Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer (2197)

SMX is seeking a Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer to act as the liaison between the client and operations teams for support and escalations. Communicate service delivery health to all stakeholders and explain any performance issues or risks. Ensure Cloud orchestration and automation capability is operating based on target SLAs with minimal downtime. Hold performance meetings to share performance and consumption data and trends. This work will be a combination of on-site and remote in either the Washington DC, or Chantilly, VA offices. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop cloud formation templates to build immutable infrastructure on AWS
• Able to work in an agile, cross-functional team
• Develop AWS lambda functions in Python or other languages for operational or business functional purposes Evaluate, respond to, and resolve AWS service issues leveraging AWS support when needed
• Drive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations via automation and orchestration Conduct capacity planning analysis and cloud budget planning
• Manage the monitoring, updating, optimization, redundancy, stability of cloud systems
• Manage AWS services such as IAM, EC2, S3, VPC, Lambda, SNS, Cloudwatch, Redshift, RDS, Config, ECS, EKS, ALB, security groups
• Work with AWS engineers on Kubernetes (EKS), ECS and Docker containers
• Assist other teams with provisioning and getting appropriate access to AWS resources.
• Work with the team to estimate the cost footprint of new AWS resources and services and conduct general forecasts for our AWS architecture. 
• Support AWS infrastructure changes during planned maintenance windows, as well as ad-hoc support for unplanned outages.
• Ensure Cloud orchestration and automation capability is operating based on target SLAs with minimal downtime.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Diode experience is a plus

Required Skills:

• 5+ Years of relevant cloud development experience
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• AWS CloudFormation
• AWS Architecture
• AWS DevOps and Development
• Top Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree required preferably in computer science or related field

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