AWS Cloud Engineer

AWS Cloud Engineer Hybrid (Onsite 1 Week/Month)

Diversified Systems is searching for a highly skilled and well rounded AWS expert to assist in maintaining the AWS Organization with Control Tower environment, working with agencies on troubleshooting, and helping to mentor staff. The Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services (ITS) is the central IT organization for the state of Mississippi and acts as a service provider and/or service broker for agencies. Over the last two years, ITS has implemented an AWS Organization with Control Tower and is working to build cloud expertise internally to support this environment and future agency AWS projects. This position will be crucial to the long term success of this project for ITS as we work to build our Cloud Center of Excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee and maintain the existing AWS Organization while ensuring adherence to industry best practices.
• Design, review, and implement AWS solutions that meet performance, security, and scalability requirements for both ITS and agencies.
• Serve as a senior point of contact for complex AWS-related issues including network connectivity and coordinate with internal teams and agencies to determine root cause and remediation strategies.
• Work with AWS and other third-party vendors to integrate various products into the overall AWS ecosystem.
• Provide knowledge transfer, training, and coaching staff members to build internal cloud expertise and help with creation and maintenance of technical documentation, standards, and playbooks.
• Work with ITS and agency security teams to ensure industry best practices and various compliance requirements are met.

Requirements:

• Deep knowledge of key AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, CloudFormation, etc.) required.
• Experience leading cloud migrations or implementations in a complex multi-account environment required.
• Strong network troubleshooting abilities to help resolve connectivity issues both inside the AWS cloud environment and ingressing/egressing to the State's on premises environment required.
• Familiarity with AWS Landing Zone implementations and management using AWS Landing Zone Accelerator required.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS CDK) and CI/CD pipelines required.
• Experience implementing security best practices (e.g., IAM policies, encryption, network segmentation, and SCPs) required.
• Familiarity with DevOps principles, containerization (Docker, ECS, EKS), and serverless architectures required.
• Strong troubleshooting abilities across networking, storage, and compute layers in AWS required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders required.
• Proven experience mentoring staff and fostering a collaborative, learning-focused environment required.
• Effective problem-solving skills and the ability to remain calm and focused under pressure required.
• Strong organizational skills, capable of managing multiple projects and priorities simultaneously required.
• Ability to lead architectural reviews and navigate ambiguity in designing solutions to complex business problems required.
• AWS Professional-level certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional) highly desired.
• Experience in a government or highly regulated environment (e.g., HIPAA, CJIS, IRS 1075 compliance) highly desired.
• Knowledge of ITIL, project management methodologies (e.g., PMP, Agile), and enterprise IT governance frameworks highly desired.
• Familiarity with other public cloud providers and hybrid-cloud environments highly desired.
• Working knowledge of common scripting/programming languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell) highly desired.