Cloud Engineer

Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer Location: Reston, VA (Onsite) Duration: 6-12 Months+ Defines, designs and develops system requirements. Performs trade-off analysis of performance, life-cycle cost, risk, producibility, and other system or program requirements. Assesses architecture and current hardware limitations, defines and designs system specifications, and evaluates input/output processes and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility. Coordinates design of subsystems and integration of total system. Defines system support requirements to include monitoring, capacity, staffing and patching/updating. Analyzes and resolves program support deficiencies. Conducts independent technical investigations in systems design. Seeking experienced and dynamic AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to provide hands-on technical expertise for supporting our AWS footprint, including Security and Guardrails. As an AWS Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and integrating our cloud platform resources on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You will collaborate with a team of talented cloud engineers and technology teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure cloud solutions that support our company's growth and innovation. Required Experience: Minimum of 10years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Platform engineering and Administration. Strong Leadership experience with driving Transformation initiatives 3-5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering role Experience with SRE principles and transformation 3+ years of experience with Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure etc.), DevOps tool chain (Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc.) Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python. Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Dev, Architects, Engineers) Platform Engineering Lead with Hands -on Experience: Building robust Middleware Environments Previous Linux System administration is required. Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS etc. Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production level experience in AWS Cloud. Hands on experience with Automation and Infrastructure Provisioning is a must –Our goal is to only provision infrastructure with Code, and Policy As Code. Must be familiar with Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code. Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and CDK is required. Must have hands on experience in writing Lambda functions preferably in Python (Boto3). Must be well versed in writing Linux Bash scripts. Minimum of One AWS certification is required.