Cloud Engineer – Active DoD Secret Clearance Required

Key responsibilities

• Engineer, manage, and support cloud infrastructure products and stacks in Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.
• Understand and apply cloud infrastructure concepts for compute, network, and storage components.
• Understand, manage, and optimize application workloads running in Azure and AWS.
• Partner with enterprise IT teams to integrate cloud infrastructure and network environments with corporate data center and on-premises infrastructure.
• Use model-based systems engineering (MBSE) tools such as Cameo (or equivalent) to understand and refine requirements, and create model designs using industry-standard languages (for example, UML, SysML, AUTOSAR, DoDAF, MODAF, UPDM).
• Validate functionality early in the development lifecycle and automate the delivery of highly structured cloud services.
• Prototype, simulate, and execute designs for early validation and feedback.
• Design standardized and reusable cloud services that enable development and business teams to meet targets for speed, resilience, performance, repeatability, and security.
• Engineer, implement, and continuously improve the quality of these standardized cloud services.
• Provide approved templates, images, and reusable artifacts so customers can easily consume standardized cloud services.
• Ensure all services and enablement artifacts remain available, secure, and continuously improved throughout their lifecycle, and resolve any service issues affecting customers.
• Support and complete operational support requests, including communicating effort estimates and status updates to the cloud leadership team.
• Communicate clearly through diagrams, whiteboarding sessions, and presentations to senior leadership, using strong written and oral communication skills in English.

Required skills and knowledge

• Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platforms, including AWS, Azure, SoftLayer, OpenStack, or similar.
• Experience with platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings.
• Experience with Cross Domain Solutions (CDS).
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools (examples include Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, or similar).
• IASE Level II certification (must be current).
• Native or bilingual proficiency in English (spoken and written).

Desired/Nice-to-have skills

• Experience managing traditional enterprise platforms for compute, network, and storage.
• Familiarity with Mission Landing Zones (MLZ).
• Basic understanding of application development using GitHub or Bitbucket.
• Basic understanding of containers and container orchestration platforms such as Docker, rkt, Mesos, or Kubernetes.
• Experience managing traditional enterprise application runtimes, integration middleware, and relational databases.
• Experience with Cameo or other model-based systems engineering (MBSE) tools.