AWS Cloud Engineer (Remote)

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The following states/districts are excluded from this job ad: AK, CA, CO, CT, DC, HI, LA, MA, MN, MO, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, ND, OR, PR, RI, VT, WA, WY

Future Need - Actively Interviewing

Location: Remote in any United States jurisdiction not excluded from this job advertisement.

Sustain and modernize the AWS GovCloud infrastructure that Veterans depend on every day! As an AWS Cloud Engineer, you will operate and maintain the AWS managed services underpinning 300+ mission-critical applications while driving platform modernization.

Position Description: The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Engineer operates and maintains the full suite of AWS managed services and EC2-based infrastructure. This role performs adaptive, perfective, preventive, and corrective maintenance; implements Infrastructure as Code (IaC) governance; and supports multi-region enablement.

Minimum/General Experience: 3 years of experience in AWS cloud engineering

Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in computer science, information technology, or related field

Essential Skills/Qualifications:

• 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 di...