Cloud Engineer SME

Ignite IT; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

A technology company is seeking a skilled Cloud Engineer Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Maryland. The ideal candidate will design and implement cloud solutions, particularly focusing on AWS services. Responsibilities include conducting cloud readiness assessments, architecting solutions, and engaging with customers for tailored migration strategies. Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of AWS experience. The role requires occasional onsite presence in Suitland, Maryland. Competitive benefits include a 401(k) plan and health insurance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cloud architecture with a focus on AWS services.
• Proven experience designing and implementing cloud-native applications.
• Strong skills in automated deployments using IaC tools.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cloud readiness assessments and create migration plans to facilitate smooth transitions.
• Design scalable cloud solutions using AWS services.
• Engage with customers to gather requirements and provide tailored solutions.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS services

Application migration strategies

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Aurora, Lambda)

Terraform

CloudFormation

OpenSearch

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Engineer Subject Matter Expert (SME) to join our team. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in designing and implementing solutions for migrating and sustaining large data discovery and analytics applications to the cloud using cloud-native technologies. This role will focus on customer engagement to deeply understand their applications and collaborate with engineering teams 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.
• Engage with customers to gather requirements, understand their application architecture, and provide tailored cloud migration strategies.
• 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
• Provide guidance on best practices for cloud application design, deployment, and optimization including through use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Provide expertise and support for migrations from on-premises computing infrastructure to AWS cloud ensuring data integrity, minimal downtime, and high availability.
• Provide architectural guidance to development teams on operational issues involving database design and implementation.
• 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.
• Experience modernizing and operating cloud computing environments supporting applications that leverage J2EE, Tomcat, Oracle RAC, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Aurora, ElasticSearch, OpenSearch ensuring data integrity, minimal downtime, and high availability.
• Provide expertise and support to architect cloud-native Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes utilizing AWS Step Functions, Lamda, and Eventbrite for improved automation and maintainability.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• US Citizen; Ability to obtain a Public Trust security clearance.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing cloud-native applications.
• Strong understanding of application migration strategies and tools.
• Excellent knowledge of AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Aurora, Lambda, etc.) 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 with large data search and discovery applications (e.g., OpenSearch) highly preferred.
• Experience supporting federal government organizations and missions is highly preferred.
• Ability to be onsite in Suitland Maryland 2-5 days a week

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance