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Cloud Engineer

Job Details

Kearneysville, WV
Memphis, TN; Lanham, MD; Ogden, UT

Description

Hiring in the following locations: MD, TN, UT, and WV

Essential Functions

• Provide Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for deployments, updates, and maintenance of cloud environments to include but not limited to: Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation, and others.

• Provide on-boarding and migrations of new and current Projects/Applications in the cloud, cloud to cloud, or cloud to on-prem

• Manage the IPV6 current state and implementation with multi-cloud deployments.

• Provide engineering support within multiple cloud service providers to meet current and future initiatives, business requirements and needs, as well as future enhancements, directives, and goals.

• Utilize and follow guidelines regarding Change Management Processes.

• Support the Government’s efforts related to its cloud requirements as follows:

• Enhance, optimize, administer, support, and analyze cloud hosting infrastructures, leveraging virtualization, automation, and orchestration technologies.

• Contribute to the cloud architectural design, analysis, migration, and implementation.

• Maintain information technology infrastructure both remotely and onsite when needed.

• Provide the requisite expertise to facilitate the proper management of a multi-cloud environment (e.g., Public, Private, or Hybrid Cloud) that provides services such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS).

• Engage and support Operation & Maintenance activities as an escalation point for resolving major incidents or problem analysis.

• Assist the Government in building and creating a detailed plan for maintenance of the Concept of Operations (CONOPS). The CONOPS should be as fully automated as is reasonable, practical, and consistent with industry leading practices.

• Modify and maintain as needed a CONOPS that includes:

• Creation of manual and/or automated backup scripts, enabling both partial and/or complete recovery of affected environments.

• Creation of detailed procedure outlining the proper sequences to perform the shutdown and restoration processes.

• Contractor shall maintain and improve current network security posture by utilizing industry leading practices and methodologies.

• Ensuring upgrade of current versions of supported software as they become available.

• Scheduling downtime to minimize user impact.

Qualifications

Education

• Associate’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or related field.

Certifications

• ASWS Certified solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, VoIP, Wireless or Google Professional Cloud Architect or similar required.

Experience

• Minimum of five years of experience in cloud architecture, design, and implementation.

• Proven expertise in managing and employing cloud-based systems across public, private, and hybrid environments.

• Strong understanding of virtualization technologies, containers (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Ansible.

• Experience with Cloud security, Cost optimization, and high availability architectures.

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