Windows Engineer - AWS

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Job description

We are hiring candidates for Windows Engineer AWS to support our Federal Client.

Company Name : - JTSi (Johnson Technology Systems, Inc.)
Title: Windows Engineer - AWS
Location: Remote
Security Clearance: DOD Secret (Fully Adjudicated), as a minimum
Citizenship: US

Required Certifications:
Security+ (Or equivalent IA cert) and computing environment certification (i.e. Amazon Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, etc. strongly preferred)

Job Responsibilities:
This is a managed service provider (MSP) for Army IT systems and we support enterprise applications owners in migrating their systems into Amazon AWS and also provide sustainment services to support their applications. This position is for an administrator to support these applications from a migration, modernization, and sustainment role.

JOB DUTIES:

• Collaborate with customers to understand their application environments, evaluate any architectural changes they may need, and develop an architecture that meets the application requirements and utilizes a cloud native approach as much as possible.
• Prepare and submit build and process documentation internally and with external providers to facilitate application deployment and upgrades.
• Deploy and sustain cloud infrastructure to support customer applications.
• Provide daily administration of the Windows based Virtual Machines.
• Harden the Windows based services per commercial best practices and the required government cybersecurity controls.
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of any Windows issues.
• Coordinate and perform major OS version upgrades of virtual machines needing upgrades.
• Develop and maintain system, infrastructure, and process documentation (system diagrams, network topology, software configurations, device configurations, standard operating procedures).
• Develop, deploy, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for deployment and sustainment of Windows based services
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of customer application issues to include network, storage, operating system, and application-level analysis.
• Amazon AWS Portal administration in support of the cloud customers add/modify/delete AWS resources, configuration of alerting and notifications, and general oversight of AWS resources.
• Provide on-call support for triage and resolution of after-hours production incidents.
• Make recommendations for improvements to security, scalability, manageability, and performance across a wide variety of network, storage, and compute services and technologies.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Security+ (Or equivalent IA cert) and computing environment certification (i.e. Amazon Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, etc. strongly preferred)
• Senior level Cloud Engineer experience IaaS required, some PaaS experience preferred
• Baseline knowledge of networking concepts (routing, firewall, load balancing) required; Knowledge of server technologies and application stacks preferred
• Knowledge of Amazon AWS cloud resources
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience effectively managing multiple large-scale projects in a fast paced environment
• Strong troubleshooting skills across the entire technology stack network, storage, server, and applications
• Experience with automation tools and scripting languages (Ansible, Terraform, Python, Powershell, Bash, Puppet, Chef, etc.)
• Working knowledge of DoD STIGs, and IA Vulnerability Management (IAVM) preferred

DESIRED SKILLS:

• 3-5 years of experience in cloud security engineering, with a focus on RHEL and SAP environments
• Expertise in building and maintaining RHEL images, specifically for SAP applications
• 3+ years of experience with developing cloud system requirements (AWS and Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (GitLab, Jenkins)
• In-depth understanding of security practices, including identity and access management, encryption, and network security (NIST and CIS Security frameworks)
• Experience with STIGs and their application in securing systems
• Experience in using Nessus for vulnerability scanning and remediation

If you are available, interested, planning to make a change, or know of a friend who might have the required qualifications and interest, please call me ASAP on / If you do respond via e-mail ( ) please include a daytime phone number so I can reach you. In considering candidates, time is of the essence, so please respond ASAP with your updated resume.

Established in 2003, JTSi is a Professional IT & Engineering Services provider with years of documented experience in the Information Technology and Engineering services field. JTSi has a proven track record for successfully delivering mission critical Professional services to the Government and the industry. JTSi SAP team delivers solutions to its clients by clearly understanding their core business problems. We do what we say!

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