Position: AWS Devops Er (Premium Job)

Job Description

Requisition Type: Contract; 6-month

Job Description:

This position will support current cloud requirements, cloud migration and deployment of new requirements to the AWS Cloud environment for our federal customers. In this role, you will be responsible for developing, enhancing, and supporting the processes and governance around how Developers and other customers will create, promote, and deploy their Infrastructure as Code. As the organization moves from waterfall to Agile and CI/CD processes, the governance and review processes must adapt. The team will create the guardrails around the CI/CD pipelines, tool integrations, and code repositories to ensure that the customers' infrastructure meets standards, has gone through appropriate reviews, and can quickly and consistently get deployed.

• Hands on experience building and deploying DevSecOps solutions in the AWS Cloud.
• Work with a team of DevOps/SecOps Engineers to architect AWS solutions.
• Participate on agile DevOps and agile SecOps teams using AWS Cloud technologies and tools to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering projects that provide exceptional business value to the customer.
• Establish and maintain a cooperative, working relationships with a diverse group of staff members, stakeholders, and customers.

Job Specification

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification
• 3+ years' AWS experience in a solutions delivery role.
• 3+ years' experience with CI/CD for solutions delivery using AWS well-architected framework, AWS services, and technologies
• Must possess strong organizational skills, strong interpersonal skills, and demonstrated experience working with senior-level stakeholders and development teams
• Competent communication skills, both orally and in writing to convey complex technical concepts to less technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Must be able to work in a matrixed organization
• Must be able to articulate cloud technologies and solutions to all levels of customer and contractor personnel
• Knowledge, skills and abilities of the architecture, engineering, and services of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Knowledge, skills and abilities to manage Infrastructure as Code CI/CD pipelines in standard tools like GitLab/GitHub.
• Knowledge, skills and abilities to automate the creation of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) infrastructures using industry standard tools such as CloudFormation, AWS Service Catalog, and GitLab.
• Knowledge, skills and abilities to integrate CI/CD pipelines with other industry standard development and security tools such as Sonatype, Nexus, Veracode, Aqua, and Contrast Security.
• Troubleshoot and resolve problems and issues in Amazon Web Services.
• Communicate with designated personnel by phone and email concerning the details of the issue, expected resolution, and root cause analysis.
• Have the ability to research problems and contact and escalate issues with AWS or other third-party hardware/software providers.
• Knowledge of a software development lifecycle that includes development, staging, and production
• Experience with the native AWS management and governance tools.
• Knowledge, skills and abilities on Agile processes and automating the collection of artifacts from Agile documentation tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Skill in working with customers to understand their requirements and deliver superior solutions.

Responsibilities:

The Senior AWS DevOps Engineer is responsible for the following tasks:

• Create, document, and enhance CI/CD processes around IaC cloudformation.
• Work with other components such as Security, Governance, and Accreditation to integrate the Pipeline in accordance with organization processes and procedures.
• Guide customers on how to use the new processes.
• Streamline the processes by automating data gathering and approval steps.
• Architect solutions using Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) methodology to enable automation in building, testing, and deployment of applications.
• Establish and maintain a cooperative, working relationships with a diverse group of staff members, stakeholders, and customers.

Desired:

• 5+ years' AWS experience in a solutions delivery role
• 5+ years' experience working within a DevSecOps/DevOps environment, utilizing AWS services, solutions, and provisioning/automating AWS infrastructure, services and tools.
• Experience with containers/Docker/Kubernetes (and/or EKS).