Ready to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in federal services today? Join us and unleash your potential working in an agile environment alongside the men and women charged with ensuring the success of one of the most important missions in American Government. As a Cloud Services Engineer you will help build and maintain core AWS infrastructure that supports secure, scalable, and highly available cloud environments. You will provision and configure foundational AWS services like EC2, RDS, VPC, and S3, while implementing best practices around networking, load balancing, monitoring, and backup. You’ll also play a key role in automating infrastructure using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform, and ensuring operational excellence through tagging, alerting, and optimization strategies. This is a great opportunity to shape resilient cloud environments that power mission-critical workloads.
As a Cloud Services Engineer You Will
Build out foundational AWS services (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3).
Configure load balancing, autoscaling groups, and endpoint security.
Setup routing, firewalls, NATs, and direct connect gateways.
Implement monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards.
Perform maintenance tasks, patching, and system optimization.
Automate infrastructure using CloudFormation or Terraform.
Requirements
3+ years of hands-on experience provisioning and managing core AWS infrastructure services, including EC2, RDS, VPC, Route 53, ELB, and S3.
Strong knowledge of AWS networking concepts such as VPC architecture, subnetting, security groups, NACLs, and Internet/NAT Gateway configurations.
Proven experience implementing resiliency and monitoring solutions using AWS tools like Auto Scaling, CloudWatch (alarms and metric filters), and CloudTrail.
Expertise in designing and automating backup and disaster recovery strategies, including snapshot scheduling, AWS Backup, and multi-region failover planning.
Familiarity with resource and cost management best practices, including tagging strategies, AWS Config rules, and usage of Trusted Advisor for optimization and compliance.
Bachelor's degree in related technical field.
US Citizenship Required.
AWS certifications highly preferred.
Benefits
401(k) with matching and 100% Vested
Health Insurance - 3 plans to select from
Dental insurance
Vision Insurance
Health savings account
Life insurance
Short Term Disability
Long Term Disability
AD&D
Paid time off
Professional development assistance
Training
Tuition reimbursement
Flexible schedule
Flexible spending account
Referral program
Paid Legal Plan
and more....
Ignite IT is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran status, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristic. In accordance with EO 13665 Final Rule, Ignite IT will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
Applicants selected must be able to possess and maintain a government clearance