Company Description

ClientSolv Technologies is an IT solution firm with over a decade of experience serving Fortune 1000 companies, public sector and small to medium sized companies. ClientSolv Technologies is a woman-owned and operated company that is certified as a WMBE, 8a firm by the Federal government's Small Business Administration.

Job Description

We are seeking an AWS Security Engineer for a contract-to-hire opportunity onsite in Denver, CO.  The AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for AWS solutions development, architectural design, and maintenance activities of a secure AWS infrastructure encompassing multiple accounts and external interfaces running primarily on Centos Linux and Microsoft Windows. The ideal candidate should have professional experience operating multi-account AWS environments, interacting effectively with customers and development teams, gathering and analyzing requirements for the design of new systems and infrastructure which satisfy business requirements.  The responsibilities of this role are as follows:

• Provide comprehensive systems administration functions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure to include support of AWS products such as: AWS Console root user administration, Key Management, EC2 Compute, S3 Storage, Relational Database Service (RDS), AWS Networking & Content delivery (VPC, Route 53, ELB, etc.) Identity & Access Management, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Cloud Formation, Auto Scaling, Cost and Usage Reports, and more
• Assist with the design and development of a multi-account, multi-region, highly available and highly automated AWS environment to support full software development life cycle and production of mission-critical applications
• Administer, operate, and maintain Amazon Web Server EC2 instances
• Complete recurring system and security updates to mitigate risk and improve overall infrastructure information security
• Maintain a highly available production infrastructure
• Provide application support for product customers
• Create new AWS cloud compute instances, storage, and other cloud services
• Analyze EC2 instance and S3 storage performance and resize to meet performance requirements and to control costs

Qualifications

Education

B.S. / B.A. degree or equivalent required

Experience:

• Experience working with AWS, deep understanding of AWS concepts, and fluency with the AWS APIs/command line tools.
• Experience implementing and maintaining cloud-bases systems and application in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• 5+ years of advanced working knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems
• Experience automating server configurations to include standard build installations and system security hardening
• Python scripting experience is required
• Experience with core network services to include: DHCP, DNS, VLAN, load balancing, etc.
• Experience writing standard operating procedures, system requirements, and other technical documents
• Experience collaborating with cross functional teams to achieve a shared project goal
• Experience centrally monitoring systems for alerts and incident management functions; preferable with Amazon CloudWatch
• Scripting language experience (Python, NodeJs, etc.)
• Strong working knowledge of automation tools such as (Puppet, Jenkins, and Chef)
• Working knowledge of software-defined lifecycles, product packaging, and deployments
• Working knowledge of RDS database such as PostgresSQL, Oracle, and MySQL

Additional Information

This contract-to-hire role will be located in Englewood, CO