AWS Developer

ALTA IT has a Long-Term Contract position open for an AWS Developer.

Location: Washington DC 20006 - Remote with one day a week onsite

Requirements:

• U.S Citizenship is required per Federal Government Sector.
• Ability to pass Federal background check is required for Level 4 Public Trust Clearance.

Work Experience:

• This position will help support the development of an application utilizing AWS Serverless and cloud services.
• Working experience with Agile development methodology and roles along with experience utilizing CI/CD for building and deploying cloud applications with the Python language for backend services and Angular front-end development is important for this role.
• Candidate must have expert knowledge (i.e., demonstrates comprehensive understanding and is viewed as a subject matter expert in the following areas: cloud technology platforms (especially AWS), programming, cloud security/recovery, cloud tools/services, DevOps and database management).
• Experience working as a developer writing Python code along with the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) required to deploy with AWS CDK.
• Experience modeling business processes in AWS Step Functions.
• Experience developing container-based applications utilizing REST APIs for web-based applications written with either Angular or React in Typescript.
• Experience utilizing AWS CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail for logging events and audit messages, for operating in a highly regulated environment.
• Additionally, candidate must be able to work effectively with staff and have experience working as part of an Agile team.
• The candidate will be responsible for remediation and unit testing of code when issues arise as part of the CI/CD, application development and user deployment process.
• The candidate should be able to contribute to the design of the code they will be responsible for implementing along with the required documentation.

Technical Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or related field and six years of experience.
• Python
• AWS Lambda
• AWS Step Functions, AWS CDK
• GIT
• Docker
• CloudTrail
• CloudWatch
• DynamoDB
• Angular Web UI
• AWS API Gateway and AWS Load Balancer
• AWS S3
• Application Containers hosted with AWS Fargate
• Typescript
• Athena
• Glue
• Experience working in AWS GovCloud