Location: Onsite in Chantilly VA.
***This position requires US citizenship with the ability to be clearable***U.S. Citizenship required with ability to obtain a security clearance
Join our forward-thinking cloud engineering team at SBS where we build and support secure scalable AWS cloud environments for U.S. Government missions. Our COSMOS platform enables mission owners to quickly onboard and deploy AWS Impact Level (IL)-4/5 workloads combining the agility of the commercial cloud with the compliance of federal environments.
Were looking for a Cloud Engineer Trainee who is eager to learn grow and contribute to building and maintaining AWS-based this hands-on role youll assist senior engineers with cloud infrastructure automation and application deployment gaining valuable experience across multiple AWS services and modern development tools.
You will learn how to:
- Support the design setup and maintenance of secure AWS infrastructure using tools like AWS CDK CloudFormation and Terraform.
- Assist with deploying and managing serverless applications (AWS Lambda API Gateway Step Functions).
- Help maintain and troubleshoot cloud-hosted databases (RDS Postgres DynamoDB).
- Contribute to application development using and under senior developer guidance.
- Learn to automate common deployment and operational tasks with CI/CD pipelines.
- Participate in cloud monitoring logging and security management using CloudWatch IAM and Secrets Manager.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to test and document system configurations and workflows.
- Stay current with cloud best practices and emerging AWS services.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Associates OR Bachelors Degree and 0-3 years of hands on project based work or trainingin cloud computing or software development.
- Basic knowledge of AWS services such as S3 EC2 Lambda and RDS.
- Familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frameworks ( ).
- Understanding of networking databases and application security fundamentals.
- Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to learn new technologies quickly.
- U.S. Citizenship and eligibility for security clearance.
Preferred Skills & Nice-to-Haves
- AWS certification
- Exposure to infrastructure-as-code tools (AWS CDK Terraform or CloudFormation).
- Some experience with SQL REST APIs or DevOps practices.
- Familiarity with AWS IAM Secrets Manager and CloudWatch.
- Interest in government or mission-critical cloud environments.
***This position requires US citizenship with the ability to be clearable***About SBS:Strategic Business Systems Inc. (SBS) is a National Information Technology Services company headquartered in the Washington D.C. Metro area. SBS provides IT infrastructure design integration and operation services. Our expertise encompasses the full spectrum of infrastructure technologies including the latest network server data storage disaster recovery security and Internet technologies.
EEODisclaimerSBS is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age gender gender identification sex sexual orientation color race creed national origin religion marital status parental status citizenship status ancestry physical or mental disability genetic information veteran status military status or any other classification protected by federal state or local laws.
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