Sr. AWS Engineer

ICF International seeks an experienced Sr. AWS Engineer to work with a skilled and motivated team of professionals on a high-visibility Department of Homeland Security (DHS)) cyber security program. In this position, you will work with multiple IT disciplines in shaping, executing and sustaining the Cloud/Hosting strategy for a shared service platform focused on identifying and mitigating a wide range of cyber risks. You will work closely with the Cloud Architecture and Operations teams to support the client’s mission, priorities, and unique challenges. You will also support the implementation of cyber security COTS offerings focusing on next generation security solutions and technologies.

This work is hybrid with the expectation of a minimum of two/days week supporting the program at a partner’s office in Fairfax, VA and the remainder of the week teleworking.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Design and develop automated deployment and patching systems across multiple baselines (machine images and containers) that support an AWS based shared services platform for a broad spectrum of users and initiatives.
• Work with emerging and innovative technologies to develop solutions supporting innovation efforts around data analysis, process improvement, machine learning and other software and systems that support the client’s mission.
• Support users by establishing environments, support configuration changes and updates.
• Proactively communicate and coordinate with multiple project teams.

What You Must Have:

• Bachelor’s degree (or 4 years of experienc in lieu of degree) and a minimum of 5 years of related experience; or a master’s degree and a minimum of 3 years of related experience.
• Experience working in a DevSecOps environment.
• Multiple professional program certifications in cloud, information systems security, or in other related fields, are strongly encouraged.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification.
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code/automation technologies (Ansible/Terraform/CloudFormation) for Infrastructure Automation, Infrastructure Capacity Monitoring and Automated Scaling solutions.
• 2+ years of Hands-on Experience in design, development and maintenance of AWS Glue jobs for targeted Data Transformation processes that include Extract, Transform and Load (ETL).
• Ability to design and build Data Pipelines using AWS Glue, AWS Glue Studio
• Ability to create and manage AWS Glue Data Catalog
• Experience in data read/write using AWS Glue from multiple data sources including Apache Parquet files
• Experience designing and/or implementing cloud-based and / or cloud-native solutions in production workloads.
• 1+ years of Experience in building and deploying Applications using AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
• Experience functioning in a DevSecOps practice using CI/CD automations.
• 1+ …