Senior AWS Cloud Engineer - Cyber Range & Training Lab

ecsfederal; Virginia (MN); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

ecsfederal is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud - Cyber Range Engineer to join our Arlington, VA team in a hybrid role. You will support a federal cybersecurity training environment and help operate a cloud-hosted CVLE used for interactive labs and training.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in infrastructure/cloud engineering, with 4+ years AWS hands-on experience, and a strong background in IaC, automation, and security compliance for government work.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant infrastructure, cloud, systems, or platform engineering.
• 4+ years of hands-on AWS engineering or operations.
• Experience operating production AWS environments.
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, EBS, security groups, load balancing.
• Experience creating, maintaining, hardening, and deploying AMIs.
• Experience with Windows and Linux server administration.
• Experience supporting virtual machines, virtualized environments, or dynamically provisioned infrastructure.
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Ansible.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex cloud infrastructure and application-hosting issues.
• Working knowledge of cloud security, vulnerability management, patching, logging, monitoring, and configuration management.
• Experience working within federal cybersecurity requirements or other highly regulated environments.
• Ability to independently manage a technical environment while collaborating effectively with engineering, security, training, and government stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain, and optimize an AWS-hosted cybersecurity training and virtual lab environment.
• Assume primary engineering responsibility for the platform following completion of the transition and knowledge-transfer period.
• Maintain availability and reliability of infrastructure supporting cybersecurity training courses, instructors, administrators, and students.
• Manage AWS infrastructure, including compute, networking, storage, identity and access management, monitoring, and security services.
• Develop, maintain, test, and deploy Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and other virtual lab components.
• Support development of new cybersecurity lab environments and promote approved lab images from development into production.
• Manage provisioning and deprovisioning of virtual machines and student lab environments.
• Develop automation to reduce manual configuration, environment setup, reset, provisioning, and administrative activities.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code and configuration-management practices where appropriate.
• Monitor platform health, capacity, performance, security, and availability and troubleshoot infrastructure or application-support issues.
• Maintain the cybersecurity posture of the environment and support continued Authority to Operate (ATO) requirements.
• Identify and remediate Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEVs), critical/high vulnerabilities, security findings, and other government security requirements.
• Support POA&M remediation and provide technical evidence or documentation necessary to demonstrate implementation of security controls.
• Coordinate with cybersecurity training developers, course owners, vendors, security personnel, and government stakeholders.
• Document platform architecture, operational procedures, configurations, dependencies, troubleshooting procedures, and engineering decisions.
• Identify opportunities to improve platform scalability, resilience, automation, cost efficiency, maintainability, and security.

Skills

AWS Cloud

Cloud Infrastructure

Automation

Scripting

Windows & Linux

AMI management

Terraform

CloudFormation

Security & Compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Cybersecurity/Engineering

Tools

EC2

VPC

IAM

S3

CloudWatch

EBS

Load Balancing

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

ecsfederal is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud - Cyber Range Engineer to join our Arlington, VA team in a hybrid role. You will support a federal cybersecurity training environment and help operate a cloud-hosted CVLE used for interactive labs and training.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in infrastructure/cloud engineering, with 4+ years AWS hands-on experience, and a strong background in IaC, automation, and security compliance for government work.