AWS Engineer - Cloud Migration and Modernization

General Dynamics Information Technology • Falls Church, VA

13h • Hybrid

About The Position

Are you an AWS Cloud Migration Engineer with a passion to help Public Sector customers innovate by moving their applications to the cloud? Do you have a track record of successful migrations where you have led workload migration and modernization projects? Do you have hands-on experience with modern cloud migration tooling? As a GDIT AWS Cloud Migration Engineer, you will lead the technical aspects of Public Sector migration and modernization efforts to the AWS environment throughout the entire lifecycle of the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP).

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree (BA/BS) with five (5) years of practical AWS cloud migration experience or a high school diploma with eight (8) years of practical cloud migration experience.
• A minimum of six (6) successful cloud migrations.
• Experience delivering across all phases of the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) and methodology.
• Hands-on experience with cloud migration tooling (native AWS and 3rd party tooling).
• Deep knowledge of AWS EC2 EKS, Lambda, EBS, EKS, VPC, RDS, DynamoDB, RedShift, Step Functions, and CloudWatch.
• Experience with Landing Zones (LZ) and Trusted Secure Enclaves (TSE).
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using the AWS SDK, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Ansible, Python, CDK or similar.
• Must have the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
• US Citizenship required

Responsibilities

• Assess customer environments and develop the cloud migration strategy and project phases.
• Perform customer portfolio assessments and wave planning.
• Leverage cloud migration tooling (both AWS and/or third party).
• Leverage existing – or develop new – migration patterns.
• Develop target, end-state architectures.
• Migrate customer workloads to the AWS cloud environment.
• Document AWS deployed solutions and environments.
• Work with a multi-disciplinary team to capture engagement intellectual capital and formalize learnings into formal methodologies and templates.
• Mentor other cloud engineers in cloud migration processes and technologies.
• Ensure adherence of target cloud environments with federal frameworks like FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, RMD, CMMS, FISMA, DoD IL5-IL7 or HIPAA.

Benefits

• Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
• To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
• We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level