Job description
Astor & Sanders Corporation - Cloud Engineer
Astor & Sanders Corporation (Astor), an award-winning IT solutions provider headquartered in McLean, VA, is seeking a Cloud Engineer for a 100% remote position.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Lead analysis and research to roadmap existing technologies and plan for future upgrades/enhancements, including AWS cloud migration, reengineering, and product/solution replacement.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand solution requirements and identify architectural patterns.
- Develop strategies for transitioning IT services to AWS cloud-hosted solutions.
- Perform trade-off analyses between various AWS services and recommend optimal solutions.
- Serve as the primary contact for cloud-related solutions, designing scalable and resilient cloud architectures, and defining migration strategies.
- Monitor cloud resource compliance with industry standards and best practices.
- Research and propose solutions for data transformation, data connections, operational frameworks, and application integration within AWS.
- Conduct technical planning, system integration, verification, validation, and evaluate alternatives considering cost, risk, and supportability.
- Ensure clarity and compliance with organizational standards and document functional and non-functional requirements.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Information Technology, or related field.
- Hands-on experience migrating multiple on-premises applications to AWS.
- 5+ years of experience with cloud services (public, private, or hybrid), including planning, development, migration, and administration of cloud-based applications and services.
- Expertise in effective cloud computing procedures.
- Strong experience in architecting AWS cloud migration solutions.
- Practical knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, and others.
- Experience with Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions using SAML, LDAP, etc.
- Experience with cloud relational and NoSQL databases.
- Ability to communicate complex technical issues clearly to stakeholders.
- Exposure to microservices, containers, and managed cloud services.
- AWS cloud certification is desirable.
- Experience with government cloud migrations is a plus.
Visit www.astor-sanders.com for more information. Astor & Sanders Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Benefits:
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) and all Federal Holidays off
- Comprehensive health and dental insurance
- Retirement savings plan
- Pre-tax benefits
- Wellness and work-life support
- Professional development opportunities
- Performance and referral bonuses
- Life and disability insurance