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McIntire Solutions, LLC

Cloud/AWS Engineer

McIntire Solutions, LLC, Chantilly, Virginia, United States, 22021


Seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Engineer, Senior to join our team in the Chantilly, Virginia or Denver Colorado area. \

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Performs engineering support and system administration of specialized cybersecurity applications and big data analytical systems to include installation, configuration, performance tuning, migration, troubleshooting, updates, and training

Assume a technical role in the administration and management of infrastructure solutions that are deployed in AWS in accordance with Security Guidelines

Integrate AWS into various databases, applications, and services by collaborating with Database Administrators and DevOps teams.

Use AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) to deploy, troubleshoot and customize cloud resources.

Design, customize, and document services based on COTS products using Agile development approaches and methodologies

Installing, configuring, maintaining and supporting applications and servers

Performing operating system and software installation, testing, patching and upgrades

Monitoring the Heath of internal environment and connections

Research new technologies that are applicable to current projects and make recommendations to improve performance, optimize operations, and reduce costs.

Assist with AWS technical designs and documentation

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in the fields of computer science, computer engineering, or any related field

Must possess the required DoD Directive 8570 IAT Level II or higher certification

Minimum of 5 years relevant technical experience.

3+ years specifically operating and managing AWS infrastructure.

AWS expertise (EC2, Accounts, VPC, Security Groups, EBS, etc.)

Knowledge of AWS user, security, and networking configurations.

Experience managing enterprise scale solutions that leverage the following AWS Services: EC2, S3, CloudFormation, RDS, CloudFront, VPC, Route53, IAM, CloudWatch, Beanstalk, Lambda, etc.

Experience in Linux scripting and automation using Bash, Python and/or Java

Experience with engineering and administrating the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats)

Experience with Container Services like Docker and Kubernetes

Experience with automation tools including Puppet, Chef, and Ansible

DevOps experience of management of work within Sprint and Increment Planning

Working knowledge of JIRA, Git and Confluence

Ability to understand requirements (user stories) received and plan a workable solution that meets the customers need.

Experience scripting against AWS CLI.

Strong debugging experience

Understanding the needs for new initiative to build scalable, distributed and high-performance cloud environment.

Preferred Qualifications

AWS or other Cloud Based Certifications.

Experience developing custom visualizations and dashboards (preferably in Kibana)

Experience with implementation and maintaining event streaming technologies, such as Apache or Confluent Kafka

Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and Git

Experience with JSON, NodeJS, AngularJS, and DB/data query

Logical problem-solving approach and the ability to clearly communicate technical system status, concepts, and proposed solutions to the customer

Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to present in a group setting

Possesses a sense of urgency, strong organizational and problem solving skills

Ability to work as an individual as well as with a team for supporting the overall project planning, integration and implementation.

Familiarity with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Softare

Security Clearance Requirements:

TS/SCI with CI Polygraph

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