Title: Cloud Engineer
Location: Springfield, VA
Eligibility/Clearance: This position requires an active TS/SCI clearance
Job Description:
The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for working with highly
functional development team automating service deployments; optimizing
system performance; integrating with enterprise authentication services;
establishing/improving system monitoring; maintaining established
security protocols; provide customers technical support. The Cloud
Engineer will be integrated with an agile environment participating with
scrums and other meetings.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
•Maintain security requirements for operation of systems
•Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling,
support new services, optimize for cost
efficiencies/authentication/search, etc)
•Produce detailed documentation
•Maintain System in AWS environment using EC2, S3, Load Balancer, RDS,
and IAM
•Manage and Maintain AWS WorkSpaces
•Automate and optimize service deployments
•Delivering a full-stack web application to production; identifying and
resolving operational issues in same
•Actively participating in technical requirements-gathering process
(i.e. meetings with customers)
•Executing design and implementation of application features,
independently / unassisted, with minimal oversight
•Writing and reading unit tests; understanding code-quality analysis
concepts
•Writing and debugging Javascript, Typescript, or closely-related
language
•Developing applications backed by a relational database; understanding
RDB design concepts
Education/Experience:
•Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a
related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of
education, technical training, or work/military experience
•5+ years IT experience
-TS/SCI clearance preferred, Top Secret minimum
•Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements including one of the following:
Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA
Required Skills:
•Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services
•Strong Troubleshooting skills at the Tier 1-3 level
•Angular frontend framework; UI/UX design
•Microservice-based backend architecture; integrating with COTS/FOSS
software REST APIs
•CI/CD pipeline implementation, ideally with GitLab
•Strong Knowledge of Active Directory
•Windows/Linux/Ubuntu/CentOS Administration experience
•Desktop support
•Domain/System Administrator experience
•Be a team collaborator
•Have or able to receive a TS/SCI with CI Poly
Desired Skills:
•Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI
•Experience working with one or more programming languages (e.g. Python,
Ruby, or Java)
•Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development
•Database experience with a Postgres backend
•Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash,
PowerShell, or Perl
•Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous
Integration tools: GitLab, GitLab Pages, and Nexus
•Knowledge of Confluence and Jira
•Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology
•Strong written and verbal communication skills
•Analytical and problem solving skills
Desired Certifications:
•AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
•Agile/SAFe