Junior Engineer

Role Overview: Lead the design implementation and ongoing optimization of secure scalable and cost-effective AWS-based solutions to support global dossier initiatives. Ensure alignment with government objectives data governance and regulatory requirements. Drive automation resilience and operational excellence across cloud environments while mentoring teams and shaping cloud strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Strategy Development

• Develop and articulate a comprehensive cloud strategy aligned with government objectives prioritizing security compliance and cost-efficiency.
• Define cloud standards reference architectures and roadmaps that support global dossier initiatives.

Architecture Design and Implementation

• Design robust scalable cloud architectures leveraging AWS native services to meet government requirements for performance availability and resilience.
• Architect and implement high-availability disaster recovery and backup solutions; design for rapid recovery and minimal downtime.

Security Compliance and Data Protection

• Establish and enforce security controls across all cloud environments (identity access management encryption network segmentation secret management).
• Ensure compliance with government regulations data sovereignty requirements and industry best practices; implement continuous security monitoring and threat mitigation.
• Lead data protection initiatives including data classification privacy impact assessments and secure data lifecycle management.

Cost Optimization and Financial Governance

• Continuously analyze and optimize cloud spend; implement cost-control mechanisms tagging strategy and chargeback/showback models.
• Recommend and implement scalable cost-efficient patterns without sacrificing performance or security.

Migration Planning and Execution

• Lead migration planning and execution for government applications and data to the cloud minimizing downtime and risk.
• Develop migration blueprints cutover plans and rollback strategies; coordinate cross-team execution.

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

• Develop test and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans; ensure critical services remain available during outages or disasters.
• Regularly validate recovery objectives (RPO/RTO) and update runbooks.

Cloud Operations Automation and SRE

• Implement and operate robust observability (monitoring logging tracing) and incident response processes.
• Build and maintain automation pipelines (CI/CD) for infrastructure as code deployments and configuration management.
• Establish performance engineering practices to optimize cloud workloads and ensure SLA attainment.

Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC)

• Collaborate with security privacy legal and compliance teams to ensure governance requirements are met.
• Maintain documentation risk assessments and audit readiness for cloud environments.

Team Training and Capability Building

• Mentor and coach team members; deliver training and knowledge transfer to corporate staff and operations teams.
• Promote cloud best practices coding standards and operational excellence.

Stakeholder Collaboration and Vendor Management

• Partner with government program teams security offices and external vendors to drive cloud initiatives.
• Evaluate and manage third-party tools managed services and cloud-related contracts.

Data Governance and Data Platform Collaboration

• Work with data engineering and data governance teams to design secure data pipelines data access controls and compliant data sharing patterns for the dossier platform.

Requirements:

• 4 years experience OR BA/BS degree with 1 year experience OR AA degree and 2 years experience
• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS architecture security compliance cost optimization and migration at scale.
• Strong understanding of government IT requirements data sovereignty and regulatory frameworks.
• Proficiency with IAM KMS Secrets Manager GuardDuty Security Hub CloudTrail Config and network security (VPC subnets VPN/Direct Connect security groups).
• Experience designing and implementing disaster recovery high availability and backup strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to build and operate CI/CD pipelines infrastructure as code (Terraform CloudFormation) and automation tooling.
• Deep knowledge of observability (CloudWatch X-Ray OpenTelemetry) monitoring incident management and SRE practices.
• Data security and privacy acumen including encryption key management and secure data lifecycle.
• Strong troubleshooting problem-solving and communication skills; ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with government cloud environments (e.g. AWS GovCloud) or regulated sectors.
• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional AWS Certified Security - Specialty or equivalent.
• Prior leadership or mentorship experience; ability to guide cross-functional teams.

Halviks pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.

Required Experience:

Junior IC