Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Additional activities may include: deploying capabilities via CI/CD pipeline, maintaining server and database compliance including patching, and automating using scripting languages. Enable and assist deployment of AWS Direct Connect in orchestration with ISTS contractor team in charge of AWS Direct Connect deployment.

Job Title: Senior AWS Cloud Engineer
Client: Federal Government
Number of Positions: 4
Ref# GAOT2
Location: Remote with occasional travel to the client site in DC.
Status: This position requires a U.S. Citizen. The selected candidate will go through a Public Trust Clearance process.
Position Overview
The vendor shall provide cloud engineering support from qualified professionals. Vendor shall build, integrate, and deploy multi-cloud environments that support data science and emerging technology prototypes. Key activities include cloud infrastructure automation, hardening, operations, and maintenance. The vendor shall establish continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with security being integral to the pipeline stages and implement identity management. Additional activities may include: deploying capabilities via CI/CD pipeline, maintaining server and database compliance including patching, and automating using scripting languages. The vender shall support the activities to obtain and maintain ATO for prototypes.
Responsibilities:

• Deploy Palo Alto firewall in AWS Gov-Cloud perform configurations and rule sets.
• Optimize Palo Alto Firewall in AWS Gov-Cloud and AWS Commercial
• Deploy enhancements to Landing Zone Accelerator deployments.
• Perform integration with various identity and access solutions, including Okta and its integrations with EntraID, PIV, or SailPoint.
• Provide AWS network engineering support (TGW, routing tables, VPCs).
• Enable ongoing infrastructure evolution aligned with client cybersecurity and IT governance.
• Provide continuous cybersecurity operations for the client's AWS environments by FISMA and FedRAMP standards.
• Deploy, operate, and maintain Client's cloud-based Data Lake infrastructure to support secure, scalable analytics workflows.
• Design, develop and implement improvement to current AWS Self-hosted COTs applications
• Enable and assist deployment of AWS Direct Connect in orchestration with ISTS contractor team in charge of AWS Direct Connect deployment
• Design, Develop and deploy new AWS infrastructure