AWS Cloud Engineer (Top Secret Cleared)

ECS is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to work in our Washington, DC office.

Job Description:

Interested in joining a dynamic team providing mission critical technical consulting and implementation support to our valuable DoJ partner? As a part of our highly skilled technical team supporting this Agile project you will:

• Work hand-in-hand with our AWS Solutions Architect to configure and implement existing on-prem data warehouse infrastructure to AWS.

• Work in a fast-paced Agile environment with fluid requirements and changing priorities.

• Work closely with application technical teams to ensure successful roll out of the solution to the cloud.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning.

• Follow DevOps best practices to define deployment architecture.

• Pursue container-based solution architecture consistent with industry best practices.

• Provide architectural and design input for network provisioning, connectivity, and security.

• Set-up network and security stack infrastructure such as WAFs, Firewall rules, network security groups, virtual networks, subnets, ExpressRoute, and AWS DirectConnect

• Manage, update, and monitor cloud-based infrastructure, security, and application environments.

Salary Range: $175,000 - $192,000

General Description of Benefits

Required Skills:

• At least 3+ years of DevOps experience

• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (i.e., Gitlab runner, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Github Action etc.)

• Best practice knowledge with setting up automated pipeline triggers

• Proficiency with IaC tools (i.e., Chef, Ansible, Salt, Terraform, pulumi, AWS CDK, etc.)

• Proficiency with GitOps

• Skilled in Linux

• Experience with coding languages such as python

• Understanding of Data Warehousing and back-end databases preferred

• Active Top-Secret clearance required

• 100% on-site in Washington, D.C.

Desired Skills:

• Familiarity with security tools such as ACAS scanners and remediation

• Familiarity with system logging

• Basic understand on networking and routing

• Understanding of SLDC

ECS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. ECS promotes affirmative action for minorities, women, disabled persons, and veterans.

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. We are focused on people, values and purpose. Every day, our 3800+ employees focus on providing their technical talent to support the Federal Agencies and Departments of the US Government to serve, protect and defend the American People.