Cloud Engineer - AWS (Federal Environment)
Private Label Staff
Mid-Level AWS Cloud Engineer / Systems Administrator
We are seeking a Mid-Level AWS Cloud Engineer / Systems Administrator to support the design, implementation, and maintenance of a secure, scalable AWS GovCloud environment. This role will play a key part in cloud migration initiatives, ongoing operations, and ensuring compliance with federal security standards.
This is a remote position supporting a federal environment. Candidates must be eligible to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable AWS cloud environments
- Translate business and technical requirements into effective cloud architecture solutions
- Support cloud migration efforts, including planning, data transfer, and workload refactoring
- Manage and optimize AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation)
- Monitor system performance, ensuring high availability and reliability (targeting 99.999% uptime)
- Implement security controls, compliance frameworks, and monitoring solutions
- Collaborate with developers and data engineers to integrate applications and cloud services
- Automate infrastructure and processes using scripting and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures
- Perform system patching, upgrades, and continuous monitoring
- Support disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution
- Contribute to Agile development cycles, including planning, troubleshooting, and deployment
Required Qualifications
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
- 2+ years of experience in cloud engineering, systems administration, or cloud architecture
- Hands-on experience with AWS GovCloud and core AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation, CloudWatch)
- Strong understanding of cloud security principles and compliance frameworks
- Experience with cloud migration and hybrid/multi-cloud environments
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS)
- Proficiency in scripting or automation (Python, Bash, or similar)
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
- Familiarity with AWS data and analytics tools (Redshift, Athena, etc.)
- Experience supporting federal government or law enforcement environments
- Experience deploying and managing containerized applications in Kubernetes
- Hands-on experience with Amazon EKS and cloud-native application modernization
Environment & Scope
- Support AWS-hosted infrastructure for a federal agency environment
- Participate in a multi-year cloud migration and modernization initiative
- Provide operations, maintenance, and monitoring of production systems
- Ensure compliance, auditing, and reporting requirements are met
- Deliver documentation and knowledge transfer to internal stakeholders
What Success Looks Like
- Successful migration of critical workloads to AWS
- Highly available, secure, and optimized cloud environment
- Strong documentation, monitoring, and disaster recovery processes in place
- Seamless collaboration across engineering, data, and security teams
Vacancy posted 27 days ago
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