Expert Cloud Engineer

• ACTIVE TS/SCI WITH FULL SCOPE POLY REQUIRED***

Our client supports and secures some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work has meaning and impact on the world around us, but also on us, and that’s important.

Our client creates a family environment. You make it your own by embracing autonomy, seizing opportunity, and being trusted to deliver your best every day. And their work depends on a Cloud Engineer joining our team to support Government activities at McLean, VA.

Role As a Cloud Engineer supporting the customer, you will be trusted to design a cloud architecture and provide issue resolution to systems and services hosted on cloud resources. In this role, a typical day will include:

• Evaluating systems and making recommendations to increase availability and efficiency.
• Creating users and groups using AWS security groups and IAM
• Creating and configuring virtual private clouds (VPCs), public and private subnets, auto scaling groups, and configuring Elastic load balancers (ELB)
• Providing recommendations supporting migration of systems to hybrid or cloud based solutions.
• Providing cloud based web and database configuration, migration and implementation of existing systems.
• Gathering requirements, designing and migrating systems to the cloud.
• Developing and executing cloud formation scripts and coding, managing S3 storage, and EC2 instances

Requirements REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.
• Minimum of 11 years related experience.

Technical Skills

• Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS security, network, compute and storage solutions
• Elastic load balancers (ELB)
• Cloud automation technology (such as Packer, Terraform, Puppet, Jenkins, Jira, and Github)
• Multi-node clustering experience using Linux, CentOS, or other UNIX based platforms

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience creating and configuring virtual private clouds (VPCs); creating public and private subnets; creating auto scaling groups; configuring Elastic load balancers (ELB)
• Creating users and groups using AWS security groups and IAM; creating and managing EC2 instances; developing and executing cloud formation scripts; creating and managing elastic bulk storage; creating and managing S3 storage; creating and managing CloudTrail logs
• DevOps practices and cloud automation technology such as Packer, Terraform, puppet, Jenkins, Jira, and Github
• Evaluating systems and making recommendations to increase availability and efficiency.

Desired Skills

• AWS certifications, experience transitioning legacy physical or VMware workloads to Amazon Web Services
• Microsoft Windows system engineering and administration
• Linux system engineering and administration; enterprise Java development; Java, REST Queries and Services, SQL databases, NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with IBM Domino and Lotus Notes.

Preferred Qualifications Amazon Web Services Certification, enterprise Java development; Java, REST Queries and Services, SQL databases, NoSQL databases

What Our Client Can Offer You

• Alignment to a mission-critical role that directly impacts the customer’s ability to effectively execute its mission.
• Direct engagement with contractor leadership that centers upon career development/mobility, enhanced performance evaluation, and corporate information sharing & networking opportunities.
• Placement on a dynamic team of talented professionals that organically fosters an environment of innovation, collaboration, and trust.