AWS SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, AND JOB REQUIREMENTS

Published: May 19, 2025 - The AWS demonstrates proficiency in deploying scalable applications using Amazon Web Services, ensuring optimal performance and high availability. This position possesses experience in configuring cloud infrastructure with services like EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda to support diverse project requirements. This role applies best practices in cloud security and cost management to maintain efficient and secure cloud environments.

Essential Hard and Soft Skills for a Standout AWS Resume
  • Security assessment
  • Server configuration
  • Cloud monitoring
  • Infrastructure automation
  • AWS migration
  • IaC scripting
  • Network management
  • Data analysis
  • Regulatory compliance
  • AWS configuration
  • Technical leadership
  • Requirements analysis
  • Solution presentation
  • Client communication
  • Task management
  • Project execution
  • Team collaboration
  • Technology learning
  • Process improvement
  • Customer service

Summary of AWS Knowledge and Qualifications on Resume

1. BS in Computer Science with 5 years of Experience

  • Expert programming and technical design capabilities
  • Experience in taking ownership of the technical customer expectations across multiple projects for that customer.
  • Ability to break down the complexity of the technical problem and provide solutions
  • Excellent technical presentation skills (documentation, presentations, discussions)
  • Experience in translating abstract functionality to architecture and design documents by understanding the client's business
  • Strong verbal and written communication and ability to map conversations between business and technology.
  • Competence in defining the client's requirements into a task-based plan as an input to proper estimation
  • Experience in taking the project to production and assisting in performance tuning as per the client's scenarios.
  • Team mentoring in each of the architecture/design decisions being taken
  • Experience in mapping business requirements to a POC in a short period of time and transferring the knowledge to the development team
  • Understanding a large current code base and putting down best practices to work on it

2. BA in Information Systems with 4 years of Experience

  • Experience using Oracle ADF and design, development and deployment of ADF applications
  • Experience in programming/developing rich client web applications using J2EE specs including Java, JSF, EJB, Oracle ADF Framework
  • Experience and understanding of Infrastructure as Code, Automation, and Orchestration
  • Experience in AWS implementation to include core AWS resources (VPC, EC2, S3 etc.) and advanced AWS resources (lambda, cloud front).
  • Experience in setting up AWS Cognito Identity and Access management tool and ADFS and providing access to integrate applications via API Gateway.
  • Strong CLI and API technology use experience (e.g. PowerShell, Python, YAML or JSON)
  • Knowledge and experience in building APIs within AWS and API Transit Gateway
  • Experience with Agile methodologies and tools. 
  • Experience with Integration & Continuous Deployment tools and processes using Jenkins, GitHub and Jira tools.
  • Experience with Oracle Business Process Management, service bus and Oracle SOA Suite
  • Experience using Oracle SOA Suite to develop transformers and transporters
  • Familiarity with MicroServices architecture, and working experience
  • Strong experience with Oracle SQL, distributed technologies, Frameworks and Application servers
  • Experience with all phases of a project lifecycle development process (analysis, design, code, test, migrate)
  • Ability to provide production and maintenance support and prior government consulting experience.

3. BS in Software Engineering with 5 years of Experience

  • Strong Python, JavaScript, or Java skills (or other related languages)
  • Knowledge of AWS services and ETL process
  • Extensive experience in Application migrations to Cloud with Cloud Native Patterns and providing support for Applications running in Cloud
  • Experience in troubleshooting IAM Policies, Resource permissions issues during migrations of Applications
  • Experience working with AWS Services Technologies EC2, ALB/ELB, Elastic BeanStalk, ACM, RDS, S3, LAMBDA, API Gateway, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, Cloudwatch, ElastiCache, Docker and Application Runtimes
  • Experience in building with Automation tools such as Jenkins, Nexus, Maven, and JUnit, as well as knowledge with CI/CD pipelines -- GitHub, Maven, Jenkins
  • Experience deploying and working with various relational or NoSQL databases
  • Knowledge & demonstrated experience in Agile methodologies and practices
  • Full stack development knowledge utilizing frontend frameworks such as Angular or React and web frameworks such as Django, Flask or Express.
  • Experience in Python or a similar scripting language for automation
  • Experience working with core AWS services.
  • Experience with ETL, Data Modeling, and Data Architecture.
  • Experience or familiarity with newer AWS data and analytics tools such as AWS Lake Formation, SageMaker
  • Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment and technologies
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

4. BS in Cybersecurity with 6 years of Experience

  • Experience with health IT, including technology analysis and assessment, design definition, development of systems specifications, systems analysis, and systems architecture.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.
  • Understanding of cloud computing principles and knowledge of AWS environment and terminologies.
  • Experience in software development, scripting, and cloud computing.
  • Ability to work well within teams and with senior engineers.
  • Experience with MIP Cloud Transition Team requires beginner/intermediate-level cloud practitioners and experienced analysts to support preparing, utilizing & optimizing AWS GovCloud for migration of on-premises data center.
  • Experience with AWS-native services/resource utilization, large-scale data migration from on-prem to AWS, backup restoration into AWS via Veeam or AltaVault, and/or AWS Database Migration Service (DMS).
  • Knowledge of AWS services and resources, secure cloud computing principles via cloud-native or other security approaches, and transition/cutover operations.
  • Knowledge of requirements gathering for an enterprise-scale project involving multiple solutions

