AWS Cloud Engineer

Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
This position is for a Cloud Engineer supporting the client commercial cloud customers who reside in Amazon AWS (Gov/DoD). The client is a managed service provider (MSP) for Army IT systems and we support enterprise applications owners in migrating their systems into Amazon AWS and also provide modernization and sustainment services to support their applications. This position is for an engineer to support these applications from a migration modernization and sustainment role.

• Collaborate with customers to understand their application environments evaluate any architectural changes they may need and develop an architecture that meets the application requirements and utilizes a cloud native approach as much as possible.
• Prepare and submit build and process documentation internally and with external providers to facilitate application deployment and upgrades.
• Deploy and sustain cloud infrastructure to support customer applications.
• Develop deploy and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) for deployment and sustainment of customer enclaves.
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of customer application issues to include network storage operating system and application level analysis.
• Amazon AWS Portal administration in support of the client cloud customers add/modify/delete AWS resources configuration of networking alerting and notifications and general oversight of AWS resources.
• Provide on-call support for triage and resolution of after-hours production incidents.
• Make recommendations for improvements to security scalability manageability and performance across a wide variety of network storage and compute services and technologies.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Security Clearance: ActiveDoD Secret Clearance Required.
Required Certifications : Security+ or equivalent DoD 8570.01-M IA Tech Level II certification.
Must have (or obtain within 6 months of hire) a computing environment certification as defined in DoD 8570.01-M for this position those requirements are the following certifications: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional Any of the AWS Specialty Certifications.

• Senior level Cloud Engineer experience within AWS.
• Experience with AWS services to include: EC2 Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) RDS S3 Lambda IAM VPC CloudTrail
• Experience with automation tools and scripting languages (Ansible Terraform Python PowerShell Bash Puppet Chef etc.)
• Experience effectively managing multiple large-scale projects in a fast-paced environment with strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across the entire technology stack network storage server and applications.
• Knowledge and implementation/operations experience with Amazon AWS cloud resources.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Working knowledge of DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) and the Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM) process.

ITES-3 education/experience requirements:
Intermediate level LCAT Bachelors +5 or Associates +7
Senior level LCAT Masters +10 or Bachelors +12