AWS Cloud Solutions Engineer

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Job: DFA AWS Cloud Solutions Engineer (742175)

Location : 1515 W. 7th St., Room 503, Little Rock, AR 72201

Duration: Long Term

Client : State of AR

ON-SITE Work Only. If your candidate is not local is he/she ready to relocate to the Little Rock, Arkansas area to begin work Day 1?

DFA AWS Cloud Solutions Engineer is responsible for analyzing user requirements and procedures to migrate, modify, and support existing systems, and review system-wide capabilities and workflows to efficiently manage and secure these very large systems.

Anticipated Start/End Date: August 1st to 8/31/2025, with possibility to extend additional years.

On-Site Work

Overview

DFA is migrating the Arkansas Integrate Revenue System Tax (AIRS Tax) and Driver Services/Motor Vehicle (AIRS DSMV) COTS systems from the current on premise data center to the AWS Cloud environment.

The DFA AWS Cloud Solutions Engineer is responsible for analyzing user requirements and procedures to migrate, modify, and support existing systems, and review system-wide capabilities and workflows to efficiently manage and secure these very large systems for the AIRS Service Center.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide primary operational support and engineering for the public cloud platform, and debug and optimize systems and automate routine tasks.

• Plan, design, and implementation of workload migrations from on premises to AWS Cloud.

• Configure, monitor and assist with the maintenance and support of the infrastructure environment within the AWS environment.

• Configure, tune, and maintain AWS services like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Systems Manager, Network Firewall, WAF, Security Group, Tagging, Network ACL's and Routing Tables.

• Setup and maintain Gateway Load Balancer and Internet Gateway.

• Setup and maintain VPC's in different Availability Zones, including WFCS and SQL installations and HAG.

• Setup and maintain backup solutions using AWS native services. This includes EC2 instances, FSX Servers, various S3 storage types, AMI, and Infrastructure as Code Scripts like Cloud Formation and Terraform.

• Configure, automate, and monitor AWS CloudWatch alarms and notifications for system(s) health checks.

• Design, develop and maintain Executive Level dashboards for system(s) utilization, health, and cost.

• Setup and maintain security using tools like AWS Guard, AWS OU, IAM, CrowdStrike, and Tenable.

• Environment hardening to meet compliance requirements and configuration rules for Pub 1075, PII, and NIST frameworks.

• Collaborate with other IT resources and vendors to resolve application and/or infrastructure related issues to the existing AWS environment.

• Maintain technical documentation of the existing AWS environment related to storage, backups, & patching.

• Participate in the selection of new technologies while maintaining departmental information technology and security standards.

• Effectively communicate with Management, co-workers, AMS, and business partners.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Hands-on experience migrating/implementing significant applications on AWS Cloud platforms

Required

4

Years

AWS web environment design and build experience, which includes AWS services like EC2, ELB, Systems Manager, FSX, SES, SNS and S3

Required

4

Years

Experience using AWS security solutions such as WAF, Network Firewall, Security Group, Tagging, Network ACL's, Routing Tables, Gateway Load Balancer

Required

4

Years

Experience using Internet Gateway, AWS Guard, SecurityHub and GuardDuty

Required

4

Years

Experience with high volume, mission critical applications and their interdependencies with other applications and databases

Required

4

Years

Infrastructure to Code scripting using Cloud Formation, or other languages, and AMI

Required

4

Years

Monitoring, maintenance, and support of the infrastructure within AWS environments

Required

4

Years

Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch and CloudTrail

Required

2

Years

Experience configuring CrowdStrike and Tenable

Required

2

Years

Experience and knowledge of AWS network-level logging configuration and management

Required

4

Years

Configuration and maintenance of AWS dashboards

Required

4

Years

Experience with all facets of IT including Networking, DB Systems, Security, DevOps, Backup, DR and modern development methodologies

Required

4

Years

Experience designing and implementing common shared services across enterprise applications

Required

4

Years

Strong analytical skills and ability to resolve complex business/IT problems

Required

4

Years

Microsoft Windows Server System Administrator experience

Required

GenTax architecture and application maintenance experience

Desired

Familiarity with industry security standards and best practices (PUB1075, FIPS, CIS, NIST, PII)

Highly desired

Strong communication skills, both oral and written

Highly desired

Availability to provide 24 hour support

Highly desired

Experience using Incident Management software solutions like Jira

Highly desired

AWS Solutions Architect certification

Thanks & Regards.

Manikanta Yerra
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