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Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS

TechSur Solutions

Reston, USA

Full-time

Senior · 9+ years experience

Hybrid

Discovered 1 weeks ago

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Design and deploy AWS landing zones, multi-account structures (AWS Organizations, Control Tower), and hub-and-spoke networking integrated with the customer's WAN and DNS.
Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and GitOps workflows that provision consistent production, integration, development, and sandbox environments.
Implement IAM and federated access through the customer's enterprise identity provider using SAML 2.0 and OIDC, aligned with Zero Trust principles.
Configure security and compliance guardrails (Service Control Policies, AWS Config, Security Hub, GuardDuty) against NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 and customer security standards.
Apply the enterprise tagging strategy for asset management, cost tracking, and chargeback/showback.
Monitor environments with CloudWatch and enterprise tools such as Datadog, Splunk, and Dynatrace; integrate events, incidents, and changes with ServiceNow.
Perform patching, routine maintenance, capacity planning, and rightsizing; troubleshoot and resolve incidents as part of 24/7 operations support.
Design and test high availability, backup, and disaster recovery for cloud workloads.
Write runbooks and SOPs, supply ATO evidence, and transfer knowledge to customer operations staff.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
At least 9 years of experience deploying and configuring cloud environments, including significant hands-on AWS work.
Production experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
Hands-on experience with AWS multi-account landing zones, VPC design, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect or site-to-site VPN.
Experience implementing IAM and single sign-on federation (SAML 2.0/OIDC).
Experience monitoring, patching, and troubleshooting Linux and Windows workloads in the cloud.
Working knowledge of NIST SP 800-53 security controls in a federal environment.
Ability to obtain and maintain the background investigation required by the federal customer.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
AWS Certified Security – Specialty or HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate.
Experience in FedRAMP Moderate/High or AWS GovCloud environments, including support for ATO packages.
Working knowledge of Azure, Google Cloud, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Experience with policy-as-code (OPA/Rego, Checkov), Ansible, and CI/CD tools such as GitLab, GitHub Actions, or AWS CodePipeline.
Experience integrating cloud tooling with ServiceNow ITSM and CMDB.
Prior support of a civilian federal agency.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
AWS Certified Security – Specialty or HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate.
Experience in FedRAMP Moderate/High or AWS GovCloud environments, including support for ATO packages.
Working knowledge of Azure, Google Cloud, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Experience with policy-as-code (OPA/Rego, Checkov), Ansible, and CI/CD tools such as GitLab, GitHub Actions, or AWS CodePipeline.
Experience integrating cloud tooling with ServiceNow ITSM and CMDB.
Prior support of a civilian federal agency.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
TechSur Solutions is a digital services company whose mission is to enable digital transformation for our customers to improve quality and efficiency. Based in the DC metropolitan area, TechSur specializes in advanced cloud services, modernization for both IT structures and applications, leveraging Agile development, and Data Analytics. Since we were formed in August of 2016, we have supported multiple impactful and exciting government programs.

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