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Based in the DC metropolitan area, TechSur specializes in advanced cloud services, modernization for both IT structures and applications, leveraging Agile development, and Data Analytics. Since we were formed in August of 2016, we have supported multiple impactful and exciting government programs.\n TechSur is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer with deep Amazon Web Services expertise to design, build, and operate a federal customer's AWS cloud foundation. You will turn a cloud-agnostic enterprise architecture into a secure, well-governed AWS environment: multi-account landing zones, hub-and-spoke networking, and federated identity.\nOnce the foundation is in place, you will keep it running at production service levels. 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