Cloud Engineer

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