Senior AWS Engineer

Position Information:

BreakForth Solutions is seeking a Senior AWS Engineer to support our Federal customers. The successful candidate will be part of a team setting up and operating AWS Platform instances. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, and Lambda. They should have experience working with Dev Ops methodologies, automation, and deploying infrastructure as code. In this position, the AWS Engineer will manage and deliver functionality in close collaboration with clients, ensuring successful oversight and client delivery of impacted projects.

Essential Functions

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure solutions as part of a team of AWS Cloud specialists
• Review, Evaluate, Assess, and Manage AWS Landing zone to align with AWS best practices in conformance to support regulated workloads and DOJ compliance requirements.
• Manage and monitor cloud resources and automate processes using tools like AWS Cloud Formation, AWS Config, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Powershell, Terraform, and Ansible CI/CD.
• Develop solutions that maximize the performance, scalability, and stability of systems
• Collaborate with the designated ISSO to develop Authorization to Operate (ATO) for service offerings.
• Maintain documentation of AWS architecture, configurations, and procedures.
• Stay updated with the latest AWS services, trends, and best practices.
• Provide guidance to a team of system engineers, system architects, developers, and product owners to implement approaches that use current industry best practices.
• Implement continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline to automate the build and release process of application deployment in Production and Non-Production environments.
• Apply best practices, tools, and methods to support the delivery of projects on time, within budget, and to performance specifications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related fields
• 8+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying and maintaining AWS-based solutions.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Experience with systems engineering and enterprise architectures in AWS Cloud environments, with a strong understanding of AWS services such as EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, and Lambda
• Proficient with a combination of the following: Okta, Splunk, Powershell, Terraform, Ansible, CloudWatch, CloudFormation
• Extensive use of AWS Cloud products, preferably for government customers
• Demonstrated experience in a Dev Ops environment, using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) principles to accomplish client objectives.
• Knowledge and experience with the application, configuration, and administration of technologies critical to delivering functionality per specifications/requirements.
• Demonstrated experience recognizing, mitigating, and resolving technical risks.
• An AWS Cloud Certification is desired (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Dev Ops Engineer or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator)

Education/Skills/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university.
• Must be detail oriented.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Must be able to interact with internal and external clients effectively and professionally.
• Ability to work with no supervision.
• Must have proven experience meeting tight deadlines.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent time management skills
• Must be hands-on and take proactive ownership of projects.

BreakForth Solutions Incorporated is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable law.