Mid-level Cloud Engineer
ECS
- Fairfax, VA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- This position is primarily responsible for the administration and coordination of Cloud activities that are inherent with a dynamic and innovative initiative. Routine duties:
- Work within the project team to design, build, implement, and maintain multi-component, cloud-based and hybrid solutions which meet customer and security requirements.
- Identify enterprise and customer-specific issues and develop and implement innovative solutions.
- Architect, design, implement, and maintain Cloud solutions and new capabilities in AWS and/or Azure.
- Leverage a variety of automation, instance, and/or container, orchestration, security, and native/non-native Cloud services for large DoD program(s).
- Assist in partner network integration, testing, and monitoring.
- Install, configure, maintain, update, manage, and refine information systems.
- Ensure system components maintain compliance with DoD requirements.
- Conduct functional, interoperability, and security testing.
- Analyze system performance for potential security problems.
- Participate in technical incident response and security assessment activities.
- Provide knowledge transfer to team members and clients as needed.
- Coordinate and/or provide support for all enclave applications and operations.
- US citizen required per contract.
- Active DoD Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance.
- Local resource with the ability to work in a hybrid remote / onsite capacity in Fairfax, Virginia (1 - 3 business days onsite, at the Project Manger's direction).
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Networking, Computer Security, or other Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) discipline.
- DoD 8570 Compliant, minimum IAT Level II (e.g., CompTIA Security+ or higher); current, or achieved within 60 calendar days of employment.
- 3+ years of experience designing, engineering, and deploying infrastructure systems and Services within cloud environments.
- ONE OR BOTH:
- (Preferred) 3+ years of experience and proficiency working with Amazon Web Services' cloud services and technologies including, but not limited to: EC2, Storage concepts (S3, RDS, EBS), EKS, VPC, and Security Groups / IAM.
- 3+ years of experience and proficiency working with Azure and technologies including, but not limited to: Virtual Machines, Storage accounts, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Azure Networking, and IAM.
- Proficiency in developing, engineering, and deploying Docker and Kubernetes-based containerized solutions.
- Proficiency in supporting Windows and Linux operating systems.
- Proficiency in supporting Microsoft Active Directory/AD FS.
- Proficiency with Cloud networking and troubleshooting (e.g., IP networking, VPNs, DNS, and load balancing).
- Solid understanding of Firewalls, NAT, SSL/TLS, etc.
- Experience in one or more automation languages (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Cloud Formation, BASH, PowerShell).
- Experience with applying STIGs for Windows and Linux endpoints, using the STIG Viewer for reporting.
- Ability to travel both CONUS and OCONUS throughout the duration of the effort (<10%).
- Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing.
- Politically savvy to confront difficult problems in a positive and creative way.
- Demonstrated ability to expertly balance multiple, competing priorities and execute accordingly.
- A motivated, self-starter who enthusiastically tackles challenging operational problems and can quickly grasp and implement creative solutions.
- Preference shown to candidates with:
- Active DoD Top Secret security clearance.
- Hands-on AWS experience (preferred).
- Experience with DevSecOps frameworks.
- Experience using big data tools (cloud or on-prem).
- Infrastructure as Code experience (Ansible, Chef, Terraform, Puppet).
- Experience working with DoD networks, or similar organizations and/or customers / performers.
- AWS certification(s): AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate/Professional preferred.
- Azure certification(s): AZ-103/104 and/or AZ-304/305 highly desired.
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
- Hands-on experience working with Atlassian's Jira and Confluence.