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# AWS Solutions Engineer

- **Company:** Mountain LTD
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** $80,080.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Networks, Disaster Recovery, Domain Name System (DNS), Identity and Access Management, Subnetting, Python (Programming Language), Routing, Cloud Services, TCP/IP, Software Vulnerability Management, Load Balancing, Firewalls (Computer Science), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Cloud Migration, CIS Benchmarks, Cloudwatch, Terraform
- **Published:** October 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/d3c3e73a-6aeb-475e-a84c-e745c5316f18

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in information systems or relevant field and 1-3 years of practical experience in the field.
 * Ability to obtain public trust clearance.
 * Ability to independently manage assigned work, document technical activities, communicate issues, and seek assistance when appropriate.
 * Demonstrated self-initiative to build enterprise-like AWS systems and resources that align with well-architected frameworks.
 * Understanding of fundamental networking concepts including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, subnets, and firewalls/security groups, with the ability to apply systematic troubleshooting methods.
 * Basic understanding of infrastructure security concepts such as least privilege, vulnerability remediation, system hardening, and security baselines.
 * Hands-on experience building solutions with CloudFormation, Terraform, Python, or other tools.

## Description

* Support AWS infrastructure including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, load balancing, DNS, and related services.
 * Implement infrastructure changes using established architecture, procedures, and infrastructure-as-code.
 * Maintain and modify Terraform and/or CloudFormation configurations under guidance from senior engineers.
 * Monitor cloud resources and investigate availability, performance, configuration, and security issues.
 * Troubleshoot networking, operating system, application connectivity, permissions, DNS, and cloud-service issues.
 * Support vulnerability remediation, patching, configuration compliance, and security-hardening activities.
 * Assist with cloud migrations, modernization efforts, disaster recovery, and infrastructure lifecycle activities.
 * Develop scripts and automation to reduce repetitive administrative work.
 * Maintain technical documentation, diagrams, procedures, and change records.
 * Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.
 * Work with senior engineers to learn cloud architecture, security, networking, automation, and operational best practices.
 * Gradually assume ownership of cloud services and technical workstreams as experience develops.