Remote: N
Salary: $70-80/hr
Location: Arlington, VA
Clearance: Secret
Job Description:
We are seeking a Sr. Cloud Automation Engineer (AWS) to design, develop, implement, and sustain automated cloud-based infrastructure solutions.
Qualifications:
- Must have an active DoD SECRET clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
- Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability prior to starting employment
- Must have 8+ years of applicable experience such as allocation of hardware and software requirements, development of use cases and stories, detailed design of system components, and direct automation / orchestration experience with larger systems
- Able to effectively work as a leader, in a group, or as an independent individual contributor
- Experience working in an Agile development environment
- Possesses or quickly develops a comprehensive understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines
- Direct experience with scripting in JSON & Python
- Expertise in provisioning and deletion of cloud infrastructure within AWS
- Advanced experience with AWS cloud deployment and management tools including, but not limited to: Control tower, VPN, Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), VPC, Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Amazon Machine Images (AMI), Simple Notification Service (SNS), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Simple Storage Service (S3) and other AWS native services
- Expertise in automation of infrastructure – deployment, configuration, and orchestration to include: design, implementation and use of IaC Pipelines and workflows specifically Terraform.
- Knowledge and experience working with the following tools: Jira, confluence and Github
- Knowledge and experience working with the MacOS or Linux command line shells such as bash
- Creation, deletion, and modification of privileges of system user accounts
- Perform periodic audits of existing user accounts and privileges; coordinate with security team to address findings that are not in accordance with security policies
- Knowledge in identity and access management (IAM) and certificate management principles and best practices
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a member of an Agile/ DevOps development team to support automated creation and maintenance of Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Provide automation expertise in support of advanced cloud infrastructure solutions using a Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline
- Provide guidance on cloud native capabilities, Identity and Access Management (IAM), certificate management, Virtual Private Network (VPN) access to AWS Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) and cloud-based security controls
- Develop or update documentation for Playbooks, Runbooks and GitHub repository
- Troubleshooting user issues with cloud services or access to cloud resources
