Job Description
ECS is seeking a Sr. AWS Cloud - Cyber Range Engineer to join our team in Arlington, VA (Hybrid).
ECS is seeking talented professionals to join our growing team supporting the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency''s (CISA) Technical Engineering and Support Services (TESS) program. TESS is CISA''s integrated, capability-driven mission ecosystem designed to scale across mission and delivery spaces within the DHS/CISA/Cybersecurity Division. This is a hybrid position.
Position Overview
We are seeking a Senior AWS Cloud / Cyber Range Engineer to support the operation, maintenance, security, and modernization of a federal cybersecurity training environment. This role will provide hands-on engineering support for a cloud-hosted Cybersecurity Virtual Learning Environment (CVLE) used to deliver interactive cybersecurity labs and training.
The engineer will initially work alongside the existing support team to learn the environment, architecture, security boundary, operational processes, and lab ecosystem. Following the transition period, the engineer will assume primary responsibility for the day-to-day engineering, operation, availability, security, and continuous improvement of the environment.
This position requires a strong AWS infrastructure engineer who is equally comfortable with cloud operations, automation, virtualization, vulnerability remediation, and federal cybersecurity requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize an AWS-hosted cybersecurity training and virtual lab environment.
- Assume primary engineering responsibility for the platform following completion of the transition and knowledge-transfer period.
- Maintain availability and reliability of infrastructure supporting cybersecurity training courses, instructors, administrators, and students.
- Manage AWS infrastructure, including compute, networking, storage, identity and access management, monitoring, and security services.
- Develop, maintain, test, and deploy Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and other virtual lab components.
- Support development of new cybersecurity lab environments and promote approved lab images from development into production.
- Manage provisioning and deprovisioning of virtual machines and student lab environments.
- Develop automation to reduce manual configuration, environment setup, reset, provisioning, and administrative activities.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code and configuration-management practices where appropriate.
- Monitor platform health, capacity, performance, security, and availability and troubleshoot infrastructure or application-support issues.
- Maintain the cybersecurity posture of the environment and support continued Authority to Operate (ATO) requirements.
- Identify and remediate Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEVs), critical/high vulnerabilities, security findings, and other government security requirements.
- Support POA&M remediation and provide technical evidence or documentation necessary to demonstrate implementation of security controls.
- Coordinate with cybersecurity training developers, course owners, vendors, security personnel, and government stakeholders.
- Document platform architecture, operational procedures, configurations, dependencies, troubleshooting procedures, and engineering decisions.
- Identify opportunities to improve platform scalability, resilience, automation, cost efficiency, maintainability, and security.
Salary Range: $165,000 - $190,000
General Description of Benefits
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Arlington, VA |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $165,000–$190,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 50 to 99 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | http://www.ecs-federal.com/ |
About Company
ECS was founded in 2001 by experienced IT professionals with a commitment to quality processes, people and performance. Led by our Chairman, Roy Kapani, and an experienced executive leadership team, ECS provides our customers with solutions and services that support their critical needs and further mission objectives. This commitment has paved the way for expansive growth, year over year.
ECS gained market share in 2011 in the Department of Defense and Federal spaces through both organic and acquisition growth. In May, ECS completed its first strategic acquisition with the purchase of OAK Management, Inc., a leading provider of marine environmental services, ship systems engineering, maritime consulting and platform acquisition management. The OAK acquisition kicked off ECS’ intention to add tactical acquisitions as a part of its long term strategy to supplement and expand upon organic growth and to build enterprise value. ECS closed out 2011 with the acquisition of Paradigm Technologies, Inc. The Paradigm transaction added approximately 200 employees to ECS’ existing 900+ employees. Paradigm also added new Defense clients for ECS, including the Missile Defense Agency, the Navy’s Program Executive Officer for Integrated Warfare Systems, the United States Marine Corps, and the U.S. Marshals Service.
In 2012, ECS completed the acquisition of iLuMinA Solutions, Inc. iLuMinA brings large-scale Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software implementation and infrastructure design and development to ECS’ expanding capabilities.
ECS will continue to invest in corporate infrastructure and quality processes as we grow and enhance our ability to offer professional excellence to both our customers and our employees.
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