Cloud Engineer III

Job Title: Cloud Engineer (SEIII)
Clearance Required: U.S. Citizen, Public Trust
Work Location: Remote/Silver Spring, MD

Alpha Omega is seeking a qualified Cloud Engineer. The Cloud Engineering & Web Solutions Architect defines and develops custom modules as well as deploy system tools and features to create/package integration from proposal to product. Document features, modules, requirements, and the risks of each project-based initiative and assist in the design and implementation of system architecture and interface control using requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• 4 - 6 years of relevant experience.
• Cloud based design, definition and development custom modules, features, and package integration from proposal to product.
• Write efficient code and maintain code quality, organization, documentation, and automatization.
• Document features, modules, requirements, and the risks of each Cloud based initiative.
• Develops FEDRAMP-certified architecture solutions and evaluates alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services.
• Work with IT security staff and communications professionals to meet yearly web certifications and implement security updates as required.
• Troubleshooting and debugging applications
• Research and recommend cloud architecture that will enhance internal tools, and systems.
• Provide optimization and best practices utilizing AWS tools.
• Develop, document and implement cloud solutions to ensure application high availability in both hybrid on-premises cloud and fully cloud hosted applications to provide an always on experience.
• Acts as a subject matter expert for cloud end-to-end architecture, including current and future providers, networking, provisioning, and management.
• Provide implementation guidance/support to the customer throughout the project life cycle.
• Operate and maintain EC2 instances, production ECS clusters, and additional AWS services such as RDS, Lambda, S3, EFS, Glue, Athena, and Sagemaker.

Required Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or related field

Experience/Skills:

• Prior Experience with AWS Cloud
• In-depth working knowledge of FEDRAMP and extensive experience applying best practices for building/deploying secure and reliable services and applications on FEDRAMP-compliant Cloud platforms.
• Must possess in-depth understanding of networking principles and technologies and cloud security practices.
• Knowledge of Cloud Architecture patterns and strategies (including IaaS, PaaS, Security, Compute, Storage and networking.
• Prior experience with web systems such as WordPress in a clustered environment.
• Experience using coding languages such as Perl, Java, PowerShell, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.
• Understanding of load balancing, …