Job description

Overview:Soft Tech Consulting is seeking a highly-motivated, self-directed individual to fill the role of a Sr Cloud Engineer. The designated candidate for this position will join a collaborative team environment, providing support necessary toward the successful delivery of the project deliverables and provide effective communication to all levels of staff for reporting design/development. The place of performance for this position is in Washington, DC.

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TOP SECRET CLEARANCE REQUIRED*
REMOTE WORK POSSIBLE
Responsibilities:

• Act as liaison between the client operations teams for support and escalations.
• Communicate service delivery health to all stakeholders and explain any performance issues or risks.
• Ensure Cloud orchestration and automation capability is operating based on target SLAs with minimal downtime.
• Hold performance meetings to share performance and consumption data and trends.
• Maintaining AWS resources and services at optimal efficiency, availability, performance, and cost
• Lead cost optimization efforts to maintain cloud budget and SLAs
• Develop cloud formation templates to build immutable infrastructure on AWS
• Able to work in an agile, cross-functional team
• Develop AWS lambda functions in Python or other languages for operational or business functional purposes
• Evaluate, respond to, and resolve AWS service issues leveraging AWS support when needed
• Drive technical innovation and efficiency in infrastructure operations via automation and orchestration
• Conduct capacity planning analysis and cloud budget planning
• Work with peers inside and outside the team to promote and expand automation of operational tasks
• Oversee the deployment of patches and upgrades, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities as required
• Manage the monitoring, updating, optimization, redundancy, stability of cloud systems
• Manage AWS services such as IAM, EC2, S3, VPC, Lambda, SNS, Cloudwatch, Redshift, RDS, Config, ECS, EKS, ALB, security groups
• Work with AWS engineers on Kubernetes (EKS), ECS and Docker containers
• Assist other teams with provisioning and getting appropriate access to AWS resources.
• Work with the team to estimate the cost footprint of new AWS resources and services and conduct general forecasts for our AWS architecture.
• Support the documentation, roles and responsibilities, and processes necessary to ensure systems meet security requirements.
• Support AWS infrastructure changes during planned maintenance windows, as well as ad-hoc support for unplanned outages.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Minimum 8 years experience
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Experience with AWS Cloud Formation
• Experience with AWS Architecture
• Experience with AWS DevOps & Development
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
• Able to work independently with little to no oversight

About Us:Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is a woman and minority-owned small business headquartered in Chantilly, VA. With contracts in both the public and private sectors in the DC metro area and across the country, Soft Tech is an organization made up of highly successful and talented Information Technology professionals offering enterprise class solutions for any size organization at great value. Soft Tech’s mission is to help government organizations design, implement, and maintain mission critical Information Technology solutions. By focusing jointly on our employees and our customers, we are able to achieve our mission by providing each and every one of our customers with continuous quality customer support.

Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Type: Full-time

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