CLOUD ENGINEER

Position Description.
At CGI Federal's Federal Solutions Group (FSG), we are looking for AWS Cloud Engineers to deliver IT excellence and create innovative solutions in the Cloud.
Work with fellow AWS, Azure and GCP architects, developers, and engineers to create solutions, automation, and applications.
Leverage AWS services and APIs to create cloud native applications to support clients and FSG’s Cloud Governance and Managed Service Provider (MSP) practice that can scale across AWS accounts.
This role will be split between client delivery and cloud governance efforts.
Two important factors for the role.
• Due to the nature of the government contracts, we support, US Citizenship is required.
• This is a hybrid role requiring 2 days onsite/week in Fairfax, VA.
Your future duties and responsibilities.
• Become subject matter expert and evangelize the latest technologies and tools to provide better efficiency and solution to other teams.
• Build and implement repeatable architectures and scalable solutions leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines.
Create and maintain CGIF cloud native governance and security solutions that can scale across AWS accounts / Orgs and integrate with third Party SaaS, Azure and CGP services.
• Design and implement secure solutions and architectures for cloud, multiple cloud, and hybrid to support clients, delivery teams, and CGIF Cloud Broker Office (CBO), MSP/Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) practices.
• Document all configuration, management, and optimization changes to the cloud environment.
• Implementing cloud governance at enterprise scale, build, deployment and monitoring standards for the clients.
Support federal clients in AWS deployments, migrations, operations, and maintenance activities.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role.
• 3+ years of experience with AWS Cloud • Ability to convert requirements, documentation and diagrams into deployable templates and code to execute the Cloud Architect’s vision of the solution.
• Embrace and focus on emerging technology and evangelize to the technical teams and projects.
• Experience deploying and maintaining solutions built on AWS IaaS (Infrastructure as a service), PaaS (Platform as a service), and SaaS (Software as a service) offerings.
• Knowledge of at least one programming language (C#, Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Ruby, etc.) or shell scripting language (POSIX shell/Bash, PowerShell, etc.) Ideally Python.
• Knowledge of Git for source code version control and orchestration deployment using CI/CD pipelines • Must own ability to learn fast, adapt to new technology and keep current with industry certifications.
• Needs to have the ability to develop and contribute while working seamlessly in a distributed team via collaboration tools in a hybrid work environment.
• Understanding of Agile and DevOps methods and mindset • Using Infrastructure as Code (AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Pulumi, Terraform) to deploy resources.
Desired Qualifications.
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate, AWS Certified SysOp Administrator - Associate or AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate and Security+ or higher Certifications • AWS Security and Management Services (Certificate Manager, Control Tower, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Config, GuardDuty, KMS, Landing Zone, IAM, Security Hub, Secrets Manager) • Bachelor level technical degree or equivalent experience; Computer Science or Engineering background preferred.
• Developing Serverless applications leveraging AWS services (DynamoDB, Event Bridge, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, Step Functions) • Enterprise ITSM (ServiceNow) development experience • Experience in supporting container-based applications, microservices patterns and API`s in AWS (Docker, AWS ECS, AWS ECR, AWS Fargate, AWS EKS, Kubernetes, OpenShift) CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role.
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