AWS Cloud Engineer

Leidos; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is hiring an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to support the Compartmented Enterprise Services Office in Arlington, VA. Candidates should have strong skills in AWS technologies and cloud architecture. Responsibilities include designing AWS solutions, automating deployments, and participating in Agile processes.

The ideal candidate has a BA/BS, at least 5 years of IT experience, and specific knowledge in various cloud tools and scripting. This position necessitates a TS/SCI clearance, and it's 100% on-site with occasional travel.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in IT, particularly in cloud environments.
• Experience with AWS and cloud services with architectural design knowledge.
• Technical writing for documentation and delivery of approaches for testing.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud capabilities.
• Automate system deployments and operational tasks using scripting languages.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and use Jira for task tracking.

Skills

AWS Cloud Technologies

Infrastructure as Code

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Education

BA/BS in Information Technology

Tools

EC2

S3

CloudFormation

Git

Docker

Job description

Description

Leidos is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to support the Compartmented Enterprise Services Office (CESO) effort. This person should be a seasoned, self‑motivated, and professional with at least 5 years of hands‑on engineering and administration experience in virtualized Information Technology environments. Experience with infrastructure as code environments, automating patches and system configurations, and with designing and engineering commercial cloud environments, architectures, and designs is preferred.

This position is 100% on‑site in Arlington, VA. Occasional, situational travel within the DC‑Metro area may be required.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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 Programming (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).
• IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g., CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

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

ABOUT OUR PROGRAM

With the CESO effort, the Defense Information System Agency (DISA) is looking to transform the existing Secure Web Services (SWS) environment, used to provide secure information sharing to the community, into a more mature service offering to meet the DoD and IC community. The program will support an automated platform capable of supporting a rapidly expanding customer population.

EEO STATEMENT

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

REQUIREMENT NUMBER

REQNUMBER: R-00183759

LEGAL STATEMENTS

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.