AWS Cloud Operations Engineer

Overview:

AWS Cloud Operations Engineer

Remote | Washington D.C. area candidates preferred

Active Secret Clearance Required

Summary

Our client is an employee and Service-Disabled, Veteran-owned Small Business focused on providing niche technical services. They are a team of experienced cybersecurity professionals with a track record of success in the Federal, Commercial, and Academic workspaces. Additionally, our client designs, builds, operates, and secures scalable cloud and IT infrastructures to meet their customers’ near-term needs and fulfill their long-term requirements.

Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced AWS Operations Engineer to drive our AWS-based operations environment, focusing on EKS, CI/CD, and service automation. The ideal candidate will have robust experience in AWS native services, Kubernetes, and utilizing languages/tools such as Ansible or Python to automate tasks and ensure seamless, automated, and resilient operations in the cloud. Candidate will be expected to be a part of a systems operator team in AWS cloud environment addressing incident issues. Candidate will also be responsible for evaluating current operations tasks, ensuring their properly documented and optimized to lead in converting and automating for systems administrators to execute.

• Optimize the monitoring and overall management of the AWS environments, with a particular emphasis on EKS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, and API Gateway.
• Manage the troubleshooting and maintenance of current CI/CD pipelines and tools (Jenkins/GitLab) per request from other teams.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive tasks, using Ansible, Python, or a language of choice to improve and optimize cloud processes, ensuring the availability, security and scalability of mission applications
• Address identity management and certificate management tasks using RedHat IDM, AWS IAM, and AWS Certificate Manager, ensuring secure access and administration.
• Maintain the current secrets management solutions, primarily using Vault and AWS Secrets Manager.
• Act in a support role for developer teams leveraging the AWS CLI and SDKs for automation, application deployment, and application integrations.
• Identify and Propose updates to the cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Analyze existing processes, recommending, and leading the implementation of best practices to optimize their results.
• Troubleshoot issues in real-time, conducting root cause analyses for platform anomalies and leading postmortem examinations to implement resiliency actions and lessons learned behaviors.
• Collaborate with development teams, providing cloud infrastructure support and guidance to codify intake request processes and promote self-sufficiency where it makes sense.

Requirements

• Solid experience in Red Hat Enterprise Linux or other Linux distributions.

• Proficient in scripting using languages like Python, Perl, or any shell scripting language like BASH.

• In-depth experience building, troubleshooting, and maintaining AWS services, especially EKS, and other AWS native services like Lambda, EC2, RDS, and API Gateway.

• Proficient in using Ansible configuration management and automation.

• Experience with RedHat IDM for identity management and HashiCorp Vault for secrets management.

• Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS CLI, SDKs, and other automation tools.

• Familiarity with standard DevSecOps tools such as Jenkins/GitLab, Git, Nexus, Sonarqube, Terraform, etc.

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Self-driven and capable of working with minimal oversight.

• Team player, providing technical guidance while working with a team to achieve mission objectives and transparency of issues with assigned leadership.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure.

Education/Certification Requirements

• There are no education requirements for this position

Clearance Requirements

• Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; an active Secret clearance is required. Please be aware that onboarding can take 4-6 weeks for this position.