Principal Cloud Engineer

TekSynap•Washington, DC

19h•$160,000 - $190,000•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to join our team. TekSynap is a fast-growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. “Technology moving at the speed of thought” embodies these principles – the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.

Requirements

12+ years experience in information technology with 8+ years of focused, hands on experience deploying/configuring workloads within either AWS or Azure – preferred experience is DevOps focused
Professional Architect Certification within either AWS or Azure
Hands-on experience installing, configuring, upgrading, and administering Kion in AWS environments, including organizational units, account structures, projects, compliance scores, financial guardrails, and cloud provider integrations (AWS, Azure, OCI, and GCP).
Experience with AWS FinOps tools, including AWS Billing Conductor, Cost Explorer, cloud cost allocation, and identifying resource waste and cost optimization opportunities.
Hands-on experience developing AWS CloudFormation Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates for automated infrastructure deployment.
Experience managing and optimizing AWS services, including Amazon ECS, Application Load Balancers (ALB), and Amazon RDS, with responsibility for scaling, high availability, patching, and performance optimization.
Experience managing AWS Commercial and GovCloud environments across multiple regions.
Understanding of FedRAMP requirements, cloud governance, and cloud engineering best practices in AWS and multi-cloud environments.
Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with DevOps, Cloud Engineering, and cross-functional teams to deliver cloud solutions.
Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, including sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases.
Strong understanding of cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, and operational best practices across enterprise cloud environments.
Candidate must be a U.S. Citizen
Must be able to obtain a Public Trust

Responsibilities

Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code first approach with sufficient comments and structure
Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions
Diagnosing and resolving complex performance, security, and/or technical challenges
Supporting all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams
Identifying opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities
Creating/updating cloud environment configurations within Kion to establish/support application workloads, including Azure Focused: Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls
Creating/updating cloud environment configurations within Kion to establish/support application workloads, including AWS Focused: Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53