AWS Cloud Engineer - (Federal)

Summary

Sky Solutions is a trusted government-contracting partner that provides federal agencies with cloud solutions, cybersecurity, digital transformation, and IT services. The AWS Cloud Engineer will design, implement, manage, secure, monitor, and optimize AWS infrastructure supporting the U.S. Department of Justice while contributing to automation, cloud operations, modernization, and continuous delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure and services
• Support application environments hosted on AWS, including development, testing, and production environments
• Work with AWS services supporting compute, storage, networking, databases, monitoring, automation, messaging, and application integration
• Support services such as Amazon RDS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, EventBridge, SNS, SES, VPC, and related AWS services
• Implement infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code practices
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, application, networking, performance, and availability issues
• Support cloud security, vulnerability management, identity/access controls, encryption, and compliance requirements
• Assist with cloud architecture, application modernization, migration, and optimization initiatives
• Implement solutions that improve scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
• Support FinOps and cloud-cost optimization activities where applicable
• Collaborate with Java developers, database developers, DevOps engineers, application administrators, security teams, and product teams
• Automate repetitive operational and deployment processes
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, configuration records, and operational procedures

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with **Amazon Web Services (AWS)**
• Strong experience with core AWS infrastructure and application services
• Experience with AWS networking, compute, storage, databases, IAM, monitoring, and security
• Experience with **Amazon RDS and S3**
• Experience with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and related services
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• U.S. Citizenship required
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the applicable federal Public Trust suitability determination
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Developer, SysOps Administrator, or equivalent certification
• Experience supporting **U.S. Federal Government** cloud environments
• Experience with AWS security and compliance requirements
• Experience with DevSecOps and automated security/code scanning
• Experience with Java-based enterprise applications
• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Experience with Oracle databases hosted on AWS
• Experience with containerization and cloud-native technologies
• Experience with FinOps and cloud cost optimization
• Experience with N-1 technology lifecycle and vendor-supported infrastructure

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with **Amazon Web Services (AWS)**
• Strong experience with core AWS infrastructure and application services
• Experience with AWS networking, compute, storage, databases, IAM, monitoring, and security
• Experience with **Amazon RDS and S3**
• Experience with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and related services
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• U.S. Citizenship required
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the applicable federal Public Trust suitability determination

Nice to Haves

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Developer, SysOps Administrator, or equivalent certification
• Experience supporting **U.S. Federal Government** cloud environments
• Experience with AWS security and compliance requirements
• Experience with DevSecOps and automated security/code scanning
• Experience with Java-based enterprise applications
• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Experience with Oracle databases hosted on AWS
• Experience with containerization and cloud-native technologies
• Experience with FinOps and cloud cost optimization
• Experience with N-1 technology lifecycle and vendor-supported infrastructure

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage tailored to your needs.
• Supplemental options like life insurance, disability, HSA/FSA available.
• Starting at 15 PTO days per year, increasing with tenure.
• Plus 11 paid holidays to recharge and spend time with loved ones.
• Annual education stipend.
• Access to thousands of online courses.
• Formal mentorship programs for career advancement.
• “One Team” mentality focused on collaboration and belonging.
• Recognized as a Great Place to Work® for six years straight.