Cloud Engineer

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.

Job Title: Cloud Engineer.
Location: Washington, DC.

The Overall Purpose of Position:

The purpose of this position is to assist Client's IT Operations department accomplish the following objectives:

• Design, develop, document, test, and debug new configuration management (Terraform) infrastructure as code from scratch.
• Operationalize AWS and implement security mechanisms for AWS services.

Scope of Work, the position’s Scope of Work include the following:

• Collaborate with internal teams to architect, engineer, configure and deploy AWS and other infrastructure technologies using approved organizational technologies.
• Work “hand in hand” with System Operations to develop self-service infrastructure provisioning, delivery pipelines, log, and monitoring services.
• Update system documentation as required.
• Collaborate with IT Operations Engineers in installing applications and servers including both physical and virtual types.
• Monitor, fix and improve infrastructure continuously.
• Operates monitoring, alerting, backups, antivirus, anti-spam, malware, etc. as well as offsite storage, and data mirroring.

Essential Skills:

• Terraform.
• General AWS Architecture.
• AWS regional Disaster Recovery.
• AWS S3.
• AWS EC2.
• AWS API Gateway.
• Amazon CloudWatch.
• AWS CloudTrail.
• AWS Trusted Advisor.
• AWS Command Line Interface.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree with a strong academic record.
• AWS Certification.

Qualification and Experience:

• Seven (7) to Ten (10) years of directly related experience.
• Three (3) to Five (5) years of operational and/or Qualification and Experience.
• Experience in systems administration and Engineering in a mature Enterprise environment.
• Extensive Terraform experience.
• Extensive AWS Cloud infrastructure environments including ECS, EC2, API, S3, Lambda and others.
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft and Linux server operating systems and networking.
• Extensive knowledge of back-office systems administration such as antivirus, backups, anti-spam, network monitoring tools, and networking equipment.
• Sophisticated understanding of ports, protocols, and routing and switching in a firewalled, wide-area network.
• Experience with Public Cloud infrastructure management.
• Bonus - Experience with Puppet.
• Bonus - Experience with OpenShift.
• Bonus - Experience with the Atlassian Suite of products.

Length of Experience:

• The minimum amount of total work-related experience required is five (5) years for the position. This means experience in a related area or time spent performing similar work that provides the background for the current position.

Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.