AWS Cloud Engineer

Gridiron IT is seeking an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Engineer to act as a member of an application development team working with Amazon Services to develop business applications in support of a government customer onsite in Chantilly, VA. The cloud engineer will collaborate with developers, system administrators, Scrum masters, testers, and customers to define requirements, implement cloud-based solutions, and refine cloud systems. This position will also require providing support and troubleshooting issues with existing production cloud environments. MUST HAVE ACTIVE TS/SCI CI PolygraphResponsibilitiesResponsible for researching, designing, developing and/or modifying AWS cloud systems.Responsible for engineering, configuring, testing, and implementing cloud services to support web applications and the hosting environment.Responsible for proposing new cloud services that can be leveraged to benefit the customer’s applications.Responsible for ensuring the implementation of all cloud services is being performed in accordance with industry best practices.Responsible for ensuring the implementation of all cloud services is being performed in accordance with customer’s required security controls and security best practices.Responsible for ensuring the implementation of all cloud services is being performed in the most cost-efficient manner possible.Responsible for writing scripts to configure, implement, and leverage cloud services.Responsible for working with software developers and system administrators to troubleshoot issues within cloud environment and services.Responsible for working with other customer organizations to activate, configure, or troubleshoot cloud services.Qualifications:

An active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph is required to begin employment.AWS Certification (Solutions Architect or SysOps Administrator).Experience with utilizing Amazon Web Services to create cloud-based applications such as (but not limited to) Lambda, SWF, SNS, SQS, Elasticsearch, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, S3, RDS, and Bedrock.Scripting experience using JSON, PowerShell, or other coding as required.3+ years relevant cloud engineering experience.7+ years systems/software engineering experience.Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, or similar.Ability to manage multiple priority tasks.Self-motivated task identification.