Senior AWS ArchitectEngineer

Senior AWS Architect/Engineer

Selected candidate must reside within two (2) hours of SSA Headquarters in Woodlawn MD. Selected candidate must be willing to work onsite at least 2 days a week.

Key Required Skills:

Systems Admin supporting Middleware Enterprise Applications managing complex systems/projects workflow technical knowledge of AWS platform and applications in AWS IaaS PaaS SaaS environments understanding Network functions/team collaboration.

Position Description:

Provide engineering and operations support for the AWS CCaaS platform.

Analyze application and platform and translate functional requirements into technical solutions.

Provide recommendations to solve technical business problems and identify opportunities and risks.

Provide cloud architectural platform optimization consulting expertise to technical leads cloud engineers and other systems architects.

Document and review IT cloud architecture/infrastructure and technology portfolio.

Provide recommendations and implementation of cloud technology standards policies and standards.

Attend all customer technical discussions/design/development meetings and provide technical inputs to further enhance the code quality/process.

Impact functional strategy by developing new solutions processes standards or operational plans that position customer competitively in the marketplace with best practices.

All other duties as assigned or directed.

Skills Requirements:

FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS (Basic Qualifications)

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Mathematics Engineering or a related field

Masters or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience.

7 years of experience in Ansible Kubernetes Containers GitLab Jenkins Jira Confluence and CloudFormation

7 years in AWS Cloud Services such as VPC EC2 EKS ECR EFS EBS S3 RDS DynamoDB CloudFront SQS Elastic Load Balancing Auto Scaling Route 53 Cloud Watch and IAM.

5 years of experience practicing AWS Cloud Computing DevOps CI/CD Infrastructure Automation Configuration Management and Quality Engineering Expertise.

Proficiency with integrating AWS applications with inhouse systems e.g. CRM ServiceNow

Contact center migration experience from legacy systems to cloud hosted capabilities.

Experience working in Agile Practices (e.g. SAFE Scrum)

Must be able to obtain a public trust clearance.

FACTORS TO HELP YOU SHINE (Required Skills)

These skills will help you succeed in this position:

Strong understanding of cloud computing architecture and design principles.

Experience with infrastructure as code automation and deployment strategies.

Experience with deploying and managing cloudbased solutions in production.

Solid AWS Services Experience: Connect EC2 Cloud Formation VPC ELB AWS Security S3 RDS EBS ECS.

Extensive handson experience with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools for automation (Ansible).

Handson experience with programming languages (e.g. Python Ruby or PowerShell).

Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios Splunk).

HOW TO STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD (Desired Skills)

Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:

Experience with Lean / Agile development methodologies.

Excellent oral and written communication skills and experience working in a team environment.

Handson and architectural experience with modern Cloud Native architectures.

Delivery (CI/CD) best practices and use of DevOps to accelerate quality releases to Production.

Design and build highquality scalable and secure cloudbased solutions on the AWS platform.

Experience working in a PaaS/SaaS environments Agile practices and serviceoriented environments.

Selfstarter highly motivated individual who adapts and isnt afraid to volunteer in a dynamic work environment.

Strong attention to detail with an ability to operate effectively across multiple priorities.

Adept at working independently but also in a team environment.

Demonstrated experience delivering technology solutions in a fastpaced deadline driven enterprise environment.

Excellent understanding of change management testing requirements techniques and tools to ensure high availability of systems.

Prior Federal government experience

Education:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Mathematics Engineering or a related field with 7 years of experience

Must be able to obtain a public trust clearance.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Headquartered in Leesburg Virginia Zenius Corporation is a HUBZonecertified small business. Zenius specializes in providing Grants Management IT Modernization Acquisition Management and Financial Management services to Federal agencies. Zenius is selected by Inc 5000 as one of the fastestgrowing companies in the DC Metro Area award for two years in a row 2021 and 2020. Zenius is also listed by Financial Times as one of the fastestgrowing companies in the Americas in 2021. Zenius is an awardee of 2019 Best of Leesburg winner (Business Management Consultant category). Learn more at.

BENEFITS

Zenius Corporation is a very employeeoriented company. Join us now and help us grow!

We offer a competitive benefits package that includes paid holidays and paid time off medical insurance including health vision dental insurance 401K matching Flexible Spending Account and flexible schedules as per business needs. We also work with our employees on training and professional certification plans that benefit the employee.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:

Zenius Corporation provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age disability genetic information marital status amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws. Zenius complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including but not limited to hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

Zenius Corporation expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age genetic information disability or veteran status.