AWS Engineer - Cloud Migration and Modernization

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Secret

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Cloud: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Migration Execution, Cloud Migration Planning, Cloud Migrations, Cloud Migration Tools

Certifications:

None

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

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).

Primary 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, DoW IL5-IL7 or HIPAA.

Required Qualifications:

• 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.
• Location: Washington DC Metro.
• Must have the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
• US Citizenship required

The likely salary range for this position is $127,500 - $172,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

10-25%

Telecommuting Options:

Hybrid

Work Location:

USA VA Falls Church

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

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.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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