[Remote] Cloud Engineer- AWS
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cloud7Works, Inc. is a federal IT contractor specializing in cloud modernization and advanced analytics for federal agencies. The Cloud Engineer will design, implement, and support cloud-native solutions within AWS environments, ensuring operational excellence and compliance with requirements.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud-native solutions on AWS
- Develop and support highly automated infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevSecOps best practices
- Configure, deploy, and manage AWS services, including containerized and serverless workloads
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support application deployment and operational efficiency
- Implement cloud security controls, monitoring, logging, and automation solutions
- Support cloud networking, identity management, and access control requirements
- Collaborate with development, testing, security, and operations teams to support application lifecycle activities
- Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure and application issues
- Support performance optimization, scalability, resiliency, and availability objectives
- Participate in infrastructure modernization and continuous improvement initiatives
- Coordinate technical activities with Government technical leads and stakeholders
- Ensure compliance with organizational, security, and contractual requirements
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field
- Strong experience in Amazon AWS Cloud technologies
- Experience in organizing, directing, and managing multiple, complex, and interrelated application development and testing tasks
- The individuals should be responsible for technical quality and coordination with government technical leads throughout information technology (IT) and shall be available during normal hours of operation
- Advanced Cloud certifications in good standing
- Minimum seven (7) years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting highly automated cloud-native solutions on AWS
- Demonstrated experience building and supporting scalable, secure, and resilient cloud environments
- Experience supporting multiple complex and interrelated application development, deployment, and testing efforts
- Experience working within Agile, DevSecOps, and cloud-native development environments
- Strong experience designing and supporting cloud-native solutions on AWS, including services such as EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and VPC networking, with a focus on scalability, security, and automation
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or similar technologies
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or equivalent tools
- Knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes-based platforms
- Strong understanding of cloud security, identity and access management, monitoring, logging, and operational best practices
- Experience supporting highly available and resilient cloud environments
- Knowledge of tax processing, tax compliance systems, case management solutions, and taxpayer data environments
- Experience supporting IRS, Federal Government, or other public-sector IT programs
- Familiarity with NIST, FedRAMP, IRS Publication 1075, and related security and compliance requirements
- Experience supporting cloud modernization and digital transformation initiatives
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