and manage EC2 instances and other AWS services for optimal performance, availability, and resource utilization including backup and restores.
• Provide support for and monitor VPCs, NACLs, NSGs, and DNS services.
• Troubleshoot OS issues, EC2 patch management, application software patching, and address vulnerabilities.
• Provide support for FedRAMP/ATO accreditation including logging, monitoring, and supporting documentations.
• Optimize the existing cloud migration process by introducing more automation (E.g., IaC) into existing workflows with the end goal of speeding up on-premises to cloud migrations.
• Support and manage various AWS Services such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB
• Experience building AWS solutions using container orchestration and management services such as EKS, ECR.
• Promote continual improvement through automation of existing cloud tools & DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve upon existing cloud monitoring tools & alerting for cloud-hosted systems to ensure cloud systems’ availability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency are optimal.
• Automate deployment pipelines in a scalable, secure, and reliable manner using IaC and immutable infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot issues with application deployments.
• Experience providing Tier II and Tier III operational support while managing help desk tickets.
• Create and maintain knowledge articles, SOPs, and required configuration management artifacts such as build and release artifacts

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in provisioning and maintaining AWS cloud services.
• Collaborate with other Engineers, Developers, DBAs, and System Administrators when designing new or improving existing cloud solutions.
• Implement industry cloud best practices for security, performance, cost, & resiliency in all aspects of design & implementation.
• Administer, architect, support, enhance and monitor AWS services including analytics, infrastructure, networking, connectivity, user access management, security, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
• Administer, architect, manage and maintain IAM, user access, user groups and permissions for users including assigning roles and permissions, support third-party IAM integrations and other security tools as needed across all environments.
• Provide network infrastructure administration, design and architect level support for connectivity, configuration, performance, security, and reliability.
• Perform administration and management of VPCs, NACLs, NSGs, and DNS services.
• Orchestrate, provision, monitor, audit and manage EC2 instances and other AWS services for optimal performance, availability, and resource utilization including backup and restores.
• Troubleshoot OS issues, EC2 patch management, application software patching, and address vulnerabilities.
• Provide support for FedRAMP/ATO accreditation including logging, monitoring, and supporting documentations.
• Optimize the existing cloud migration process by introducing more automation (E.g., IaC) into existing workflows with the end goal of speeding up on-premises to cloud migrations.
• Configure, support, and manage various AWS Services such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB
• Experience architecting, designing, and deploying AWS solution using container orchestration and management services such as EKS, ECR.
• Promote continual improvement through automation of existing cloud tools & DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve upon existing cloud monitoring tools & alerting for cloud-hosted systems to ensure cloud systems’ availability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency are optimal.
• Automate deployment pipelines in a scalable, secure, and reliable manner using IaC and immutable infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot issues with application deployments.
• Create and maintain knowledge articles, SOPs, and required configuration management artifacts such as build and release artifacts