SMX is seeking a driven and talented Cloud Engineer, with a background in AWS account management and/or DevOps, to join our thriving Cloud Services business unit and work with some of the best Cloud Architects and Cloud Engineers in the market.  This individual will bring a passion for technology, a strong technical skill set, and proven experience in the development or DevOps space.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Work effectively within a delivery-centric professional services organization
• Navigate client-facing engagements and work in tandem with other vendors
• Support execution activities across the full project lifecycle
• Contribute to technical discussions both internally and with customer or vendor teams
• Focus on cloud-native services and optimizing the customer landscape through adoption of these services
• Define and engineer solution capabilities that satisfy customer business drivers / requirements and meet service delivery objectives
• Produce high-quality, well-written technical documentation, including design plans, implementation diagrams, data flow mappings, and as-built documents

Required Skills/Experience: 

• Clearance: TS/SCI Eligible
• Mon - Friday on site support in Charlottesville, VA
• Security+ Certification
• 3+ years of experience in a role that encompasses software development, DevOps, or infrastructure automation, as well as systems engineering
• Basic AWS troubleshooting- IAM roles and policies, account configurations, network issues
• Familiar with JIRA, Terraforms and Cloud Formation, deploying updates
• Ability to work with Managed Services to help onboard accounts, security patching
• Experience developing solutions from scratch using tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, Packer, AWS Code* and related products
• Ability to build code pipelines and support deployment activities
• A good understanding of foundational AWS components (e.g. VPN, Direct Connect, IAM, CloudWatch, "cross account" capabilities)

Desired Skills/Experience: 

• Experience working across multiple vendors or directly with customer teams in support of common goals
• Must have a good understanding of network architectures and should be comfortable dealing with network configurations using scripting
• Hands-on experience writing and deploying AWS Lambda functions and/or IaC ( Infrastructure as Code)
• Demonstrate the ability to improvise solutions and/or build things faster, either with automation or with existing products
• Basic knowledge of containers and related services
• Basic knowledge of serverless architecture patterns and their components
• Basic knowledge of Azure or GCP services

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