Senior Cloud Systems Engineer.

Ampcus Inc; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm based in Washington, DC, is seeking a Senior Cloud Systems Engineer. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with AWS GovCloud and DevOps practices. Responsibilities include designing cloud applications and collaborating with teams to manage cloud infrastructure for application development. A Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field is required, along with strong skills in Python and CI/CD pipelines. This position also emphasizes cloud security and legacy system transitions.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience in technology including 5 focused on cloud technologies.
• Experience transitioning legacy systems to cloud architecture.
• Understanding of cloud federation technologies like SAML and Okta.

Responsibilities

• Design and create custom build cloud applications.
• Set up and configure DevSecOps for cloud environments.
• Work with platform and development teams for cloud infrastructure.

Skills

AWS GovCloud

DevOps

Python

GitLab

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud security best practices

Docker

Kubernetes

RESTful Web Services

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

AWS Lambda

AWS API Gateway

PostgreSQL

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Azure DevOps

Splunk

Job description

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.

Job Title: Senior Cloud Systems Engineer.

Location: Washington, DC.

Job Description

• The C &CA Systems team is seeking cloud professionals proficient in administering AWS GovCloud cloud service platform. Become part of a team responsible for building a cloud business platform within the Client.
• At least five years of demonstrated experience supporting cloud platforms. As a Senior Cloud Systems Engineer, we require 10 years of experience in the field of technology including application development, 5 of which focused on supporting cloud technologies.

Requirements

The candidate shall possess the knowledge and skills set forth in the Technical Services for Senior Cloud Systems Engineer.

The candidate shall also demonstrate the knowledge and experience below:

• Developing software according to software development lifecycles (SDLCs), including DevOps, Agile, Lean, or Iterative.
• Designing, deploying, and migrating secure and maintainable systems for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) environment.
• Proficient in at least one high-level programming language such as Python, PowerShell, or Infrastructure as Code (AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform, etc.). Python 3.x data engineering with pandas, Databricks, or SPARK preferred.
• DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and automation, containers, and related best practices for cloud deployment. Experience with GitLab or Azure DevOps preferred.
• Service offerings in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and government platform experience preferred.
• Understanding of cloud-based architecture, web servers, caching, application servers, load balancers, and storage. Experience with AWS Load Balancer.
• Familiarity with loose coupling, stateless systems, and best practices for designing cloud-ready applications.
• Understanding of cloud federation technologies such as SAML, Okta, OAuth, and OpenID Connect and how to apply these technologies to enterprise and public-facing applications.
• Understanding of cloud vendor cost structures and the ability to optimize solutions for cost effectiveness.
• Experience transitioning legacy systems to cloud-ready architecture.
• Understanding of RESTful Web Services, XML, or JSON. Experience with AWS API Gateway.
• Awareness of cloud information security risks and best practices, especially in a highly secure operating environment.
• Familiarity with government cloud deployments (FedRAMP, FISMA, high security environments, etc.)

Highly Desirable Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or related field.
• Experience with direct configuration and management of AWS components, including CloudTrail, CloudWatch, S3, RDS or Aurora, PostgreSQL, Lambda, Glue or MWAA (Airflow).
• Experience with designing or implementing cloud architectures for analytics/data processing/machine learning use-cases, such as data lakes, lake formations, etc.
• Experience with containerization as a strategy for cloud-enabling legacy applications such as Docker and Kubernetes (AWS EKS, ECS, or Fargate preferred).
• Familiarity with the Well Architected Framework.
• Experience with defining platform requirements.
• Experience integrating with enterprise observability platforms such as Splunk.
• Experience with Data Quality testing tooling (e.g., Great Expectations, Glue Data Quality).

The Contractor shall deliver, but not limited to, the following:

• Design and create custom build cloud applications.
• Set up and configure DevSecOps for cloud environments.
• Partner with the cloud platform team and development team to build, manage, and enable the underlying cloud infrastructure and platforms in support of a business application development project.

Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.