Cloud Engineer

We are looking for a Cloud Engineer who is customer focused and passionate about helping large government agencies modernize and transform through pragmatic enterprise strategies.
The ideal candidate will have experience in both tactical and strategic conversations with technical, business and mission leadership. You will play a critical role in helping our team formalize, standardize, and mature our cloud services offerings. You understand the importance of security and believe risk management should be tackled early and not as an afterthought. You are passionate about automation and creating an environment that fosters DevSecOps approaches. You articulate the connection from technical services to business capabilities and help client organizations navigate the tension between evolving traditional IT processes and modern approaches. You also understand that success is not about being a hero, it's about developing a capable team to deliver the right solutions to our customers.
What you'll be doing:
- Creating AWS infrastructure through automation tools like CloudFormation and Terraform.
- Automating configuration management of applications
- Determining the needs of the application teams and building the appropriate infrastructure
- Building CI/CD pipelines
- Working with multiple teams supporting a variety of custom and open-source systems.
- Troubleshooting and advising teams on AWS best practices
What you must have:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other related scientific or technical discipline
- Three or more years' total experience in an IT environment
- Two or more years' of experience deploying applications to AWS using CloudFormation or Terraform with services like, ElasticBeanstalk, ECS, RDS, VPCs, CloudFront, WAF, and Lambda.
- Two or more years of experience planning, executing, and navigating on premise to cloud migration
- AWS certification
What we'd like you to have:
- Experience with building full stack web-based applications
- Experience with SQL database configuration and operations
- Preferably experience with modern containerization and orchestration platforms like Docker
Why you'll love working here:
- Generous vacation and retirement plans
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Flexible work location
- Diverse workforce that values equality and inclusion
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
- Friendly community with lots of social events
- Participation in charity initiatives
- Employee support program
Technologies you'll use:
Various AWS services, Docker and containers, Terraform
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Working at ICF
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Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position. The pay range for this position is :
$93,668.00 - $159,236.00
Virginia Remote Office (VA99)
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