Lead AWS Network Engineer

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Lead AWS Network Engineer to join our team in Virginia Beach, VA. This is a remote position supporting Bluewater Cloud for the United States Navy., * Build and maintain scalable AWS network architectures including VPCs, Transit Gateways, and other AWS service offerings

• Implement and manage Network ACLs, Security Groups, AWS WAF, and AWS Network Firewall to protect against external threats
• Develop and maintain infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu via robust CI/CD processes
• Optimize traffic flow using DISA IODYN, Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB)
• Participate in Agile ceremonies as a member of a highly functioning Agile engineering team
• Use VPC Flow Logs, CloudWatch, and Traffic Mirroring to diagnose bottlenecks and resolve outages

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other related STEM discipline and 12+ years of general IT experience, or an Associates degree and 14 years of general IT experience, or a High School Diploma and 16+ years of relevant general IT experience in lieu of degree
• Experience in VPC peering, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, and Endpoints
• Hands-on knowledge of OSI model, TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, and IPsec
• Must possess a DoD 8570 Computing Environment certification (ex. Sec+) and at minimum an associate-level AWS certification (ex. ASW CSAA)
• Experience and knowledge of DoW network architecture and paradigms (ex. BCAP, NIPR, SIPR, etc.), * AWS Networking Specialty certification
• Extensive networking experience working with the US Navy in particular
• Experience automating cloud deployments/administration with tools like Terraform and/or Ansible
• 2+ years of Terraform experience
• Experience working with GitHub or similar system and Git to deploy infrastructure changes

Clearance Requirements:

• US Citizenship required and an active Secret clearance

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%
• Needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations.
• Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations