AWS Cloud Engineer | Automation, Security & Migrations

The Judge Group; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 41,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

The Judge Group is seeking an AWS Solutions Engineer to support and evolve AWS infrastructure in Reston, VA. You will work on EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, and more, applying infrastructure-as-code and automation to improve availability and security.

With 1–3 years of relevant experience and a degree in information systems, you will learn from senior engineers, handle incident responses, and gradually own cloud service workstreams while documenting changes and configurations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems or a related field, with 1–3 years of experience.
• Ability to obtain public trust clearance.
• Ability to independently manage work and document technical activities.
• Experience building AWS solutions aligned with well-architected frameworks.
• Fundamental networking knowledge (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, subnets, firewalls).
• Basic understanding of infrastructure security and system hardening.
• Hands-on experience with CloudFormation, Terraform, Python, or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Support AWS infrastructure including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, load balancing, DNS, and related services.
• Implement infrastructure changes using architecture, procedures, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Maintain and modify Terraform and/or CloudFormation configurations under guidance from senior engineers.
• Monitor cloud resources and investigate availability, performance, configuration, and security issues.
• Troubleshoot networking, OS, application connectivity, permissions, DNS, and cloud-service issues.
• Support vulnerability remediation, patching, configuration compliance, and security hardening activities.
• Assist with cloud migrations, modernization, disaster recovery, and lifecycle activities.
• Develop scripts and automation to reduce repetitive tasks.
• Maintain technical documentation, diagrams, procedures, and change records.
• Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Learn cloud architecture, security, networking, automation, and operations from seniors.
• Gradually own cloud services and workstreams as experience grows.

Skills

AWS infra

Terraform

CloudFormation

Python

Networking

Security hardening

Automation scripting

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in information systems

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Python

Job description

The Judge Group is seeking an AWS Solutions Engineer to support and evolve AWS infrastructure in Reston, VA. You will work on EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, and more, applying infrastructure-as-code and automation to improve availability and security.

With 1–3 years of relevant experience and a degree in information systems, you will learn from senior engineers, handle incident responses, and gradually own cloud service workstreams while documenting changes and configurations.