Hybrid AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Ops Support

at Leidos

• Job title: AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Ops Support
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $87,100 - $157,450 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Jenkins, Kubernetes, NoSQL, Oracle, SQL, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bedford, United States

About the role

• AWS Cloud Operation Engineer developing cloud-native solutions and ensuring best practices in a multi-cloud environment for mission-critical USAF projects.

Responsibilities

• Perform cloud operations and engineering tasks to enhance, sustain, and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions for AWS cloud environment.
• Perform AWS cloud operations, sustainment, and maintenance activities to maintain optimum cloud.
• Adopt and utilize Dev Sec Ops practices, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks.
• Through development and sustainment activities, optimize application performance and reliability in cloud environments.
• Design, implement and sustain secure cloud architectures and networks implementing zero-trust principles and defense-in-depth strategies.
• Maintain compliance with industry standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.) and regulatory requirements.
• Architect, implement and maintain cloud networking security controls including STIG requirements.
• Implement identity and access management solutions and security monitoring frameworks.
• Support development of migration methodologies and ensure minimal organizational disruption during transitions.
• Utilize CI/CD workflows and infrastructure-as-code development using Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, and Guacamole to support DevSecOps practices.
• Containerize applications to enhance scalability and deployment efficiency.
• Support the design and development of Shared Services.
• Configure and troubleshoot cloud, virtual, and physical hardware and software systems.
• Establish and maintain SQL and NoSQL databases, ensuring their performance and reliability.
• Support preparation of detailed technical documentation of development and operational processes.
• Work in cross-functional teams including development, operations, security, and product management.

Requirements

• Bachelors and 4+ years or more of experience;
• Masters degree and 2+ years of experience.
• Interim Secret clearance required to start;
• Ability to obtain Secret clearance required to maintain employment
• US citizenship required
• Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2)
• Practiced verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to participate in team efforts to accomplish assigned tasks.
• Demonstrated experience in cloud operations and sustainment and performing tasks and actions described in the primary responsibilities section.
• Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture. Experience a plus
• Understanding Active Directory, AWS AD, SAML and the standards, procedures, and processes.
• Experience with Ansible, AWS console, Elastic, AWS, Jira, Confluence, Git, Bitbucket and various cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings to conduct DEV/SEC/OPS pipeline development activities.
• Administration experience with cloud-based applications (MS O365, SharePoint, AWS AD, AWS).
• Experience administering Windows Server, and related services.
• Cloud certifications in AWS, Azure, Google, or Oracle clouds.

Benefits

• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement