AWS Solutions Engineer
Job Summary
The AWS Solutions Engineer will design complex, secure, and enterprise-scale cloud solutions while managing multi-cloud environments. This role focuses on continuous improvement, infrastructure as code, and troubleshooting within highly regulated frameworks. The successful candidate will leverage a growth mindset to drive operational excellence in networking, security, and data analytics.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement secure cloud solutions using IaC
- Monitor and maintain cloud compliance and security posture
- Troubleshoot complex AWS environment issues
- Manage cloud networking, costs (FinOps), and data platforms
Required Skills
- AWS Cloud Services
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
- Cloud Security & Compliance (CIS/STIG)
- Multi-cloud Networking
- FinOps and Data Analytics
Job Details
### Role Overview
This position involves designing complex solutions, troubleshooting AWS environments, and ensuring continuous improvement in alignment with regulatory requirements. You will work across multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP) to deliver secure infrastructure.
### Key Responsibilities
- **Solution Design:** Develop and implement reusable cloud patterns and solutions using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for self-service secure delivery.
- **Continuous Monitoring:** Improve compliance and cyberposture through AWS Security Hub, Config, Cloudtrail, Guardduty, and Azure Defender integration.
- **Problem Solving:** Troubleshoot and resolve AWS cloud environment issues and document findings for team knowledge transfer.
- **Networking:** Manage network connectivity, security groups, route tables, subnets, VPC allocations, VPNs, and peerings while balancing reliability and costs.
- **FinOps:** Effectively manage resource costs, budgets, anomalies, and reporting.
- **Data Analytics:** Manage big data analytics platforms, workloads, and data tiers.
### Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in information systems or relevant field and 4+ years of practical experience (or Master's degree and 2+ years of experience).
- Ability to obtain a public trust/interim approval.
- Proficiency in self-managing tasks using M365 tools.
- Demonstrated ability to independently resolve issues and operate with a growth mindset.
- Hands-on experience building multi-cloud networks with secure routing and firewalls.
- Practical knowledge of regulatory controls, baselines, and security policies (CIS benchmarks, STIG, etc).
- Experience with AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, or equivalent tools.
### Beneficial Qualifications
- Operational exposure to GCP.
- Experience with containerization technologies and methodologies.