[Remote] AWS Security Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence across the globe. They are seeking an AWS Security Engineer to support secure development and modernization in a government multi-cloud environment, responsible for incident response, monitoring, and AWS infrastructure management.

Responsibilities

• Harden AWS environments and remediate STIG findings in accordance with NIST SP 800-53 and DHS 4300A requirements
• Maintain and improve the golden image pipeline to ensure compliant baselines
• Serve as an escalation point from Tier 2 support for complex incidents and outages within the AWS GovCloud environment
• Investigate and resolve issues across various AWS services EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, Lambda, and IAM
• Perform root cause analysis to address underlying infrastructure issues and provide solutions to prevent recurrence
• Manage and resolve high-priority incidents, ensuring timely communication with stakeholders and affected tenants
• Continuously monitor tenant environments using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and other tools (Dynatrace, Splunk) to detect performance issues, security incidents, and infrastructure bottlenecks
• Utilize Dynatrace, Splunk, or other proactive monitoring tools to mitigate potential issues before they escalate
• Analyze system performance and recommend optimizations to improve stability, efficiency, and security
• Manage and maintain the AWS infrastructure, including EC2 instances, S3 buckets, VPC configurations, RDS databases, and other services
• Ensure that all tenants' s AWS resources are secure, FedRAMP compliant, and optimized for performance
• Collaborate with the Architecture team to implement solutions that align with best practices for AWS cloud infrastructure
• Adhere to Change Management procedures
• Collaborate with other team engineers to resolve development issues/incidents and implement improvements
• Document solution designs, process procedures, and lessons learned to enhance team knowledge
• Provide technical mentorship and knowledge sharing to more junior engineers less familiar with pipeline and infrastructure automation

Skills

• Bachelors degree and 12 years of experience or a Masters degree and 10 years of experience or a High School Diploma/Equivalent and 16 years of experience
• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain/maintain a DHS Public Trust (EOD)
• 5+ years of experience in cloud services and infrastructure
• 3+ years of extensive hands-on experience with automation involving a wide range of AWS services including but not limited to EC2 instances, S3 buckets, VPC configurations, RDS databases, and other services
• Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and resolving high-priority incidents in large, multi-tenant environments
• Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and resolving high-priority incidents in large, multi-tenant environments
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of AWS GovCloud and deploying in Government environments
• Exemplary communication, analytical skills, and technical knowledge across the client environment
• Ability to produce concise and clear technical documentation
• Experience with PowerShell, AWS CLI, or other automation scripts to troubleshoot and resolve issues
• AWS Certified SysOps Developer Associate
• AWS Certified Developer - Associate
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
• Relevant Agile Certification
• Red Hat Ansible
• AWS Cloud Practitioner

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life
• Health savings account
• Short/long term disability
• EAP
• Parental leave
• 401(k)
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation
• Company paid holidays

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