AWS Cloud Engineer

RMantra Solutions Inc.; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

RMantra Solutions in Arlington, VA seeks an experienced IT engineer for a 100% onsite role focused on AWS cloud infrastructure, IaC, and deployment automation. You will design, implement, and maintain cloud architecture while ensuring security and compliance for sensitive environments.

Requirements include a TS/SCI clearance with CI Poly eligibility, 8–12 years in IT, and hands-on AWS/IaC experience. Travel is occasional; team uses Agile ceremonies and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Must have a TS/SCI with CI Poly eligibility.
• 8–12 years in Information Technology with cloud experience.
• Hands-on AWS Cloud Technologies and IaC concepts.

Responsibilities

• Provide continuous development and CI to include deployment automation.
• Design and maintain AWS-based architecture using IaC tools.
• Configure core AWS services and manage security/compliance.
• Automate deployments and operational tasks with scripting.
• Produce technical documentation and runbooks.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and release management.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Cloud architecture

CI/CD

Education

BA/BS in Information Technology

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

CloudFormation

JMeter

Docker

Git

AWS SDK

Job description

This position is 100% Onsite. This position is in Arlington, VA, with occasional/situational travel.

Certificate

Location:

Schedule

100% onsite

Clearance

US Citizens withDOD Top Secret/SCI

• Provide continuous development and continuous integration to include operational engineering and integration, release management, implementation & migration, and training & knowledge transfer.
• Design, build, and maintain capabilities utilizing the current Amazon C2S enabled architecture and tools to include Ansible, Cloud Formation, EC2, ELB, RDS, Lambda, S3, Terraform, and containerization.
• Configure and manage core AWS services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, KMS, and Config.
• Operate and improve reliability/availability through monitoring, alerting, incident response, and continual service improvement.
• Automate system deployments and operational tasks using scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Document and deliver an approach for automated testing including integration, regression, and acceptance testing, including tools and processes.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation (build guides, runbooks, diagrams, and operational procedures).
• Manage, sustain, and improve the integration and testing environments on the unclassified and classified infrastructure both on premise and in the cloud to validate all capabilities and technologies prior to being deployed on the production environment.
• Stage new and upgraded services components or services to integration and testing environment.
• Develop and engineer improvements to the cloud infrastructure and architecture to support continuous development and continuous integration utilizing modern practices and tools.
• Support and perform deployment orchestration, automation, and security configuration management (i.e., CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Bitbucket).
• Maintain documentation of code developed in support of CESO environments.
• Support patching, logging, vulnerability scanning, and compliance tracking.
• Participate in the release management process.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) and Jira-based task tracking.
• Develop automation to reduce manual operations (provisioning, patching, backups, scaling, routine maintenance.

Basic Qualifications

• Candidate must currently have a TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI Poly.
• BA/BS and 8-12 years of experience in Information Technology.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud services reinforced with architectural design experience.
• 4 years’ extensive experience in AWS Cloud Technologies and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
• 4 years’ experience in implementing Amazon C2S enabled architectures and tools to include Ansible, Cloud Formations, Terraform, JMETER, EC2, ELB, RDS, Lambda, Docker, GIT and S3.
• 4 years’ experience in building end-to-end solutions on AWS leveraging Object Oriented Programing (OOP) programming. (Python, Ruby, Java, PHP) and AWS SDK.
• Experience with deployment orchestration, automation, and security configuration management (i.e., CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Bitbucket)

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with DISA and DISA’s support to mission partners.
• Experience or familiarity with Citrix VDI/VDA.

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