Cloud Engineer

About the role

Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Cloud Engineer on a 10-year contract providing User Facing and Data Center Services supporting an Intelligence Community customer. All personnel on the team will collaborate to support innovative design, engineering, procurement, implementation, operations, sustainment, and disposal of user-facing and data center information technology (IT) services on multiple networks and security domains, at multiple locations worldwide, to support the IC mission.

Responsibilities

• Works with A&A Team to maintain security requirements for operation of systems.
• Maintains and improves existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc.).
• Produces detailed documentation.
• Maintains system in AWS environment using EC2, S3, Load Balancer, and RDS.
• Automates and optimizes service deployments.
• Delivers a full-stack web application to production; identifies and resolves operational issues.
• Actively participates in technical requirements-gathering process (e.g., meetings with customers).
• Executes design and implementation of application features independently with minimal oversight.
• Refactors legacy application code for improved reliability and maintainability.
• Mentors junior developers.
• Writes and reads unit tests; understands code-quality analysis concepts.
• Writes and debugs JavaScript, TypeScript, or closely-related language.
• Develops applications backed by a relational database; understands RDB design concepts.

Requirements

• 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.
• 8+ years of IT experience.
• Clearance: TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Poly.
• Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements including one of the following certifications: Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA.

Skills

• Required: Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services; strong troubleshooting skills; experience automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl; familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology; familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools (GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus); extensive TypeScript or JavaScript background; Angular frontend framework; UI/UX design; microservice-based backend architecture; integrating with COTS/FOSS software REST APIs; supporting a full-stack application in a PaaS environment; CI/CD pipeline implementation, ideally with GitLab; creating and deploying containerized applications, ideally with Docker; designing/implementing container orchestration with Kubernetes.
• Desired: Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI; experience with one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, or Java); experience with Go programming language; familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development; database experience with a Postgres backend; strong communication skills.