United States onlyCognitive is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer who will be responsible for the planning, designing, and management of the implementation and operation of our client’s test and production infrastructure in AWS GovCloud. Focusing on security, scalability, and resiliency, the Cloud Engineer will provide technical leadership and hands-on development and implementation of solution architectures that modernize the way our customers use technology. The Engineer will also support the migration and integration of complex software systems to AWS GovCloud (US).
This position is Contingent based upon contract award.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Delivery in an Agile environment utilizing DevSecOps, CI/CD, and related processes, methodologies, and concepts
- Experience with implementation, support, and sustainment of the following technologies and services utilized by applications to be migrated to the AWS cloud, and the ability to perform upgrades to newer versions/technologies that will be required as part of the migration effort:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) components, tools, architecture, setup, configuration, development, integration, migration, maintenance, sustainment, and support, with emphasis on Government cloud environments
- Experience with other tools such as: AWS API Libraries, AWS CLI, Java, JavaScript, Serverless, Bash shell scripting
- Declarative Infrastructure as Code tools, Cloud-based build and deployment pipelines, Jenkins/GitHub/Azure DevOps, Puppet/Ansible, Terraform, Docker, as well as Enterprise DevOps or similar shared service team experience
- Linux environments and supporting production enterprise applications
- Experience with cloud deployments and cluster resource management with AWS GovCloud including monitoring systems, logging, and security implementation
- Experience of software development processes and source code management (eg. Git) processes
- Knowledge of DevSecOps Engineering processes and Operations & Management (O&M)
- Ability to conduct in-depth triage, troubleshooting, and forensics across all facets of the cloud stack while executing processes corrective action and continual service improvement
- Knowledge and implementation history of best practices for disaster recovery, fault tolerance, and highly available environments
Required Education, Experience, and Clearance:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering or other engineering or technical discipline is required (5 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education)
- 5 years’ minimum related experience
- Must have a AWS certification (AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or higher)
- Ability to obtain a VA or Government Position of Public Trust
