Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Job Title: Senior AWS Cloud Engineer
Client: Federal Government
Ref# GAO-2
Location: Remote with occasional travel to the client site in Baltimore. Candidates must currently live within a commutable distance of the office.
Employment Type: W2 on ExpediteInfoTech's payroll. This position requires a Permanent resident or a U.S. citizen. The selected candidate will go through a Public Trust Clearance process.
Responsibilities:

• Build, integrate, and deploy multi-cloud environments that support data science and emerging technology prototypes.
• Experience in supporting AI implementation projects is required.
• Key activities include cloud infrastructure automation, hardening, operations, and maintenance. Establish continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with security being integral to the pipeline stages and implement identity management.
• Additional activities may include: deploying capabilities via CI/CD pipeline, maintaining server and database compliance including patching, and automating using scripting languages. Support the activities to obtain and maintain ATO for prototypes.

CI/CD, DevSecOps, and Deployment Automation:
Build and maintain automated build, test, and deployment pipelines, including:

• CI/CD pipeline design and implementation (CodeCommit, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline)
• Container image creation and management (Docker, ECS, EKS)
• Security scanning integration (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning)
• Release management across dev/test/prod environments
• Infrastructure deployment automation
• Secrets management and secure configuration practices
• Infrastructure-as-code development and maintenance using GAO-approved tools (AWS CDK, CloudFormation).