Senior AWS Cloud Engineer - Linux | Remote

Atlas Tech; Texas; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous benefits

ADA accommodations

Job summary

Atlas Tech is seeking a senior AWS Cloud Engineer to join a veteran-owned IT company supporting DoD clients. The role requires hands-on Linux (RHEL 9) and strong AWS expertise, with focus on security, automation, networking, and cost optimization. Fully remote for US residents, with up to 10% travel.

You will manage EC2/VPC/IAM/S3 and related services, implement CI/CD, and ensure compliance with DoD standards. Strong scripting, troubleshooting, and collaboration skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and maintaining secure, scalable, and highly available enterprise architectures in AWS.
• Administration experience with enterprise Linux distributions (RHEL 9), including storage/LVM management, package managers, systemd services, OS patching, user management, and performance tuning.
• Strong operational expertise across foundational AWS services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS, EFS, ELB/ALB, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, RDS, ACM, and Systems Manager.
• Defense-in-depth principles: least-privilege IAM policies, MFA, Security Groups, Network ACLs, cryptographic key management (KMS), and secrets management.
• Diagnose and resolve complex network routing, DNS resolution, subnet configurations, load balancer traffic flow, and private connectivity issues.
• Troubleshoot system-level issues involving CPU bottlenecks, memory, disk I/O, processes, logs, permissions, services, and application connectivity.
• Experience with containerized workloads and orchestration (Docker, EKS/ECS).
• Backup strategies, RTO/RPO, patch cycles, vulnerability remediation, and business continuity.
• FinOps, resource tagging, lifecycle policies, and rightsizing to optimize spend.
• Experience with DISA STIGs, ACAS/SCAP remediation, RMF controls, POA&Ms, and continuous monitoring.
• Strong communication, documentation, collaboration, and leadership in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Administer enterprise Linux systems (RHEL 9) with user access, patching, storage, networking, and performance tuning.
• Configure and manage core AWS resources across EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS/EFS, ELB, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, RDS, ACM, and Systems Manager.
• Automate deployments using Bash, Python, and config management tools.
• Configure and troubleshoot AWS networking components including VPCs, subnets, route tables, DNS, and private connectivity.
• Implement zero-trust and least-privilege security, enforce MFA, manage KMS and Secrets Manager.
• Monitor system availability and performance, create telemetry dashboards, and participate in incident triage.
• Support containerized workloads on EKS/ECS and CI/CD pipelines.
• Oversee cloud capacity, tagging, lifecycle policies, and disaster recovery planning.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, SOPs, runbooks, and baseline configurations.

Skills

Linux systems administration

AWS core services

Scripting (Bash, Python)

Networking & connectivity

Security & compliance

Monitoring & observability

Containers & CI/CD

FinOps / cost optimization

Documentation & SOPs

Disaster recovery planning

Defense-in-depth

DISA STIGs / RMF controls

Leadership & communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Security+ CE (DoD 8140)

AWS Solutions Architect - Associate

RHCE

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Atlas Tech is seeking a senior AWS Cloud Engineer to join a veteran-owned IT company supporting DoD clients. The role requires hands-on Linux (RHEL 9) and strong AWS expertise, with focus on security, automation, networking, and cost optimization. Fully remote for US residents, with up to 10% travel.

You will manage EC2/VPC/IAM/S3 and related services, implement CI/CD, and ensure compliance with DoD standards. Strong scripting, troubleshooting, and collaboration skills are essential.