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.