Cloud Engineer | Req#4588

ActioNet, Inc.; Vienna (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life and AD&D Insurance

401(k) Savings Plan

Education and Professional Training

Flexible Spending Accounts

Employee Referral and Merit Recognition Programs

Employee Assistance

Paid Holidays: 11 per year

Paid Time Off

Disability Insurance

Job summary

ActioNet, Inc. is seeking a Cloud Engineer in Vienna, Virginia to join a team focused on delivering advanced cloud-native data analytics solutions. This role involves designing and implementing scalable architectures on AWS, coordinating migrations from on-premises systems, and evaluating enterprise-level database systems. A Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of cloud architecture experience, particularly with AWS, are required. The position offers comprehensive benefits, including medical and 401(k) plans, plus paid time off.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cloud architecture with a focus on AWS services.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust security clearance.
• Strong understanding of application migration strategies and tools.
• AWS Certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cloud readiness assessments and create migration plans.
• Design and architect scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions.
• Support architecting large scale cloud-native data processing ETL workloads.
• Provide expertise for migrations from on-premises to AWS cloud.
• Engage with customers to gather requirements for migration strategies.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS services

Application migration strategies

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Amazon S3

Amazon EMR

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

ActioNet has an exciting opportunity for a Cloud Engineer to join our interdisciplinary team to deliver the next generation of cloud-native data analytics and production systems for one of the nation’s leading public data sources. The Cloud Engineer will collaborate with play a key role in designing and building solutions that transform legacy on-premises systems to new scalable cloud-native architectures to support dynamic automated data production pipelines, dissemination platforms, and web-based analytics dashboards for a wide range of analysis and reporting needs. This role will focus on building highly scalable solutions in AWS leveraging infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) best practices and involve significant customer engagement to understand applications and to ensure successful deployments.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct cloud readiness assessments and create migration plans to facilitate smooth transitions to AWS.
• Design and architect scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions on AWS, utilizing cloud-native technologies.
• Support architecting and implementing large scale cloud-native data processing ETL workloads using AWS services
• Provide SME recommendations for big data storing solutions, installations, and configurations while ensuring scaling needs.
• Support database analysis, architecture, design, development, administration and capacity/storage, implementation, and operations of multi-terabytes scalable enterprise end-to-end backend database systems.
• Provide expertise and support for migrations from on-premises computing infrastructure to AWS cloud ensuring data integrity, minimal downtime, and high availability.
• Provide guidance on best practices for cloud application design, deployment, and optimization including through use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Engage with customers to gather requirements, understand their application architecture, and provide tailored cloud migration strategies and collaborate closely with engineering teams to ensure the seamless deployment of applications and services.
• Configure and implement Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate builds, testing, and deployment in the AWS environment
• Stay updated on emerging cloud technologies and industry trends to continually enhance our service offerings.
• Lead and mentor team members in implementing cloud solutions, ensuring adherence to architectural standards.
• Review security scans, accessibility audits, and performance testing to ensure full compliance with cybersecurity requirements; and, review results and provide mitigation or improvement plans where necessary and support the implementation of remediation activities to resolve and identified issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in cloud architecture, with a strong focus on AWS services.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust security clearance - US Citizenship for Eligibility
• Proven experience in designing and implementing cloud-native applications.
• Strong understanding of application migration strategies and tools.
• Excellent knowledge of AWS services (S3, EMR, Glue, Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Athena, Redshift, SageMaker, QuickSight) and best practices.
• Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes) and serverless architectures.
• Strong skills leveraging IaC developing automated deployment and orchestrations solutions using TerraForm, CloudFormation, and other scripting tools.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to engage effectively with customers and teams.
• AWS Certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect) is highly preferred.
• Experience supporting federal government organizations and missions is highly preferred.

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Education and Professional Training
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Employee Referral and Merit Recognition Programs
• Employee Assistance and Identity Theft Protection
• Paid Holidays: 11 per year
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Disability Insurance

ActioNet is an equal-opportunity employer and values inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.