Cloud Engineer

Ampcus Inc. • Washington, DC

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Ampcus Inc. is seeking a highly motivated Cloud Engineer to join their team. This role will focus on assisting the Client's IT Operations department with designing, developing, documenting, testing, and debugging new configuration management (Terraform) infrastructure as code from scratch. The position will also involve operationalizing AWS and implementing security mechanisms for AWS services. The Cloud Engineer will collaborate with internal teams to architect, engineer, configure, and deploy AWS and other infrastructure technologies, and work closely with System Operations to develop self-service infrastructure provisioning, delivery pipelines, log, and monitoring services. Responsibilities include updating system documentation, collaborating on application and server installations (physical and virtual), and continuously monitoring, fixing, and improving infrastructure. The role also involves operating monitoring, alerting, backups, antivirus, anti-spam, malware, offsite storage, and data mirroring.

Requirements

• Seven (7) to Ten (10) years of directly related experience.
• Three (3) to Five (5) years of operational and/or Qualification and Experience.
• Experience in systems administration and Engineering in a mature Enterprise environment.
• Extensive Terraform experience.
• Extensive AWS Cloud infrastructure environments including ECS, EC2, API, S3, Lambda and others.
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft and Linux server operating systems and networking.
• Extensive knowledge of back-office systems administration such as antivirus, backups, anti-spam, network monitoring tools, and networking equipment.
• Sophisticated understanding of ports, protocols, and routing and switching in a firewalled, wide-area network.
• Experience with Public Cloud infrastructure management.
• Bachelor’s degree with a strong academic record.
• AWS Certification.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Puppet.
• Experience with OpenShift.
• Experience with the Atlassian Suite of products.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, document, test, and debug new configuration management (Terraform) infrastructure as code from scratch.
• Operationalize AWS and implement security mechanisms for AWS services.
• Collaborate with internal teams to architect, engineer, configure and deploy AWS and other infrastructure technologies using approved organizational technologies.
• Work “hand in hand” with System Operations to develop self-service infrastructure provisioning, delivery pipelines, log, and monitoring services.
• Update system documentation as required.
• Collaborate with IT Operations Engineers in installing applications and servers including both physical and virtual types.
• Monitor, fix and improve infrastructure continuously.
• Operates monitoring, alerting, backups, antivirus, anti-spam, malware, etc. as well as offsite storage, and data mirroring.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior