Preferred Education:
Bachelors degree or substantial career experience in Information Technology Computer
Science Engineering or a related field
Preferred Certification:
AWS Cloud Certification (AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional)
Required Knowledge Skills & Abilities:
7 years of enterprise IT experience with a blend of architecture and hands-on engineering
Proven experience designing and implementing AWS solutions in enterprise or government settings
Prior direct hands-on experience supporting cloud migrations at scale
Demonstrated success supporting mission-critical applications with high visibility and uptime expectations
Proficiency in both Windows Server administration and Linux systems (RHEL or Amazon Linux)
Strong experience with Terraform Ansible and GitHub/GitHub Actions
Familiarity with AWS-native container services such as ECS Fargate and EKS with practical experience deploying or supporting containerized workloads in production
Hybrid storage expertise: experience with NetApp caching appliances or FSx for ONTAP
Strong scripting and automation capabilities (PowerShell Bash or Python)
Baseline familiarity with modern AI technologies including Generative AI Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) patterns in cloud-native architectures
Experience with GitHub Enterprise branching strategies and DevSecOps practices
Exposure to multi-account AWS organizations and hybrid networking design
Preferred Experience:
Background in state or government agency environments
Client is seeking 2 experienced and well-rounded Senior Cloud Engineers (with architecture experience) to join our core enterprise cloud operations and modernization team. Senior Cloud Engineers with complementary skillsets - one focused on Infrastructure & Automation and the other on Support & Operations. These individuals will provide day-to-day support across AWS and hybrid on-premises environments ensuring stability performance and uptime of mission-critical public-facing addition to operational support the engineers will also contribute to modernization efforts - including lift-and-shift re-platforming containerization and integration of emerging technologies - working with senior architects to guide longer-term strategy while driving hands-on execution.
Ideal Candidate profile:
Equally comfortable whiteboarding architecture and writing automation scripts.
Able to work across silos bring people together and guide consensus.
Thrives in high-accountability low-handholding environments.
Operates with a disruptor mindset - challenges outdated models while navigating government dynamics with diplomacy.
Key Responsibilities:
Design and implement enterprise cloud solutions within a hybrid architecture (AWS on-prem).
Participate in modernization of legacy systems through lift-and-shift re-platforming containerization and refactoring
Build and manage CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform Ansible)and automated workflows via GitHub Actions and similar tooling
Collaborate on hybrid storage strategies leveraging NetApp ONTAP and caching appliances integrated with AWS
Apply expertise across both Windows Server and Linux (RHEL/Amazon Linux) environments
Serve as a key contributor in cross-functional architecture discussions and migration planning
Ensure alignment with governance tagging security and operational policies
Troubleshoot technical issues across the stack: compute network storage identity and containers.