Senior Azure/AWS Cloud Engineer (5539)

SMX is actively searching for a dynamic and adept Senior Azure/AWS Cloud Engineer to support our government client in Huntsville, AL. This role emphasizes operational excellence, championed by a commitment to quality, articulate communication, client success, and measurable results.

Responsibilities

• Experience working in an Agile IT environment establishing a cloud-based technology in a government-provided hybrid cloud environment with security, performance, operability, and scale for customers.
• Support and facilitate the customer cloud strategy to utilize DoD-approved cloud service providers to provide information technology services and capabilities, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Data as a Service (DaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Cloud Service Offerings (CSOs) within the Agency-supported cloud architecture.
• Define and engineer solution capabilities that satisfy customer business drivers and requirements.
• Act as a trusted advisor and Cloud SME for technical decisions during client engagements. Develop courses of action using innovative and cloud best practices.
• Perform architecture, design, and requirements analysis using systems engineering, focusing on cloud-native services and optimizing the customer landscape through adoption of these services.
• Develop and utilize deployment and process automation capabilities (scripts, applications, platforms, cloud-native services, APIs) to ensure processes are defined, repeatable, scalable, and able to be published for wider utilization; may include capabilities such as Ansible, PowerShell, Bash, Python, etc.
• Utilize DevSecOps capabilities using IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) to operate and sustain a fully integrated DevSecOps environment supporting development, test, and deployment of infrastructure and applications using CI/CD pipelines.
• Take ownership of issues and act with a high sense of urgency when required, providing direct support to customers, advanced technical support, troubleshooting direction, and complex problem resolution.
• Produce clear and concise documentation including program-level, design artifacts, as-built documents, and user-level documentation to fully capture technical baselines and operational capabilities to guide operations and activities associated with enterprise-scale cloud environments.

Requirements

• Clearance Required: Secret
• Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of experience providing cloud-related support (4 additional years of experience may be substituted for the degree requirement).
• Cloud subject matter expertise in Microsoft Azure with additional experience in AWS.
• Must have a DoD 8570/8140 aligned certification such as CompTIA Security+.
• Delivery experience and working knowledge utilizing key Department of Defense guidance and governance including DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide, Risk Management Framework (RMF), and Secure Cloud Computing Architecture (SCCA).
• Skills in delivery areas of Cloud, IT Infrastructure, Architecture, and Security as well as hands-on core system administration skills in Linux or Windows.
• Problem determination skills from design issues through detail-level inspection to determine root causes of issues.
• Core System Administration skills in Linux or Windows with demonstrated skills in Security, Active Directory, ACAS, Identity and Access Management, Zero Trust, and STIG remediation experience.
• Extensive knowledge of, and hands-on experience with, DoD Enterprise networks and understanding how those solutions translate to a cloud environment.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using appropriate tooling.
• Understanding of Kubernetes (EKS), ECS, and Docker container fundamentals.
• Proficient command of CI/CD tools (Terraform, Ansible, Git, Jenkins, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodePipeline, etc.) with an understanding of GitOps methodologies and best practices in Terraform.
• Candidates MUST reside within 70 miles of Redstone Arsenal.

Qualifications

• Possess cloud-related certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, Developer, etc.

Pay

The proposed salary for this position is $100,000 USD - $155,000 USD.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Paid leave
• Retirement benefits
• Competitive mix of compensation, learning & development opportunities