Sr. Cloud Engineer (Clearance Needed)

Main Responsibilities

• Monitor and manage security compliance, remediations and patch management for both classified and unclassified environments.
• Evaluate customer issues and make educated decisions on technologies, tools and the overall delivery strategy.
• Evaluate and implement proof of concept solutions that fits the need of the platform and client requirements.
• Leverage best practices to deploy and monitor deployments, facilitate management oversight, and put in place detection, incident-response, and mitigation practices to minimize and rapidly resolve discovered anomalies.
• Periodically review and evaluate project progress and planned goals to anticipate development of new solutions, architecture designs, configuration-management practices, business intelligence, and technical documentation.
• Participate in status meetings on progress, priorities, issues, performance issues, and future work.
• Thrive in a hybrid environment (split between on-site and remote), able to be on-site at 3-4 days as required to support customer and mission requirements.
• Successfully communicate to customers, program managers, industry partners, and Government representatives.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science or equivalent experience.
• Must have an existing and active Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI.
• Experience in the administration of Linux (Patch, STIG, configure, and troubleshoot).
• Expertise in DevOps, Gitlab, Configuration Management, Cloud Infrastructure, Automation, scripting experience with PowerShell and Python.
• Experience building infrastructure as code (IAC) using Terraform.
• Experience with container orchestration with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Hands-on experience implementing AWS components such as, but not limited to: Lambda, IAM, Load Balancers, RDS, CloudFormation, S3, EC2, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SageMaker, Bedrock.
• Experience enforcing cloud security practices including configuring encryption, implementing VPC endpoint policies, bucket policies, and locking down security groups.
• Strong knowledge of IP Networking including VPCs, VPNs, VRF, DNS, load-balancing, and firewalls.
• Demonstrated, hands-on technical experience in Network and Transport protocols, tools, and techniques.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and or Azure/cloud-based technologies with a desire to learn more.
• At least 10 years of experience with customer-facing cloud projects (AWS and/or Azure).
• Highly technical and analytical possessing 7+ years of IT platform implementation experience.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• DOD 8570-01M certification: IAM Level I or better (e.g., Security+).
• Experience working within a classified cloud environment.
• AWS Certified Solution Architecture/Developer/SysOPS or AWS Certified Solutions Architect -Professional.
• Experience in the administration of Red Hat Servers (Patch, STIG, configure, and troubleshoot).

Desired Skills & Experience

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product and technical challenges.
• Advanced understanding of DevOps Continuous Integration/CD.
• Experience in communicating and demonstrating the value of technical solutions to a variety of stakeholders to address complex and competing drivers in complex technical environments.
• Deep understanding of Cloud-based data management and security.
• ITIL v3 Foundations.