Cleared Cloud Engineer On Site (3496)

SMX is seeking creative technical problem solvers who can design and develop solutions with our clients. We are looking for a Cloud Engineer who has hands-on experience with using AWS technologies that support applications related to data analytics, data warehousing, and business intelligence. This person will be closely collaborating with other data analytics professionals to produce creative solutions that ensure cloud orchestration and automation capability is operating based on target SLAs with minimal downtime. This is a full-time position with on-site work performed at a client’s office located in Washington, D.C. with possibility for some flexibility to work remote. Active Top Secret clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Develop cloud formation templates to build immutable infrastructure on AWSAble to work in an agile, cross-functional teamDevelop AWS lambda functions in Python or other languages for operational or business functional purposes Evaluate, respond to, and resolve AWS service issues leveraging AWS support when neededDrive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations via automation and orchestration Conduct capacity planning analysis and cloud budget planningManage the monitoring, updating, optimization, redundancy, stability of cloud systemsManage AWS services such as IAM, EC2, S3, VPC, Lambda, SNS, Cloudwatch, Redshift, RDS, Config, ECS, EKS, ALB, security groupsWork with AWS engineers on Kubernetes (EKS), ECS and Docker containersAssist other teams with provisioning and getting appropriate access to AWS resources.
• Work with the team to estimate the cost footprint of new AWS resources and services and conduct general forecasts for our AWS architecture.
• Support AWS infrastructure changes during planned maintenance windows, as well as ad-hoc support for unplanned outages.
• Develop system documentation for ATO

Required Skills And Qualifications

10 years of relevant experienceDedication to innovative, sophisticated designs and collaborative problem-solvingCloud monitoring tools I.e. CloudWatch, Splunk, etc. Networking I.e. TCP/IP, DNS, etc. Application security via encryption and SSLInfrastructure as Code (IaC)AWS CloudFormationAWS ArchitectureAWS DevOps and DevelopmentTop Secret Clearance

Preferred Skills And Qualifications

2+ years of experience with AWSAWS Certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer)

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Selected applicant will be subject to a background investigation.