Cloud AWS Engineer - III

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team. Job Title: Cloud AWS Engineer - III. Location: Richmond, VA. Job Description:

• Serve as a hands-on technical Engineer to provide leadership to products focused on development and implementation of strategic technological initiatives.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code to support proof of concepts.
• Review Infrastructure Code developed by peers and product teams to ensure alignment with business objectives and security standards.
• Provide prioritization and technical leadership to product scrum teams in partnership with Product Owners.
• Validate that new features meet business needs, security requirements and engineering patterns.
• Provide technical leadership through design and implementation oversight to ensure alignment with strategic direction and best practices.
• Lead architectural and engineering discussions for technical, business and management audiences.
• Partner with Client Engagement teams to help applications adopt our products and integrate their applications into TSD platform offerings.
• Partner with our customers, National IT, and TSD technical, operational, and business experts to detect critical architectural and infrastructure gaps and deficiencies in the environment and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Analyze and revise existing system and product documentation as necessary.
• Authorize risk level changes and recommend solutions to minimize and/or prevent system interruption.
• Evaluate, recommend, and select new services, software, and hardware.
• Follow and ensure adherence to technical standards for programming and design techniques, and train System technical staff on use of software/hardware tools in accordance with required standards and procedures.
• Monitor compliance with internal standards.

• USC Required, Richmond/DAL locations are preferred, candidates must be within commutable distance to the Fed locations, CST/EST preferred.
• Peraton Required.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• 3 (Senior) / 6 (Advanced) years of experience providing technical delivery of large projects by working with stakeholders from business, development, and infrastructure domains.
• 2 years of experience with Cloud-based technologies and concepts, including virtualization, containerization, and infrastructure as code.
• Cloud Platform (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc) associate-level certification or equivalent experience. Knowledge and hands-on experience developing solutions utilizing DevOps and/or Infrastructure as code.
• Experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Cloudformation, CDK, etc).
• Strategic thinking and demonstrated ability to provide high-level technical analysis and thorough research.
• Experience working with large infrastructure hosting environments including knowledge of Application Hosting, distributed messaging architectures, network technologies (e.g., VPNs, TCP/IP, Firewalls, Routing, etc.), security technologies (e.g., public key cryptography and infrastructure, smart cards, authentication, authorization, etc.).
• Demonstration of thorough understanding of how discrete infrastructure components work together to provide integrated solutions.