Cloud Engineer

About the role

The Leidos Air Team team has an opening for an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to work on a cloud development and deployment team. The team is involved in the deployment and maintenance of multiple operational cloud deployed software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with teams in the design and implementation of AWS system architectures to include operational status and security of government systems (ATO).
• Reviews and provides input to system requirements based on cyber security posture.
• Compiles industry best practices and lessons learned into future iterations and new designs.
• Provides architectural analysis of cloud configurations and connections.
• Supports the Engineering Review Board, evaluating artifacts for architectural compliance.
• Resolves architecture implementation issues during integration and test.
• Provides support directly or through team management, including triaging system outages and ticket support resolution.
• Advises and assists teams to deploy and configure collection services and tools with 99.9% up-time.
• Works with team members to move data to the appropriate data stores and monitors dashboard metrics including costs, computational utilization and other future business needs.
• Validates and manages government systems changes; create, run and validate end-to-end testing.

Qualifications

• Must possess and maintain a TS/SCI Security Clearance with ability to obtain Poly CID.
• Requires BS degree and 5+ years’ experience consulting, designing and implementing distributed solutions and 3+ years’ experience with cloud-based solutions (Cloud, SOA, Web-Services) including virtualization environment, network and operating system experience OR 4 years of additional experience in lieu of degree.
• Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, diagrams, etc.).
• Familiar with team collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, RocketChat).
• Experience in AWS/Cloud technologies.
• Understanding of code baseline management.
• Utilization of the following: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Python, Gitlab, CloudFormation, Zabbix, HPFortify, ACAS, PostgreSQL, Scrum, Kanban, Terraform.
• Knowledge of Systems, Architectural, SW Development and SW Sustainment Practices.
• Proactive self-starter demonstrates a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrates ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
• Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work, follow tasks to their logical conclusion and ensure everything has been correctly satisfied to standard. Great attention to detail.
• Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently with team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context.