AWS Cloud Systems Engineer - Secret Clearance
About The Position
The AWS Cloud Systems Engineer provides cloud operations and engineering support to enhance, sustain, and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure solutions in AWS environments. The role involves maintaining cloud performance, security, and user experience; developing cloud strategies and roadmaps; evaluating emerging technologies; and advancing automation and DevOps practices. The engineer supports secure cloud architecture design and sustainment, including zero-trust principles, defense in depth, compliance, networking security controls, identity and access management, and security monitoring. The role also supports customer onboarding, cloud adoption, legacy-system modernization, migration planning, application containerization, and Shared Services development. The position manages and optimizes AWS environments, networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, and SQL systems. It implements and maintains CI/CD workflows and infrastructure as code using tools including Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, and Guacamole, and configures and troubleshoots cloud, virtual, and physical hardware and software.
Responsibilities
- Provide cloud operations and engineering to enhance, sustain, and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure AWS cloud solutions.
- Perform AWS cloud operations, sustainment, and maintenance to maintain cloud performance, security, and user experience.
- Develop cloud strategies and roadmaps aligned with organizational objectives and technical requirements.
- Evaluate emerging cloud technologies, maximize automation, and assess potential impacts on organizational and program goals.
- Drive adoption of DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks.
- Optimize application performance and reliability in cloud environments.
- Support the design, implementation, and sustainment of secure cloud architectures using zero-trust principles and defense-in-depth strategies.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements, including SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.
- Architect, implement, and maintain cloud networking security controls, including STIG requirements.
- Implement identity and access management solutions and security monitoring frameworks.
- Facilitate customer onboarding and implement a consistent pathway to cloud adoption.
- Assess legacy systems and design modernization strategies, including containerization and microservices.
- Support development of migration methodologies and minimize organizational disruption during transitions.
- Manage and optimize AWS environments, networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, and SQL systems.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD workflows and infrastructure-as-code development to support DevSecOps practices.
- Containerize applications to improve scalability and deployment efficiency.
- Support the design and development of Shared Services.
- Configure and troubleshoot cloud, virtual, and physical hardware and software.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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