Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to sustain and modernize the AWS GovCloud infrastructure that Veterans depend on. In this role, you will operate and maintain AWS managed services for mission-critical applications while driving platform modernization.
Responsibilities
- Operates and maintains all AWS managed services supporting Health Applications Platform Services (HAPS) including ElastiCache, RDS, DocumentDB, Kinesis, MSK, and Athena
- Ensures 99.995% incident-free availability for mission-critical managed service tiers
- Manages EC2-based platform services including Consul, Vault, Active Directory, Nexus, and Postfix
- Performs adaptive, perfective, preventive, and corrective maintenance
- Implements and maintains 100% IaC governance using Terraform for all managed AWS resources
- Prohibits and remediates manual production configuration changes
- Maintains code review cycle time within 3 business days
- Implements and operates centralized secrets management using HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager
- Ensures automated rotation for 100% of production secrets and manual rotation at least every 90 days
- Manages AWS certificate lifecycle for managed services
- Ensures 100% of TLS certificates are renewed 30+ days prior to expiration using automated mechanisms and immediately remediates any expired production certificates
- Participates in daily Change Control Board (CCB) meetings
- Ensures all AWS managed service changes are submitted 3+ business days in advance and validated within 2 hours post-implementation
- Supports the Multi-Region Enablement Plan including assessment of AWS managed services warranting multi-region deployment and data replication strategies with cost-to-benefit analysis
- Ensures all AWS managed services operate on VA TRM-approved software versions and contributes version compliance data to Program Increment Software Version Posture Reports
- Contributes AWS service health metrics, cost analytics data, and incident information to the Monthly Maintenance Report
Skills
- 3 years of experience in AWS cloud engineering
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, information technology, or related field
- Excellent experience operating AWS managed services in production GovCloud environments (e.g., ElastiCache, RDS, DocumentDB, Kinesis, MSK, Athena, S3) maintaining performance, availability, and cost efficiency
- Excellent experience managing EC2-based platform services (e.g., Consul, Vault, MongoDB, Atlassian tooling, Active Directory, Nexus, Postfix) in enterprise-scale AWS environments
- Excellent ability to implement and maintain 100% IaC governance using Terraform
- Excellent experience with AWS secrets management including HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager
- Excellent knowledge of AWS cost optimization including instance right-sizing, reserved instances, Savings Plans, S3 tiering, and cloud cost analytics
- Above average experience with AWS certificate management including ACM, certificate rotation automation, and PKI operations ensuring zero production disruption
- Above average knowledge of multi-region AWS architecture including S3 replication, RDS read replicas, ElastiCache cross-region replication, and data consistency considerations
- Working knowledge of AWS EKS managed node groups and the interaction between EC2-based services and Kubernetes workloads in a multi-VPC environment
- Experience supporting a federal agency
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Active Federal Civilian Public Trust clearance
- U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident that has lived in the United States for at least 3 years
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage for you and your family.
- Life Insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability paid for by the Company.
- Supplemental coverages including Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital.
- Additional Life insurance coverage for you and your dependents.
- 401k plan with various options to select based on your retirement goals.
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