AWS Cloud Engineer

Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer

Location: Arlington, VA

Duration: 6 Months + Extension

Bill Rate : $86/hr.

Job Type: W-2 Contract

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Work Authorization: US-Citizen, H-1B, OPT-EAD, GC-EAD

Responsibilities

• Build Landing Zone including AWS Organizations, SCPs, account vending, KMS, monitoring stack, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Develop and maintain DevSecOps pipeline
• Design and implement AWS GovCloud solutions (specifically AWS GovCloud, noting that commercial AWS is not the same)
• Proficiency with Terraform, including module design and remote state management
• Design AWS Organizations and Service Control Policies (SCPs)
• Configure IAM Identity Center
• Manage AWS networking components such as Transit Gateway (TGW), VPC, VDSS/VDMS
• Design Key Management Service (KMS) Customer Master Key (CMK)
• Employ AWS security services including GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, Inspector, Config
• Use GitLab CI/CD for automation
• Implement OPA/Sentinel policy-as-code
• Utilize Python and Bash scripting
• Demonstrate familiarity with DISA Cloud Computing SRG

Requirements

• AWS SAA certification minimum (AWS SAP preferred)
• AWS Security Specialty certification strongly preferred
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate
• DoD 8570/8140 IAT II certification
• Federal experience with DoD cloud environments essential
• SCCA-compliant design experience strongly preferred

Equal Opportunity Employer:
We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.