AWS Cloud Engineer

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented AWS Cloud Engineer to join our team. This is a remote position supporting Bluewater Cloud for the United States Navy.

The Cloud Engineer will be supporting an ambitious endeavor to reimagine how our customer, Naval Sea Systems, provides AWS cloud services to its customers. This includes deploying AWS services in a modern, fully automated manner.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot compute assets in AWS
• Compose new Terraform code and/or edit existing code for the deployment of AWS resources
• Take an automation-first approach to the administration and configuration management of resources deployed in AWS GovCloud
• Administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux and/or Windows Server instances and their AMI lifecycle
• Participate in Agile ceremonies as a member of a highly functioning Agile engineering team
• Create, maintain, and update relevant system documentation as required

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other related STEM discipline, or an Associates degree and 2+ years of relevant experience completing tasking relevant to cloud engineering, or a High School Diploma and 4+ years of relevant experience completing tasking relevant to cloud engineering
• Must have an entry-level (or above) cloud computing certification (i.e. AWS CCP, Microsoft AZ-900)
• Must possess a DoD 8570 Computing Environment certification (ex. Sec+)
• Experience in RHEL OS and/or Windows Server with knowledge in maintaining them
• Exposure and/or education to automating cloud deployments/administration with tools like Terraform and/or Ansible in production or lab environments

Preferred Qualifications:

• One AWS associate-level certification (ex. AWS CSAA)
• 1+ years of Terraform experience
• Experience working with GitHub or similar system and Git

Clearance Requirements:

• US Citizenship required and an active Secret security clearance

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%
• Needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations.
• Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations