MSM Technology A Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) located in Quantico, VA is looking for an AWS Engineer. We strive to provide the next generation of cutting-edge technologies. Our growth means exciting career opportunities for talented professionals in engineering, software development, and other key areas. We offer competitive compensation and benefits including Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance, a matching 401k plan, and other benefits given below, excellent training, and a vibrant working environment. Our employees are exceptional, giving us a competitive advantage by innovating solutions with a strong sense of mission and integrity.

One of our clients needs a remote AWS Engineer for a permanent position.

Position: AWS Engineer

Position Type: Remote

Clearance: Public Trust

Specific Job Responsibilities:

The applicant must have engineering experience and extensive AWS knowledge and experience with integration, system analysis or programming experience, including developing AWS systems requirements and design specification. The AWS Engineer will be responsible for resolving complex incidents, providing expert troubleshooting, and performing proactive monitoring of AWS Infrastructure and services. A passion for performance, strong desire for quality conformance, and attention to detail are prerequisites for this position. The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience in the following:

Incident Response and Troubleshooting:

Serve as an escalation point from Tier 2 support for complex incidents and outages within the AWS GovCloud environment

Investigate and resolve issues across various AWS services EC2, RDS, S3,VPC, Lambda, and IAM

Perform root cause analysis to address underlying infrastructure issues and provide solutions to prevent recurrence.

Manage and resolve high-priority incidents, ensuring timely communication with stakeholders and affected tenants

Monitoring and Optimization:

Continuously monitor tenant environments using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and other tools (Dynatrace, Splunk) to detect performance issues, security incidents, and infrastructure bottlenecks

Utilize Dynatrace, Splunk, or other proactive monitoring tools to mitigate potential issues before they escalate

Analyze system performance and recommend optimizations to improve stability, efficiency, and security

AWS Infrastructure Management:

Manage and maintain the AWS infrastructure, including EC2 instances, S3 buckets, VPC configurations, RDS databases, and other services

Ensure that all tenants’ s AWS resources are secure, FedRAMP compliant, and optimized for performance.

Collaborate with the Architecture team to implement solutions that align with best practices for AWS cloud infrastructure

Adhere to Change Management procedures:

Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing

Manage intake for assignment of newly created incidents

As a team lead, work with Service Delivery Manager and support ISR Product owner to help work to improve overall team metrics (JIRA/ServiceNow)

Collaborate and train Tier 2 engineers to resolve incidents and implement improvements

Document incident response procedures, resolutions, and lessons learned to enhance team knowledge and preparedness for future incidents.

Provide technical mentorship and knowledge sharing to Tier 2 support teams.

Required Qualifications/Skills:

Required Certification: Relevant AWS Certification (AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Cloud Practitioner, etc)

5+ years of integration and systems analysis experience focused on AWS cloud services and infrastructure

3+ years of extensive hands-on experience with a wide range of AWS services including but not limited to EC2 instances, S3 buckets, VPC configurations, RDS databases, and other services

Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and resolving high- priority incidents in large, multi-tenant environments

Extensive knowledge and understanding of AWS GovCloud and deploying in Government environments.

Exemplary communication, analytical skills, and technical knowledge across the client environment.

Ability to produce concise and clear technical documentation.

Preferred Skills:

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CodeDeploy, or CodePipeline

Experience with PowerShell, AWS CLI, or other automation scripts to troubleshoot and resolve issues

AWS Certified SysOps Developer Associate

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Relevant Agile CertificationOther Certifications such as Red Hat Ansible

Public Trust- Ability to obtain a DHS Public Trust Security Clearance (called “Entry on Duty”)

US Citizenship required – personnel with Permanent Resident (Green Cards) or Work Visas are not eligible for this position

If you are interested in this position, please send me a copy of your latest resume at usman.khan@iquasar.com with the information requested below: Also, please let me know what time/number is best to call to discuss this great opportunity.

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