Cloud Services Engineer

Ready to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in federal services today? Join us and unleash your potential working in an agile environment alongside the men and women charged with ensuring the success of one of the most important missions in American Government.  As a Cloud Services Engineer  you will help build and maintain core AWS infrastructure that supports secure, scalable, and highly available cloud environments. You will provision and configure foundational AWS services like EC2, RDS, VPC, and S3, while implementing best practices around networking, load balancing, monitoring, and backup. You’ll also play a key role in automating infrastructure using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform, and ensuring operational excellence through tagging, alerting, and optimization strategies. This is a great opportunity to shape resilient cloud environments that power mission-critical workloads.

As a Cloud Services Engineer you will:

• Build out foundational AWS services (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3).
• Configure load balancing, autoscaling groups, and endpoint security.
• Setup routing, firewalls, NATs, and direct connect gateways.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards.
• Perform maintenance tasks, patching, and system optimization.
• Automate infrastructure using CloudFormation or Terraform.

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on experience provisioning and managing core AWS infrastructure services, including EC2, RDS, VPC, Route 53, ELB, and S3.
• Strong knowledge of AWS networking concepts such as VPC architecture, subnetting, security groups, NACLs, and Internet/NAT Gateway configurations.
• Proven experience implementing resiliency and monitoring solutions using AWS tools like Auto Scaling, CloudWatch (alarms and metric filters), and CloudTrail.
• Expertise in designing and automating backup and disaster recovery strategies, including snapshot scheduling, AWS Backup, and multi-region failover planning.
• Familiarity with resource and cost management best practices, including tagging strategies, AWS Config rules, and usage of Trusted Advisor for optimization and compliance.
• Bachelor's degree in related technical field.
• US Citizenship Required.
• AWS certifications highly preferred.

Benefits

• 401(k) with matching and 100% Vested
• Health Insurance - 3 plans to select from
• Dental insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Short Term Disability
• Long Term Disability
• AD&D
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Training
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Referral program
• Paid Legal Plan
• and more....

Ignite IT is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran status, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristic. In accordance with EO 13665 Final Rule, Ignite IT will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

Applicants selected must be able to possess and maintain a government clearance

US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED