AWS Cloud Solutions Engineer
Job Description
Job Openings:
1
Experience:
10-12
Yrs
Published On:
Jun 24, 2025, 05:19 pm
Job Description
**Client: State of Arkansas**
**VISA: USC, GC, H4EAD, H1B**
**Looking: DFA AWS Cloud Solutions Engineer (766595)**
**Work Location: 1515 W. 7th St., Room 503, Little Rock, AR 72201 (Hybrid)**
**Anticipated Start/End Date: July 1st to 12/31/2025, with possibility to extend additional years.**
**On-Site Required First 2 Weeks – Optional remote after 2 weeks for exceptionally qualified applicants.**
**Qualified candidates will be responsible for providing these requirements with minimal supervision and support.**
**Short Description:**
DFA is seeking a highly skilled AWS Cloud Solutions Engineer who will be responsible for configuration, migration, modification, support, and management of these very large systems in the AWS Cloud for the AIRS Service Center.
**Position 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 configuration, migration, modification, support and management of these very large systems in the AWS Cloud 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 Transit 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 using CDK in Typescript.
* 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, and business partners.
* Perform other duties as assigned.
**Skill Matrix:**
**Skills**
**Exp required**
**Exp Have**
Hands-on experience migrating/implementing significant applications on AWS Cloud platforms
4yrs
AWS web environment design and build experience, which includes AWS services like EC2, ELB, Systems Manager, FSX, SES, SNS and S3
4yrs
Experience using AWS security solutions such as WAF, Network Firewall, Security Group, Tagging, Network ACL’s, Routing Tables, Gateway Load Balancer
4yrs
Experience using Internet Gateway, AWS Guard, SecurityHub and GuardDuty
4yrs
Experience with high volume, mission critical applications and their interdependencies with other applications and databases
4yrs
Infrastructure to Code scripting using CDK in Typescript, Cloud Formation, and AMI
4yrs
Monitoring, maintenance, and support of the infrastructure within AWS environments
4yrs
Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch and CloudTrail
2yrs
Experience configuring CrowdStrike and Tenable
2yrs
Experience and knowledge of AWS network-level logging configuration and management
4yrs
Configuration and maintenance of AWS dashboards
4yrs
Experience with all facets of IT including Networking, DB Systems, Security, DevOps, Backup, DR and modern development methodologies
4yrs
Experience designing and implementing common shared services across enterprise applications
4yrs
Strong analytical skills and ability to resolve complex business/IT problems
4yrs
Microsoft Windows Server System Administrator experience
4yrs
GenTax architecture and application maintenance experience
4yrs
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
Highly desired
Skills
* AWS
* AWS cloud
Work Location
Hybrid (Little Rock, Arkansas, Arkansas, United States)
