AWS Cloud Engineer

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Benefits Offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Training and Tuition Assistance, Paid Time Off, and Holidays

Markon is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to support our Intelligence Customer out of Chantilly, VA.

Member of an application development team working with Amazon Services to develop business applications in support of a government customer.  The cloud engineer will collaborate with developers, system administrators, Scrum masters, testers, and customers to define requirements, implement cloud-based solutions, and refine cloud systems.  This position will also require providing support and troubleshooting issues with existing production cloud environments.


Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage complex AWS cloud environments
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, cost, and security
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using tools like CloudFormation
• Implement and manage disaster recovery and business continuity solutions
• Collaborate with development teams to support CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Monitor and troubleshoot cloud services and applications
• Implement and maintain security controls and compliance measures
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior team members
• Stay current with AWS services and best practices, recommending new technologies and approaches

Required: 

• An active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph (preferably from this client) is required to begin employment.
• CompTIA Security+ Certification (IAT level 2 or higher).
• AWS Professional level certification (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer).
• Strong knowledge of AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, and Bedrock.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., CloudFormation).
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts and security best practices.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools like CloudWatch.
• 5+ years of experience in cloud administration, with at least 3 years focused on AWS.
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, or similar technical field.
• Ability to manage multiple priority tasks.
• Self-motivated task identification.

Desired:

• Knowledge of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline).
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.

USD $160,000.00 - USD $210,000.00 /Yr.

The Markon pay range for this position is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.