Senior Cloud Systems Engineer.

Ampcus Inc. • Washington, DC

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Ampcus Inc. is seeking a highly motivated Senior Cloud Systems Engineer to join their talented team. The C &CA Systems team is looking for cloud professionals proficient in administering the AWS GovCloud service platform. This role involves building a cloud business platform within the Client environment. The position requires at least five years of demonstrated experience supporting cloud platforms, with a total of 10 years of experience in technology, including application development, and 5 of those years focused on supporting cloud technologies.

Requirements

• 10 years of experience in the field of technology including application development, 5 of which focused on supporting cloud technologies.
• Developing software according to software development lifecycles (SDLCs), including DevOps, Agile, Lean, or Iterative.
• Designing, deploying, and migrating secure and maintainable systems for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) environments.
• Proficient in at least one high-level programming language such as Python, PowerShell, or Infrastructure as Code (AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform, etc.).
• Python 3.x data engineering with pandas, Databricks, or SPARK preferred.
• DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and automation, containers, and related best practices for cloud deployment.
• Experience with GitLab or Azure DevOps preferred.
• Service offerings in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and government platform experience preferred.
• Understanding of cloud-based architecture, web servers, caching, application servers, load balancers, and storage.
• Experience with AWS Load Balancer.
• Familiarity with loose coupling, stateless systems, and best practices for designing cloud-ready applications.
• Understanding of cloud federation technologies such as SAML, Okta, OAuth, and OpenID Connect and how to apply these technologies to enterprise and public-facing applications.
• Understanding of cloud vendor cost structures and the ability to optimize solutions for cost effectiveness.
• Experience transitioning legacy systems to cloud-ready architecture.
• Understanding of RESTful Web Services, XML, or JSON.
• Experience with AWS API Gateway.
• Awareness of cloud information security risks and best practices, especially in a highly secure operating environment.
• Familiarity with government cloud deployments (FedRAMP, FISMA, high security environments, etc.).

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or related field.
• Experience with direct configuration and management of AWS components, including CloudTrail, CloudWatch, S3, RDS or Aurora, PostgreSQL, Lambda, Glue or MWAA (Airflow).
• Experience with designing or implementing cloud architectures for analytics/data processing/machine learning use-cases, such as data lakes, lake formations, etc.
• Experience with containerization as a strategy for cloud-enabling legacy applications such as Docker and Kubernetes (AWS EKS, ECS, or Fargate preferred).
• Familiarity with the Well Architected Framework.
• Experience with defining platform requirements.
• Experience integrating with enterprise observability platforms such as Splunk.
• Experience with Data Quality testing tooling (e.g., Great Expectations, Glue Data Quality).

Responsibilities

• Design and create custom build cloud applications.
• Set up and configure DevSecOps for cloud environments.
• Partner with the cloud platform team and development team to build, manage, and enable the underlying cloud infrastructure and platforms in support of a business application development project.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree