Ready to ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in the GovCon Industry? Join us and unleash your potential! As an AWS Cloud Engineer/Architect, you will design, upgrade, and implement scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure solutions on AWS. If you have a passion for modernizing applications, supporting mission-critical platforms, and driving innovation in the cloud, this is a great opportunity to make an impact.
Role and Responsibilities (include but are not limited to):
- Evaluate and select appropriate AWS services based on project requirements.
- Design and implement integration strategies and data flow architectures for cloud-based systems.
- Upgrade and maintain AWS components, including regular EKS version upgrades and cluster patching.
- Support and manage Kafka topics within the solution environment.
- Develop and maintain Terraform scripts to automate infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and management across multiple environments (Dev, QA, Stage, Prod).
- Configure and deploy AWS compute, networking, and storage resources (EC2, VPC, S3, EBS, EFS, RDS, etc.).
- Deploy and manage containerized environments using Kubernetes and Amazon EKS.
- Migrate applications and data from legacy systems to AWS; implement ETL processes and optimize data pipelines for performance and cost-efficiency.
- Implement AWS security best practices, including IAM roles/policies, encryption, security groups, and VPC configurations.
- Conduct security audits and assessments to ensure compliance with FedRAMP, FISMA, and federal security standards.
- Monitor AWS resources and applications using CloudWatch, Datadog, or equivalent monitoring tools for performance and availability.
- Troubleshoot integration, networking, and cloud infrastructure issues.
- Provide ongoing operational support for AWS infrastructure and production environments.
- Collaborate with SME’s, developers, security teams, and program stakeholders to ensure resilient, secure, and compliant cloud services.
- Document infrastructure designs, upgrade processes, runbooks, and best practices for knowledge transfer.
Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain a federal background investigation.
- Minimum of 8 years of hands-on cloud experience with at least 3+ years in AWS.
- Bachelor’s degree in IT-related field (or equivalent experience).
- Strong proficiency with AWS services, including networking, compute, storage, and security.
- Proven experience with:
- Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) — deploying, upgrading, and supporting clusters.
- Terraform for Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Kafka administration and topic management.
- CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
- Monitoring/observability tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, Grafana.
- Experience automating infrastructure workflows and integrating APIs/SDKs with AWS services.
- Strong knowledge of DevSecOps practices and compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST).
- Ability to work closely with technical SMEs, security teams, and OCIO leadership to ensure secure, integrated, and optimized solutions.
- Familiarity with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), AWS database services, and large-scale storage solutions.
Benefits
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Top Skills
What We Do
Passion and Purpose. We are a start-up borne out of a group of architects and engineers providing solutions that transform with digital breakthroughs.
We Partner - Partnership to us means being all in - on the ground, in the weeds, producing and delivering mission solutions.
We Innovate - driving digital innovation and experimentation to improve decision services for the American people.
We Engage – co-creating to deliver HCD (human centered design) to solve tour customers digital challenges.
We Deliver – and take pride and accountability in everything we do.
We are Ignite IT.
Ignite IT deploys teams that are customer-obsessed, delivering a CX (Customer Experience) renaissance to our Private and Public Sector customers. We combine Commercial BX (Business of Experience) with customer delivery experts to benefit agencies to innovate and improve services and launch new digital solutions. We have built a company foundation dependent on each of our employee’s success, and provide a healthy, engaging, community where learning and knowledge sharing are encouraged. We empower our employees to be bold, continually innovate and propose new ideas to improve processes and services. We engage daily on work that touches millions of people, always focusing on positive impacts and results.
We enable mission services that enable Enterprise companies to succeed in digital transformation, protect Border Agents, deploy the Army Reserve and National Guard, providing decision dominance to make America safer. We apply these digital services across the Private and Public Sectors to include include HHS, DHS, AOUSC and Army. We aim to continually raise the bar for our customers to expect more from their digital services. For more information, visit www.igniteitservices.com
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