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Salary $100,000 a year job type full-time
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Basic qualifications : bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field or equivalent experience is required plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience; or master’s degree plus 6 years of relevant experience
Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, u.sCitizenship is requiredResponsibilities for this position: the general dynamics mission systems (gdms) information technology (it) organization staffs a full time amazon web services (aws) cloud team that develops and operates a suite of automation for gdms engineers to rapidly adopt and stay secure in awsThe it aws team also provides solution architecture support to engineers after they’ve been onboarded into the aws environmentThe gdms engineering organization sees aws as their development environment of the future, and as such the gdms it aws team finds itself with a unique opportunity to invent and evolve the business’ most relevant computing environmentMembers of the team enjoy great career growth potential, broad organizational impact, and exciting professional challenges.
Gdms it is looking for a seasoned aws engineer to add to this core aws teamThe position requires substantial aws experience, preferably in the areas of security, automation, and solutions architectureThe position also requires substantial experience supporting tech savvy end users of a computing environmentThis work can be done remotely, so a work-from-home arrangement is acceptable for this position even post-pandemic.
Duties and tasks:
Configures, and administers aws technologies, infrastructure, and applications to meet the organizations requirements
Partners with it architecture and other it teams to design, deploy, manage, and operate of scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems in aws by working directly with the stakeholders
Lead and perform the installation and configuration of aws management applications by leading to large sized efforts
Develops, and designs software automation and scripts to orchestrate aws and virtualization technologies with defined scope, schedule and expectations
Mentors team members on analysis of summary data on aws resource deployment and participates in taking corrective actions
Monitors requests and key metrics for aws resources, as well as the performance of systems in the cloud and directs remediation
Troubleshoots issues and plans for future aws capacity requirementsDevelops roadmap and business case for capacity growth
Identifies, manages and resolves aws security risks and implements best practices as applied within a cloud environment
Provides subject matter expert technical support to customers using aws products, solutions and apis
Lead the identification and documentation of product bugs and feature requests and works with internal support teams, external providers, as well as customers to implement effective solutions
Supports and leads the evaluation of new service offerings from aws to determine potential usage by gdms
Provides technical leadership and work direction to other employees
Knowledge, skills and abilities:
Expert in designing and implementing enterprise services in aws
Expert in infrastructure automation through scripting
Expert in configuration management using cloudformation, and similar technologies
Expert with security, risk and compliance frameworks, disaster recovery, high availability architectures, hardware, operating systems and networking connectivity
Expert with virtualization technologies: server, storage, networking
Expert in computer programming languages: c, c sharp, c++, perl, php, or python.
Expert in scripting languages, and software automation skills
Detailed and fully proficient knowledge of technology trends and champions new ideas and product and process improvements
Shows initiative on assignments, and professionally executes projects with very little direction, or can provide direction and leadership to technical teams
Fully proficient ability to handle significant responsibility, leadership and accountability while executing complex assignments
Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
Knowledge of systems architecture
Able to accept & integrate constructive feedback
Demonstrates ability to work collaboratively and effectively with a wide range of individuals
Demonstrates ability to learn and apply gdms culture, policies and processes
Lean-agile mindset demonstrates the understanding and familiarity with the lean-agile mindset
Lean-agile principles and practices (includes devsecops, scurm, safe, and kanban)
Lean-agile principles and practices (includes devsecops, scurm, safe, and kanban
Minimum salary: usd $100,000.00/yrMaximum salary: usd $137,500.00/yrSalary note: note: the compensation information listed is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to the colorado equal pay for equal work act and equal pay transparency rulesIt is estimated based on what a successful colorado applicant might be paidIt assumes that the successful candidate will be in colorado or perform the position from coloradoSimilar positions located outside of colorado will not necessarily receive the same compensationCompany overview: general dynamics mission systems (gdms) engineers a diverse portfolio of high technology solutions, products and services that enable customers to successfully execute missions across all domains of operationWith a global team of 12,000+ top professionals, we partner with the best in industry to expand the bounds of innovation in the defense and scientific arenasGiven the nature of our work and who we are, we value trust, honesty, alignment and transparencyWe offer highly competitive benefits and pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purposeYou will also enjoy a flexible work environment where contributions are recognized and rewardedIf who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high performance team!
General dynamics is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that is committed to hiring a diverse and talented workforceEoe/disability/veteran
