Aws Cloud Engineer

NSS is actively looking for an AWS Cloud Engineer to support a contract with the Department of State. This individual will be expected to be onsite 3 days a week in Herndon, VA. This individual also must be a

US Citizen

and hold an

Active Secret Clearance

.

Work Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Strong customer service skills, teaming skills, and the ability to collaborate within a cross-functional team
Participating in an on-call rotation
Hands-on experience working with tools and technologies in, at minimum, two of the following areas software development, configuration control, testing, security, automation, containerization, orchestration, cloud services, open-source technologies.
Powerful analytical and problem-solving skills - including the ability to develop solutions in new and creative ways.
Ability to combine knowledge and expertise from diverse areas in new/unique ways to solve problems.
Strong ability to lead disparate teams from different groups form consensus.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
Strong ability to brief senior executives with little notice.
Comfortable in a fast paced/dynamic environment.
Ability to function in an action officer type role when needed.

Qualifications

8+ years related experience.
Bachelor's Degree required in a relevant field. Master's Degree in a relevant field preferred
Experience with AWS services like Lambda, EC2, EMR, Redshift, Glue, S3, IAM, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB etc.
Deep systems engineering comprehension of the state of the art in large scale cloud implementation and migrations in cloud environments, the infrastructure considerations, and the respective best practices and challenges.
Experience in designing and deploying cloud solutions to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
NSS is V3 certified and an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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