I04 AWS Engineer

Start Date: Immediate  At TalentWerx, we are focused on partnering with America’s top companies to acquire new talent with speed, accuracy, and a differentiated pricing model. We pride ourselves in acquiring top talent to ensure our clients' competitive advantage.   Our client is a Woman-Owned business that strives to meet and exceed customer expectations at every interaction and to become a dependable teammate of choice to our partner contractors. They aim to provide an ethical, collaborative employment environment where each of their employees is driven to provide their best work in furtherance of their customer's success and the mission.  OVERVIEW  Full-time/Permanent Employee   Location: Hybrid in Ft. Meade, MD or Columbia, MD  RESPONSIBILITIES

Will be responsible for engineering, architecting, and deployment of Cloud-based applications and infrastructure. 

Will develop strategic and implementation plans for information systems. 

Will develop the infrastructure as code required to generate cloud security infrastructure and security enclaves. 

Must be able to work in a high pressure, highly flexible environment against both short and long-term requirements. 

Other duties as assigned. 

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

Clearance: Current Secret Clearance 

Education: Bachelors in related field; 7 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 13 years relevant experience. 

9+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering including operations, management, design, and development of cloud-based applications and capabilities 

3+ years experience with Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, etc.) 

Must have experience writing in Python and working on the Linux Command Line. 

Must have experience automating cloud configuration using tooling such as Terraform, AWS Config, Ansible, etc. 

Work autonomously actively identifying areas for improvement. 

Able to collaborate with existing platform architects on long term and strategic architectural changes to the platform. 

Strong understanding of cloud networking best practices 

Excellent oral and written communication skills 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Any of the following AWS Certifications are highly desired: 

Designing, building, and managing infrastructure configured according to the DoD Secure Cloud Computing Architecture (SCCA) and DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (DoD CC SRG)