5. BA in Business Administration with 4 years of Experience

  • Experience designing and deploying large-scale distributed environments within commercial cloud environments (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM)
  • Experience deploying containerized solutions utilizing container technologies (e.g. Docker) and orchestration frameworks (e.g. Kubernetes)
  • Experience writing software or scripts in one of the following programming languages (C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, PowerShell, C++, Scala).
  • Experience making recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms and application infrastructure with regard to cloud technologies
  • Effective presentation skills and the ability to independently meet with clients. 
  • Superior communications skills in both verbal and written form are a must
  • Experience deploying data processing systems with one or more technologies (Hadoop, EMR, Kafka, HBase, Redis, MongoDB, Spark, Redshift)
  • Ability to quickly learn, understand, and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies and solutions in the cloud/IT technology space.

6. BS in Computer Engineering with 6 years of Experience

  • Experience with .Net applications development
  • Experience with the following technologies
  • Experience with C#, XAML, JavaScript, HTML, XML, SQL
  • Experience with ASP.NET MVC, WCF, Web Services, Web API, JQuery, CSS, Angular
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SQL Server
  • Experience with Windows Forms (WinForms), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
  • Experience with BitBucket / Bamboo / VSTS
  • Ability to create self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
  • Proficient in current development and source code management tools
  • Good Experience with Continuous Integration and hands-on experience
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies
  • Skills include Python and AWS

7. BS in Data Science with 5 year of Experience

  • Experience on Amazon EMR, preferably with Spark (PySpark, Scala)
  • Strong troubleshooting/admin experience with EMR-specific infrastructure (CloudFormation) code, deployment via AWS CLI, and bootstrap actions.
  • Ability to implement transient infrastructure (e.g. transient EMR clusters) that leverages decoupled storage (S3) and compute. 
  • Ability to implement these using reproducible automated mechanisms like AWS CLI scripts, CloudFormation templates, and custom code leveraging AWS SDKs.
  • Strong experience on one or more MPP Data Warehouse Platforms Amazon EMR (incl. Presto), Amazon Athena, AWS RedShift, PostgreSQL, Teradata or similar
  • Knowledge and hands-on development experience in building Distributed Big Data Solutions including ingestion, caching, processing, consumption, logging & monitoring.
  • Strong Development Experience on at least one or more event-driven streaming platforms, Kinesis, Firehose, Kafka, Spark Streaming, or Apache Flink.
  • Strong Data Orchestration experience using one or more of these tools including AWS Step Functions, Lambda, AWS Data Pipeline, AWS Glue orchestration, Apache Airflow, Luigi or related
  • Strong understanding and experience with Cloud Storage infrastructure, and operationalizing AWS-based storage services & solutions S3 or related
  • Strong technical communication skills and ability to engage a variety of business and technical audiences, explaining features, metrics of Big Data technologies based on experience with previous solutions
  • Strong Understanding of at least one Cluster Manager (YARN, Hive, Kubernates, Pig, etc).
  • Strong Data Cataloging experience, using AWS Glue or Other Strong Development Experience on at least one NoSQL OR Document databases

8. BA in Digital Media with 6 years of Experience

  • Experience on at least one or More Ingestion Integration tools Like Apache NIFI or Streamset or related
  • Strong Development Experience on at least one Caching Tool like Amazon Elasticache (with Redis or Memcached) or Lucene
  • Strong Understanding and experience in Big Data Audit Logging and Monitoring solutions like AWS CloudTrail and CloudWatch.
  • Experience with AWS Solutions implementation, professional services experience, Data Analytics space.
  • Experience in exploring data and extracting valuable insights.
  • Proficiency in SQL, across a number of dialects (we commonly write MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift, SQL Server, and Oracle).
  • Exposure to developer tools/workflow (e.g., git/github, *nix, SSH)
  • Experience optimizing database/query performance.
  • Experience with AWS ecosystem (EC2, S3, RDS, Redshift).
  • Experience with business intelligence tools with a physical model (e.g., MicroStrategy, Business Objects, Cognos).Experience with data warehousing.
  • Exposure to NoSQL-based, SQL-like technologies (e.g., Hive, Pig, Spark SQL/Shark, Impala, BigQuery)

9. BS in Network Engineering with 5 years of Experience

  • Experience in the design and implementation of microservices architecture and RESTful web services
  • Experience in developing dynamic interactive web application user interfaces using advanced JavaScript frameworks and JSON-supported technologies
  • Experience of utilizing progressive design patterns that make use of serverless technologies, dynamic scaling, event models, cost optimizations and platform services
  • Experience with the lift and shift of an existing on-premises application to AWS
  • Experience of designing with appropriate AWS services like API Gateway/Lambda and Elastic Beanstalk
  • Experience with AWS databases (RDS, Aurora and PostgreSQL)
  • Experience in migration of document storage to AWS S3
  • Experience in network integration and Cloud connectivity of public and private environments
  • Experience in computing and storage management and cost control mechanisms
  • Knowledge of cloud reference architectures and AWS best practices
  • Experience with Active/Directory/SSO and other authentication mechanisms such as login.gov
  • Strong experience in detailed technical analysis and preparation of estimates
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a government public clearance.
  • Knowledge of and experience with Federal security regulations, standards, and processes, including FISMA, FIPS, NIST, and FedRAMP
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