EDP Cloud Engineer

EDP Cloud Engineer – Washington, DC

Custom Software Systems, Inc. (CSS) is seeking an EDP Cloud Engineer to support our client’s Enterprise Data Platform (EDP), a secure AWS GovCloud environment supporting enterprise data, analytics, and AI/ML workloads.

This hands-on position will support the provisioning, automation, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting of cloud infrastructure using AWS, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Git-based version control, and CI/CD technologies.

The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of enterprise IT experience, a strong foundation in AWS cloud services and networking, and experience supporting DevOps/CI/CD environments. This role requires strong technical problem-solving skills and the ability to collaborate with senior platform, security, infrastructure, application, and development teams.

Location: Washington, DC
Work Arrangement: 100% onsite. Hybrid and remote candidates will not be considered.
Citizenship Requirement: U.S. Citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot AWS infrastructure supporting EDP development, test, and production environments.
• Support AWS services and infrastructure involving networking, compute, storage, IAM, logging, and monitoring.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and/or other approved automation technologies.
• Support CI/CD pipelines used to deploy infrastructure and platform configurations across development, testing, and production environments.
• Maintain infrastructure code and configuration in Git-based source-control repositories, preferably GitLab.
• Configure and administer AWS networking components, including VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, service endpoints, and connectivity.
• Support infrastructure associated with containerized workloads running on Amazon EKS/Kubernetes.
• Configure and maintain platform monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and health checks.
• Monitor and analyze AWS CloudWatch logs, metrics and alarms, and CloudTrail events to identify operational and security issues.
• Assist with implementing standardized and secure AWS configurations aligned with organizational security requirements and engineering standards.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, connectivity, permissions, and platform issues in collaboration with senior engineers and technical teams.
• Support cloud infrastructure upgrades, security and maintenance updates, configuration changes, feature deployments, and environment maintenance.
• Maintain audit logging and operational visibility required for security reviews and compliance activities.
• Support secure cloud connectivity patterns, including private connectivity, service endpoints, egress controls, and integration with enterprise network services.
• Build and maintain development, sandbox, and proof-of-concept cloud environments using repeatable infrastructure configurations.
• Identify unused or underutilized AWS resources and assist with cloud cost-management initiatives.
• Support onboarding of applications, development teams, and platform users by provisioning infrastructure, permissions, and environment configurations.
• Automate routine platform administration and operational activities using IaC, scripting, APIs, and command-line tools.
• Support integrations between AWS infrastructure and enterprise data, analytics, security, and monitoring platforms.
• Participate in incident troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action implementation.
• Participate in platform capacity planning, infrastructure scaling, and performance monitoring.
• Maintain technical documentation, including infrastructure configurations, deployment procedures, operational runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and architecture diagrams.
• Work with development teams to maintain dev, test, and production environments, monitor platform health, provide infrastructure design recommendations, and support automated deployments.

Required Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Minimum 7 years of Information Technology experience in an enterprise environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with Scrum, Agile engineering, Lean methodologies, and/or DevOps.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: system development, software development, hardware development, or mission support.