Senior AWS Engineer

Description :
Must be able to obtain a public trust clearance. (no felonies)
·        Selected candidate must reside within two (2) hours of SSA Headquarters in Woodlawn, MD
·        Systems Admin supporting Middleware, Enterprise Applications, managing complex systems/projects, workflow, technical knowledge of AWS platform and applications in AWS IaaS, PaaS, SaaS environments, understanding Network functions/team collaboration.

(Basic Qualifications)
·        Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field
·        Master’s or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience.
·        7+ years of experience in Ansible, Kubernetes, Containers, GitLab, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence and CloudFormation
·        7+ years in AWS Cloud Services such as VPC, EC2, EKS, ECR, EFS, EBS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, SQS, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Route 53, Cloud Watch and IAM.
·        5+ years of experience practicing AWS Cloud Computing, DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure Automation, Configuration Management, and Quality Engineering Expertise.
·        Proficiency with integrating AWS applications with inhouse systems e.g., CRM, ServiceNow
·        Contact center migration experience from legacy systems to cloud hosted capabilities.
·        Experience working in Agile Practices (e.g. SAFE, Scrum)

(Required Skills)
·        Strong understanding of cloud computing architecture and design principles.
·        Experience with infrastructure as code, automation, and deployment strategies.
·        Experience with deploying and managing cloud-based solutions in production.
·        Solid AWS Services Experience: Connect, EC2, Cloud Formation, VPC, ELB, AWS Security, S3, RDS, EBS, ECS.
·        Extensive hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools for automation (Ansible).
·        Hands-on experience with programming languages (e.g., Python, Ruby or PowerShell).
·        Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, Splunk).