Senior AWS Cloud Engineer - Linux (Remote)

Atlas Technologies, Inc.; Alexandria (VA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlas Tech is seeking a senior, hands-on AWS Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable AWS-based enterprise architectures. The role emphasizes Linux systems administration (RHEL 9), core AWS services, security, and automation in a remote setting across the United States.

Ideal candidates have DoD program experience, strong troubleshooting and documentation skills, and a commitment to quality and continuous improvement. Travel up to 10% is expected.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and maintaining secure, scalable AWS-based enterprise architectures.
• Experience with Linux enterprise environments, including storage, patching, and performance tuning.
• Proven ability to implement defense-in-depth controls: MFA, IAM, SGs, NACLs, and encryption.

Responsibilities

• Administer enterprise Linux systems, patching, storage, networking, and performance tuning.
• Manage core AWS resources: EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS/EFS, RDS, CloudWatch, Config, Secrets Manager (SSM).
• Develop automation scripts (Bash, Python) to standardize deployments.
• Configure and troubleshoot AWS networking (VPCs, subnets, DNS, transit gateways, load balancers).
• Support container workloads on EKS/ECS and CI/CD pipelines.
• Oversee cost optimization, tagging, lifecycle policies, and disaster recovery planning.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, SOPs, and runbooks.

Skills

AWS cloud engineering

Linux administration

Networking & DNS

Security & IAM

Automation & scripting

CI/CD & DevOps

FinOps / cost optimization

Documentation & SOPs

Agile collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS or related field

Security+ CE or CISSP (preferred)

DoD 8140 qualification or ability to obtain

AWS Solutions Architect - Associate

RHCE or equivalent certification

Tools

Docker

Amazon EKS/ECS

RHEL 9

Job description

Atlas Tech is seeking a senior, hands-on AWS Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable AWS-based enterprise architectures. The role emphasizes Linux systems administration (RHEL 9), core AWS services, security, and automation in a remote setting across the United States.

Ideal candidates have DoD program experience, strong troubleshooting and documentation skills, and a commitment to quality and continuous improvement. Travel up to 10% is expected.