AWS Cloud Engineer

Peraton•Banning, CA

3d•$112,000 - $179,000•Remote

About The Position

Peraton is seeking an AWS Security Engineer to support secure development, modernization, and migration within a government multi-cloud environment. This role requires strong communication skills, extensive AWS and security knowledge, and experience with integration, vulnerability remediation, system analysis, and programming. The engineer will be responsible for resolving complex incidents, providing expert troubleshooting, and performing proactive monitoring of AWS Infrastructure and services. A passion for performance, quality conformance, and attention to detail are essential.

Requirements

Bachelors degree and 12 years of experience or a Masters degree and 10 years of experience or a High School Diploma/Equivalent and 16 years of experience.
Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain/maintain a DHS Public Trust (EOD).
5+ years of experience in cloud services and infrastructure.
3+ years of extensive hands-on experience with automation involving a wide range of AWS services including but not limited to EC2 instances, S3 buckets, VPC configurations, RDS databases, and other services.
Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and resolving high-priority incidents in large, multi-tenant environments.
Exemplary communication, analytical skills, and technical knowledge across the client environment.
Ability to produce concise and clear technical documentation.

Nice To Haves

Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and resolving high-priority incidents in large, multi-tenant environments.
Extensive knowledge and understanding of AWS GovCloud and deploying in Government environments.
Experience with PowerShell, AWS CLI, or other automation scripts to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
AWS Certified SysOps Developer Associate
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Relevant Agile Certification
Red Hat Ansible
AWS Cloud Practitioner

Responsibilities

Harden AWS environments and remediate STIG findings in accordance with NIST SP 800-53 and DHS 4300A requirements.
Maintain and improve the golden image pipeline to ensure compliant baselines.
Serve as an escalation point from Tier 2 support for complex incidents and outages within the AWS GovCloud environment.
Investigate and resolve issues across various AWS services EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, Lambda, and IAM.
Perform root cause analysis to address underlying infrastructure issues and provide solutions to prevent recurrence.
Manage and resolve high-priority incidents, ensuring timely communication with stakeholders and affected tenants.
Continuously monitor tenant environments using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and other tools (Dynatrace, Splunk) to detect performance issues, security incidents, and infrastructure bottlenecks.
Utilize Dynatrace, Splunk, or other proactive monitoring tools to mitigate potential issues before they escalate.
Analyze system performance and recommend optimizations to improve stability, efficiency, and security.
Manage and maintain the AWS infrastructure, including EC2 instances, S3 buckets, VPC configurations, RDS databases, and other services.
Ensure that all tenants’ s AWS resources are secure, FedRAMP compliant, and optimized for performance.
Collaborate with the Architecture team to implement solutions that align with best practices for AWS cloud infrastructure.
Adhere to Change Management procedures.
Collaborate with other team engineers to resolve development issues/incidents and implement improvements.
Document solution designs, process procedures, and lessons learned to enhance team knowledge.
Provide technical mentorship and knowledge sharing to more junior engineers less familiar with pipeline and infrastructure automation.