ECS is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to work in our Washington, DC office (fully remote).

Job Description:

• ECS is looking for a Senior Engineer to serve as team lead on a mission critical cloud platform service for the Department of Homeland Security.
• The Senior Engineer will be responsible for directly interfacing with the customer,  leading innovation for architecture, tools, and practices within the AWS cloud, and managing a team of 6 engineers.
• Provide design, analysis, and implementation of Cloud Information Systems Architecture, preferably in more than one Cloud Service Providers that have a FedRAMP P-ATO.
• Responsible for, or assists in, the designing of interface standards, quality assurance standards, performance standards, and cost-benefit analysis of modem state-of-the art information systems.
• Analysis and review of available technologies and able to navigate recommendations of technologies to increase security and efficiency of the cloud environment.
• Effective management of relationships with Federal System Owners and ability to navigate long term projects.
• Responsible for leading engineers involved in deploying and configuring services using infrastructure as a service for AWS Cloud Leading emergency and tier III level debugging efforts.
• Identify growth opportunities and lead efforts to grow the customer footprint.

Salary Range: $135,000 - $175,000

General Description of Benefits

Required Skills:

• Minimum of eight (8) years of experience in design, analysis and implementation of information systems architecture.
• Ability to work directly with federal customers and lead a team of engineers.
• Capable of independently applying a wide set of engineering disciplines for planning design, analysis, coding, testing, roll-out and support of information systems architectures.
• AWS Cloud experience.
• Linux experience.
• RHEL experience.
• Ansible experience.
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s Degree.
• US Citizenship is required per contract.
• Ability to obtain a DHS Public Trust Security Clearance.

Desired Skills:

• Eight (8) years or more of AWS Cloud architecture experience for large, complex government systems.
• Experience writing Terraform scripts in AWS for complex cloud environments
• Experience working with Content Delivery Networks like Akamai.
• Relevant AWS certifications, including, but not limited to:
  • AWS Certified SysOps Developer Associate.
  • AWS Certified Developer Associate.
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• Relevant Agile certifications.
• Relevant Red Hat Ansible certifications.

ECS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, status as a crime victim, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. ECS promotes affirmative action for minorities, women, disabled persons, and veterans.

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. We are focused on people, values and purpose. Every day, our 3800+ employees focus on providing their technical talent to support the Federal Agencies and Departments of the US Government to serve, protect and defend the American People.