About the Role:
AFS is seeking an AWS Engineer to lead the design, build, and automation of our cutting-edge cloud infrastructure in a DevSecOps environment. The ideal candidate is passionate about building secure, scalable, and highly available platforms on AWS. Your expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), container orchestration with EKS, and CI/CD pipelines will be critical to empowering our development teams with a robust, self-service platform. While our primary focus is AWS, experience in a hybrid environment and private cloud platforms such as VMware or Openshift will make you stand out.
Key Responsibilities:
- AWS Infrastructure & Architecture:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure environments primarily within AWS.
- Implement and manage core AWS services, including networking (VPC, Transit Gateway), Kubernetes (EKS), compute (EC2, Lambda), storage (S3, EBS), and databases (RDS).
- Architect and operate containerized workloads using Amazon EKS, including cluster management, scaling, and security.
- Security & Compliance:
- Implement and enforce security controls, encryption, and access management to meet compliance standards such as DISA STIGs directly into IaC modules and other code.
- Team Enablement & Collaboration:
- Act as a cloud subject matter expert, providing guidance and support to development teams to optimize their use of the platform.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to evaluate new cloud-native technologies and recommend solutions that enhance efficiency and capability.
- Champion foundational best practices, includingGitworkflows and the proficient use ofAI toolsto accelerate development and problem-solving.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 3 years of experience in cloud engineering
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- CompTIA Security+
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with VMware vSphere in a hybrid cloud context.
- Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible.
- Familiarity with other public clouds (Azure, GCP).
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript).
- Understanding of common authentication mechanisms, OIDC, OAuth2, LDAP, SAML.
- Experience contributing to open-source projects.
- One or more of the following certifications:
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate/Professional
Clearance:
- An Active TS/SCI is required