Cloud Engineer chez ECS Technology Services

ECS is looking for a Cloud Engineer in the Washington, DC area who is passionate about automation, enterprise transformation, and continuously driving innovation to support the Department of Homeland Security. Strong candidates will have a desire to modernize existing architecture and establish innovative new architectures, while driving strategic initiatives that take advantage of modern approaches to technology, business delivery, and data.

The Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing sustainable cloud architectures in AWS and other cloud service providers, while also supporting and building teams that will operate those architectures. They will play a strategic role in painting a vision while merging technical, business, and customer needs into achievable objectives and driving the completion of those objectives. As an expert in delivering technical projects, the Cloud Engineer will identify challenges and improvements, then help a multifunctional team solution and deliver those improvements.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Independently applies a wide set of engineering disciplines for planning, design, analysis, coding, testing, roll-out and support of information systems architectures.
• Continuously optimizing AWS Cloud platform services across all integration points.
• Interact closely with key project stakeholders to design, plan and implement operationally sustainable solutions.
• Work closely with the technical team to deliver proposed designs.
• Provide thought and design leadership.
• Serve as a technical SME for cloud services, providers, and platforms.
• Lead solution architecting sessions evaluating tradeoffs between design, risk, and cost.
• Problem solve challenges as they arise.
• Adapt designs to new requirements or discoveries.
• Leverage data driven approach to continuous solution, organization, and workforce improvement.
• Optimizes performance across multiple teams by suggesting delivery process transformation towards evolving best practices based on each team and project context.

Salary Range: $145,000 - $145,000

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