AWS Cloud Engineer

About this role

## Responsibilities

Peraton is looking for an AWS Security Engineer to support secure development, modernization, and migration in support of a government multi-cloud environment with 50+ customer tenants and growing.  Aside from technical qualifications, applicant should have effective communication skills, both written and verbal.

The applicant must have engineering experience and extensive AWS and security knowledge and experience with integration, vulnerability remediation, system analysis or programming experience, including developing AWS systems requirements and design specification. The AWS Security Engineer will be responsible for resolving complex incidents, providing expert troubleshooting, and performing proactive monitoring of AWS Infrastructure and services. A passion for performance, strong desire for quality conformance, and attention to detail are prerequisites for this position.

LOCATION: Remote (but must reside and perform all work within the United States)

WORK HOURS: This position requires working online from 8:00 AM Eastern to 5:00 PM Eastern

Day to Day Roles and Responsibilities:

- Security
- Harden AWS environments and remediate STIG findings in accordance with NIST SP 800-53 and DHS 4300A requirements.
- Maintain and improve the golden image pipeline to ensure compliant baselines
- Incident Response and Troubleshooting
- Serve as an escalation point from Tier 2 support for complex incidents and outages within the AWS GovCloud environment
- Investigate and resolve issues across various AWS services EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, Lambda, and IAM
- Perform root cause analysis to address underlying infrastructure issues and provide solutions to prevent recurrence.
- Manage and resolve high-priority incidents, ensuring timely communication with stakeholders and affected tenants
- Monitoring and Optimization
- Continuously monitor tenant environments using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and other tools (Dynatrace, Splunk) to detec...