Senior Cloud Engineer – AWS SME for Modernization

ActioNet, Inc.; Suitland (MD); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Life and AD&D Insurance

401(k) Savings Plan

Education and Professional Training

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Employee Referral and MeritRecognition

Paid Holidays: 11 per year

PTO

Job summary

ActioNet, Inc. seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer – Cloud Engineer SME to lead design, build, and operation of secure, scalable AWS cloud environments supporting modernization efforts in Suitland, MD.

The ideal candidate brings deep AWS engineering skills, strong Python development, and hands-on experience with legacy system assessments, migration planning, and cloud-native implementations aligned with security and governance. This hybrid role requires US citizenship.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, application modernization, or related technical disciplines.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing solutions in AWS.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS networking, compute, storage, security, database, container, and serverless services.
• Advanced Python development experience with production-quality coding, testing, logging, modular design, and secure development practices.
• Experience developing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies.
• Experience assessing legacy applications and infrastructure for cloud migration and modernization.
• Understanding of the 7 Rs migration framework, workload migration strategies, and phased modernization approaches.
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines.
• Strong understanding of containers, serverless computing, managed services, and cloud-native architecture.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, observability, resiliency, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Ability to analyze complex technical dependencies and translate architectural concepts into deployable solutions.
• Strong technical documentation, communication, troubleshooting, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Participate in structured discovery and assessment of legacy applications, infrastructure, dependencies, integrations, batch processes, and data flows.
• Document current-state architectures, system inventories, cloud readiness gaps, modernization constraints, and technical dependencies.
• Evaluate workloads using the 7 Rs migration framework and provide technical input into migration roadmaps, sequencing, and modernization waves.
• Design and implement secure, scalable, highly available AWS cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies.
• Establish repeatable cloud environment patterns for development, testing, staging, and production.
• Implement AWS networking, IAM, encryption, resiliency, backup, disaster recovery, and security controls.
• Develop production-quality Python solutions including serverless functions, automation utilities, orchestration scripts, data transformation tools, and validation services.
• Support modernization and refactoring of legacy Python applications and establish reusable cloud-native development patterns.
• Implement AWS services including Lambda, ECS/EKS, Fargate, Glue, Aurora/PostgreSQL, S3, and AWS Batch.
• Evaluate serverless, containerized, and managed-service architectures based on performance, scalability, cost, and workload requirements.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines incorporating automated builds, testing, security scanning, quality controls, and deployment automation.
• Automate cloud provisioning and deployments to ensure reproducible and version-controlled environments.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, performance baselines, and capacity thresholds.
• Support load testing, scalability validation, operational readiness, and development of runbooks.
• Identify and mitigate integration risks across interdependent applications and cloud environments.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cybersecurity, architecture, and data engineering teams to maintain consistent cloud implementation patterns.
• Support architecture reviews, security assessments, ATO readiness, audit activities, and governance requirements.
• Maintain traceable technical documentation and auditable deployment records.

Job description

ActioNet, Inc. seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer – Cloud Engineer SME to lead design, build, and operation of secure, scalable AWS cloud environments supporting modernization efforts in Suitland, MD.

The ideal candidate brings deep AWS engineering skills, strong Python development, and hands-on experience with legacy system assessments, migration planning, and cloud-native implementations aligned with security and governance. This hybrid role requires US citizenship.