Job Title: IT Engineer V Specialized
Location: Reston, VA/Washington DC
Duration: 12 months Contract with possible extension
 
Job Description:
Analytics CoE team is looking for an AWS Cloud Container Management Specialist that will be playing a key role in helping on Analytics-Grid Lift and Shift to AWS Cloud and bring in key transformational changes to how we deploy Analytics Tools (Python, R, RStudio, etc) using cloud native architecture.
 
Duties & Responsibilities    

• Analyze requirements presented by Product Owner and design sustainable solutions to advance container management (registry, orchestration & compute) for Analytics tools


• Manage, lead and drive discussions with Architecture, InfoSec teams and come up with technical architecture and design and help on container deployment strategies


• Participate and drive scoping and technical requirements gathering sessions with client stake holders


• Development and management of workloads involving containers


• Support containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes on AWS


• Drive automation using popular cloud orchestration, configuration management, and CI/CD systems


• Participate in production software deployments working closely with team members to ensure the proper transition of system changes into the production environments


• Develop & maintain technical documentation including system diagrams & operational procedures

 
Required qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience in AWS container orchestration systems (EKS, ECS, Openshift)


• 5+ years of production experience with Dockerizing application runtimes and hosting in the cloud


• 5+ years production experience with cloud orchestration tools like Cloud Formation or Terraform


• 5+ years of production experience with setting up CI/CD pipelines in systems like Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline


• 5+ years of production experience with full software development lifecycle in a team environment


• 3+ years of Python, R with a preference for Python


• 3+ years of production experience with core AWS services

 
Key Competencies:

• Knowledgeable in the AWS Well Architected Framework


• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and time-management skills


• Strong communication (verbal and written) and listening skills


• Strong teamwork, planning, and coordination skills


• Self-motivation, adaptability, and the ability to meet aggressive deadlines


• Ability to independently research and resolve technical problems in a complex IT environment with local and remote groups