Senior Associate, Software Engineering (AWS Cloud)

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Job Title: Senior Associate, Software Engineering (AWS Cloud)

Job Code: 39063

Job Location: Melbourne, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80 (Every other Friday off)

Job Description:

The SDA T2 infrastructure team leverages Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) in delivering modern solutions to support customer operations and information management services. We value a strong knowledge of software development best practices and experience delivering & deploying Cloud-ready applications and services. Seeking software engineers to join our dynamic team, focusing on operating, maintaining, and sustaining an AWS cloud operational system.

Essential Functions:

• Monitor and implement updates from AWS and third-party suppliers
• Maintain and enhance our Kubernetes-based cloud architecture
• Implement and maintain security automation using AWS EventBridge, GuardDuty, and Inspector
• Support Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions using Keycloak
• Assist in migrating third-party toolchains to AWS native solutions
• Write and maintain comprehensive documentation for developers, administrators, and operators
• Ensuring consistency across the baseline (version tagging, naming schemes)
• Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 6 years of prior related experience.
• Experience developing and deploying containerized applications using Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, or equivalent.
• Experience with AWS services
• Experience of networking principles and security best practices in an AWS cloud environment
• Experience with Linux environments, including scripting, configuration, and software deployment.
• Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet) and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CDK, OpenTofu, Cloud Formation).

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Familiarity with Agile workflow tools and collaborative versioncontrol practices (Git, JIRA, Confluence, etc.)
• Experience with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• Experience managing licenses within cloud environments
• Experience with monitoring and logging solutions (Splunk sidecar, CloudWatch, AWS Forwarder, etc.)
• Experience with iterative software development processes (Agile, SCRUM, Kanban)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Associate

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