Senior Systems Engineer - AWS Cloud Platform & IaC

The Senior Systems Engineer – AWS Cloud Platform & Infrastructure-as-Code sustains the AWS GovCloud platform supporting Army biometric systems. The engineer provides cloud administration, infrastructure-as-code, Linux/Windows systems engineering, automation, configuration management, monitoring, patching, cybersecurity remediation, and platform troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Administer and sustain AWS GovCloud compute, storage, operating-system, monitoring, and supporting platform services.
• Develop, review, maintain, and control Terraform infrastructure-as-code used to provision and configure AWS resources.
• Administer and troubleshoot Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server environments.
• Develop and maintain configuration automation using Ansible, Jenkins, Git/GitLab, Python, Bash, JSON/YAML, or similar technologies.
• Monitor infrastructure health, availability, resource utilization, logs, storage, and system performance.
• Perform operating-system and platform patching and technical STIG remediation.
• Maintain system and infrastructure configuration baselines and support configuration/change management.
• Review infrastructure changes and code/configuration updates before implementation.
• Support cloud backup, recovery, disaster-recovery, and continuity activities.
• Support system integration, releases, regression testing, troubleshooting, and production issue resolution.
• Work with Cyber/ISSO personnel to implement and document vulnerability remediation.
• Cross-train with network and DevOps engineers to maintain operational coverage.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant engineering discipline
• Seven (7) years of professional experience in systems engineering
• AWS GovCloud experience.
• Experience with software integration or testing, including analyzing and implementing test plans and scripts. Understanding of ANSI/NIST ITL and DoW Electronic Biometric Transmission Specification (EBTS).
• Familiarity with biometric systems. Knowledge of system-of-systems engineering and integration directorate processes.
• Experience with DevOps practices and tools, including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Secret security clearance.

Preferred:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Git/GitLab.
• Windows Server.
• Python/Bash.
• Configuration management.
• STIG remediation and DoD hardened environments.
• AWS certification.