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.
- 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.
- 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
US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED
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What We Do
Passion and Purpose. We are a start-up borne out of a group of architects and engineers providing solutions that transform with digital breakthroughs.
We Partner - Partnership to us means being all in - on the ground, in the weeds, producing and delivering mission solutions.
We Innovate - driving digital innovation and experimentation to improve decision services for the American people.
We Engage – co-creating to deliver HCD (human centered design) to solve tour customers digital challenges.
We Deliver – and take pride and accountability in everything we do.
We are Ignite IT.
Ignite IT deploys teams that are customer-obsessed, delivering a CX (Customer Experience) renaissance to our Private and Public Sector customers. We combine Commercial BX (Business of Experience) with customer delivery experts to benefit agencies to innovate and improve services and launch new digital solutions. We have built a company foundation dependent on each of our employee’s success, and provide a healthy, engaging, community where learning and knowledge sharing are encouraged. We empower our employees to be bold, continually innovate and propose new ideas to improve processes and services. We engage daily on work that touches millions of people, always focusing on positive impacts and results.
We enable mission services that enable Enterprise companies to succeed in digital transformation, protect Border Agents, deploy the Army Reserve and National Guard, providing decision dominance to make America safer. We apply these digital services across the Private and Public Sectors to include include HHS, DHS, AOUSC and Army. We aim to continually raise the bar for our customers to expect more from their digital services. For more information, visit www.igniteitservices.com
