IT Engineer III -AWS

Summary: The IT Engineer III - AWS role involves enhancing cloud engineering practices through automation in AWS, focusing on Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipeline configurations. The position requires a strong background in IT systems engineering, coding, and cloud services, with responsibilities including maintaining documentation and supporting operational teams. This is a 12-month contract position with potential for extension, based remotely or in a hybrid setup in Vienna, Virginia. The role is classified as outside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Enhance Cloud engineering practice by automating manual business and IT processes in Amazon Web Services (AWS) with common Infrastructure as Code services such as CloudFormation, Code Pipeline, SSM Automation Documents, Config Rules.
• Build CI/CD pipeline configurations to orchestrate provisioning and deployment of both large- and small-scale systems.
• Write unit tests and integration tests to validate infrastructure code.
• Identify engineering defects in the existing code base and constantly improve the code quality.
• Actively support operational teams and other stakeholder teams to maintain business continuation and maintain customer satisfaction.
• Maintain configuration and support documentation.
• Manage assigned project components to deliver services in accordance with established objectives.
• Design & implement automated workflows for AWS network configurations, VPC account creations.
• Microsoft 365 tenant domain change, Microsoft Entra ID, managing domain, Active Directory alignment, migrating Windows and Linux systems, and knowledge of our tools like SharePoint, Teams, Exchange, etc.
• PowerShell and Graph API Automation.

Key Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in technical fields such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required.
• 5-7 years experience required.
• Broad knowledge of IT Systems engineering.
• Coding skills using these languages/tools (python, shell scripting, windows PowerShell, java, .net framework).
• Extensive understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment methodologies.
• Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and cloud services.
• Experience utilizing cloud services (AWS) and ability to quickly learn new cloud services.
• Implement automation to utilize / integrate / provision/ manage/ monitor cloud services (Build infrastructure as code).
• Experience with building containers on windows base image using .net framework.
• Experience with developing harden baseline automation a plus.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT