This position requires an ACTIVE SECRET security clearance.  Your application will not be reviewed if you do not have an ACTIVE security clearance at SECRET or above. 


Elevate Government Solutions is a high growth Technology Services company focused on driving technological change in the government space. Our teams engage with various government agencies to develop and deploy emerging technology solutions using a tailored Agile methodology. 


We are seeking a highly motivated and intellectually curious AWS SRE Engineer to join our team working with a Federal client. The position will be a remote role open to US citizens residing in the Washington, DC area with a Secret security clearance. 


Responsibilities and Duties

  • Develop and execute best practices, including providing support engineering architectures on AWS GovCloud. 
  • Partner with application teams to develop practical monitoring solutions and participate in cross functional team meetings to collaborate and ensure successful executions. 
  • Maintain internal documentation that fully reflects all activity related to an application and environment to be used by applicable teams. 
  • Utilize modern monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, etc. 
  • Remediate vulnerabilities/patching operating systems using Ansible and AWS Systems Manager, creating hardened AWS AMIs, and other security related activities. 
  • Troubleshoot and resolve operational issues, assisting with issues arising from product upgrades, installations, and configurations.
  • Experience with AWS services, e.g., EC2, CloudWatch, RDS, S3, EKS, VPC, etc.
  • Must be able to work independently with little to no daily supervision, is a team player, open to ideas and learning.
  • Work in a distributed team environment where team members are spread across numerous locations and often communicate virtually to support clients. 
  • Work as a team member closely with the Project Manager, Business Analyst, Technical lead and others to ensure implementations are completed on time and within budget

 

Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications

  • Must have skills: Cloud Infrastructure; Cloud Provisioning; Cloud Service Management; AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS); AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM); AWS Relational Database Service (RDS); Amazon VPC; Amazon S3; Amazon Web Services EC2; Amazon Web Services VPC; Terraform; Docker; Ansible; JavaScript Object Notation (JSON); Automation, Orchestration & Provisioning;
  • Desired Skills: Production experience running Kubernetes workloads ideally on AWS EKS. 
  • 4-6 years experience operating in a production environment. 
  • 4 years experience engineering in the AWS cloud. 
  • Container orchestration experience using AWS EKS clusters in a production environment.  
  • Experience with VPC, AZs, Subnets, Route53, CloudWatch, ALB/NLB, Security Groups, EKS, and EC2. 
  • Strong knowledge of RHEL/Linux operating systems and Docker/Kubernetes constructs. 
  • Strong knowledge of networking concepts, e.g., OSI model, DNS, TCP/UDP, IPv4/IPv6, and BGP. 
  • Strong Operations mindset with experience with Git, CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, YAML, and JSON.
  • Ability to work with US Federal clients and possess a Secret clearance
  • Skilled in verbal, written and oral communication
  • Strong team player with a great attitude
  • Flexibility and willingness to go beyond the call of duty. Highly self-motivated and directed.  (a go getter)
  • Ability to take ownership and drive issues to closure

Education Requirement:

  • 4 year Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Eng or related (highly preferred)

  • CKAD or CKA Certification. 

  • AWS Solutions Architect or DevOps certification


Benefits

  • Health Insurance

  • 401k match

  • Remote work 

  • Training

  • Mentoring/Coaching



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