AWS Engineer

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with other scrum team members to develop and implement DevOps culture across the project team.
• Work with the application team and focus on AWS infrastructure and automation.
• Champion and lead infrastructure automation.
• Design, develop, implement, and configure AWS cloud environments and tools.
• Implement security controls and security features to support and address cybersecurity challenges.
• Implement monitoring best practices to take proactive steps and troubleshoot production problems.
• Perform configuration and automation using a broad range of AWS services.
• Support the build of a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline to trigger automation suite.
• Maintain the automation suite in the cloud platform.
• Coordinate with other development contractors and Cloud/DevOps Engineers.
• Configure network connections to test environments and infrastructures, in both mainframe and cloud infrastructure.
• Implement development and enhancement of CloudFormation and Terraform scripts for the AWS infrastructure.
• Execute implementation plans in the AWS environment for a variety of initiatives ranging from load balanced EC2 scaling groups to Lambda functions.
• Lift and shift third-party tools to cloud and unit test - test scripts.
• Document architecture best practices and strategies associated with application deployment and infrastructure support.
• Manage AWS resources and native cloud services and products.
• Maintain the continuity of operations with 100% up time.
• Participate in all phases of Agile ceremonies.
• Clear written and verbal communications skills to manage and lead troubleshooting calls, communicate effectively with various stakeholders.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Experience with core AWS platform architecture, including areas such as: Organizations, Account Design, VPC, Subnet, segmentation strategies.
• Familiarity with monitoring the operations and security of EC2, containers and AWS services.
• Familiarity with executing Stacks, Stack Sets, CloudFormation scripts, etc.
• Familiarity with network connectivity, AWS Direct Connect and AWS Site-to-Site VPNs.
• Familiarity with encryption like AWS KMS.
• Familiarity with logging with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, etc.
• Working experience on Load Balancing Technologies (emphasis on F5, others might be an added advantage).
• Experience with AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) to Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) migration.
• Experience working within a Continuous Integration environment using Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience with GitHub, BitBucket versioning systems and tools like Puppet and Ansible.
• Experience in performing and supporting backups, upgrades, and patches.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, and other collaborative platforms.
• Ability to conduct daily system monitoring and experience in maintenance and Operations tasks, manage system resources and application performance.
• Experience with operational tools like New Relic, Kibana, Elasticsearch, etc., to perform Splunk Searching and Reporting, perform New Relic Monitoring.
• Experience with building tools such as Maven, Gradle, ANT, Grunt etc.
• Experience with OpenShift.
• Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Candidates must have lived in the United States 3 out of the past 5 years.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Experience working with Mainframe systems.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in technical field.
• 8+ years of Application Development / Maintenance and/or Application Administration.
• 4+ years of experience maintaining the AWS infrastructure and supporting applications.
• 4+ years of experience with DevOps tools, Monitoring tools like Splunk, New Relic, Jenkins.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive compensation and a 401(k) with employer contributions to help you plan for the future.
• Flexible paid time off and hybrid ways of working that support true work-life balance.
• Comprehensive health coverage—including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• A curated in-office experience designed to foster community, team connections, and innovation.
• Opportunities to give back through Sparksoft Cares, including annual company-wide fundraising events.
• Training and development programs that build new skills and prepare you for leadership roles.
• A collaborative, transparent, and fun culture—recognized as a Great Place to Work®.