Senior AWS Cloud Engineer
The Swift Group4 months ago
Herndon, VA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Deploy and maintain AWS infrastructure supporting multiple development teams.
- Automate complete infrastructure deployments using AWS CloudFormation YAML templates and Ansible.
- Manage infrastructure scripts and templates in GitHub using Git for version control.
- Set up and maintain Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
- Configure and manage AWS EC2, Elastic Load Balancers, auto-scaling groups, CloudWatch alarms, dashboards, alerts, and S3 files and permissions.
- Monitor servers and infrastructure for issues and assist security teams with implementing compliance controls.
Requirements
- 7+ years of relevant DevOps experience.
- Experience managing Elastic Load Balancers and auto-scaling groups with AWS EC2.
- Experience configuring AWS CloudWatch alarms, dashboards, and alerts.
- Experience managing files and permissions in AWS S3.
- Experience building infrastructure as code with AWS CloudFormation and YAML templates.
- Strong Linux troubleshooting and Bash scripting skills.
- Experience building and maintaining Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and using Ansible for server automation.
- Strong knowledge of Git and GitHub for version control of infrastructure as code.
- Bachelor’s degree or 5+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- US citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.
- Desired experience with API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Kubernetes infrastructure, multiple development teams, Agile two-week sprints, and AWS certification.
Benefits
- Onsite position in Herndon, Virginia.
- Employee referral bonus program is offered for hired referral candidates, paid after the new hire’s 90-day mark.
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About The Swift Group
The Swift Group is a privately held IT services and solutions firm headquartered in Reston, Virginia, founded in 2019. It delivers software development, systems engineering, data science, cyber enablement, logistics, and training to U.S. civilian, defense, and intelligence community clients, largely via federal contracts. Engagements often involve global operations and secure environments, and many positions require U.S. citizenship and high-level clearances (e.g., TS/SCI with polygraph).