Cloud Engineer/Application Engineer

CGI•Washington, DC

11h•Onsite

About The Position

CGI Federal, Inc is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to join an existing AWS Infrastructure Engineering team focused on maintenance of asset management systems and other services in AWS GovCloud. Use automation tools and AWS services to both re-platform and refactor existing systems depending on system maturity and customer roadmaps. The candidate will coordinate and collaborate both with their immediate account-based engineering team and with other account teams with similar project scope. The candidate will also have the backing of CGI Federal's partnership with AWS Professional Services. This position is located at a client site office location in Washington, DC. This position is located in Washington, DC.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or master's degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science or a related discipline
0-3 years of relevant experience
Knowledge of networking concepts such as Ports/Protocols/IP
Knowledge of AWS Cloud Administration, Terraform Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, Amazon Machine Images (AMI), AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Certificates Manager, EC2 Scripting, Lambda
Knowledge of AWS Security and Management Services (CloudTrail, CloudWatch, KMS, IAM)
Understanding AWS storage concepts related to EBS and S3
Knowledge of Git for source code version control
Knowledge of at least one programming language (C#, Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Ruby,etc) or shell scripting language (POSIX shell/Bash, PowerShell, etc.)
Ability to develop and contribute while working seamlessly via collaboration tools
Ability to learn quickly, adapt to new technology, and keep current with industry certifications

Nice To Haves

AWS Cloud Practitioner
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or higher

Responsibilities

Deploy AWS EC2 environments through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) as needed to support Test and Development, Production, and Disaster Recovery efforts and distribute major software or architectural updates to existing environments as needed by application teams
Implement and execute the automated deployment of infrastructure within an AWS Environment using tools such as Terraform
Work in Linux instances to troubleshoot issues and manage environment; convert configurations into IaC
Utilize Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to streamline application instance deployment
Identify, assess, and remediate security findings and vulnerabilities using AWS Security Hub, Tenable, etc. Maintain a high security posture within AWS accounts through automation and secure resource templates, such Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), AWS Secrets Manager, and AWS Certificates Manager
Create and configure AWS Security Groups along with IaC environment delivery that narrow access vectors
Apply network configuration (Load Balancer, AWS Transfer Family – SFTP services, define firewall rules) per application architecture requirements
Provision, validate, and track storage allocations per application team requirements (EC2, S3, EFS, etc)
Implement and maintain infrastructure monitoring, alerting, and response (CPU, memory, I/O performance, network throughput)
Work with other support teams to configure required tools for security compliance/monitoring (Splunk, Cloudwatch, CloudTrail, application and server logs)
Work directly with federal customer's engineering and operations teams to collaborate on and execute tasks.
Work independently given objectives and priorities. Clearly document design and implementation decisions. Report status to leadership
Proactively communicate and collaborate on team huddles, status calls, and troubleshooting sessions