AWS Engineer

This is a remote position.

AWS Engineer

100% Remote

Primary Responsibilities:
• Build and maintain products focused on application development lifecycle automation
• Work with the cloud, security, testing, and application teams to build orchestration pipelines
• Build, support, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that conduct multiple deployments a day
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by establishing and participating in feedback loops
• Meet with applications on a regular cadence to provide support and identify opportunities for optimization
• Serve as a main point of contact for all technical needs and become the subject matter expert of the applications the team manages.
• Become a subject matter expert with CMS Hybrid Cloud and CMS Enterprise Shared Service offerings
• Develop strong relationships and partnerships with the other CMS Hybrid Cloud Product Teams
• Continuously refresh infrastructure components such as EC2 instances, Cloud Formation Stacks, Kubernetes clusters, containers, etc.
• Promote strong quality control practices for all managed services as well as maintain robust documentation
• Work independently to resolve highly complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation

Requirements
• Works independently under “minimal supervision." Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 4-6 years of general experience.
• Knowledge of cloud-based security tools, best practices and policies including demonstrated experience protecting all layers of the application stack.
• Knowledge of the Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in cloud technologies, cloud services, IaC, cloud storage, cloud networking and cloud security.
• Package Management tools: rpm, pip.
• Experience with container build and orchestration: Kubernetes, EKS, ECS
• Operatizing System Setup and Best practices: RHEL, AL2, AL23, Windows
• Build Tools: Jenkins, GitHub
• Experience with CI/CD Tools: Sonarqube, Snyk,
• Dependency Management tools: Maven.
• Configuration Management tools: Ansible, Terraform, Git.
• Experience with Cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings.
• Experience working with Fisma compliant systems
• Experience with AWS config best practices
• Experience with CloudWatch logs and Metrics
• Experience with AWS/Azure CLI, shell languages (e.g., Bash, PowerShell), and formal programming languages (e.g., Python, Golang, Rust).
• Experience with containers (Docker, ECS, EKS), serverless (Lambda), and Virtual Machine (VMware, KVM) architectures.
• Experience bootstrapping and automating the build of complete environments.
• Efficient communication, zero handoff mentality.
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage conflict effectively.
• Ability to adapt and be productive in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills supporting multiple stakeholders and business operations.
• Self-starter, self-managed, and a team player.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Cloud Certification (e.g., AWS SysOps Administrator, Azure Administrator).
• Proven ability to work with challenging customers
• Agile-based knowledge and skill, including experience with Scrum Ceremonies and work management tools (e.g., (JIRA, Confluence).
• Security Skills—Knowledge of information assurance compliance and information security basics within CMS.

Required Clearance

Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance