Systems Engineer SME

Responsibilities

• Providing technical leadership and hands-on development and implementation of commercial cloud solution architectures that modernize the way our customers architect, deploy, and use cloud technology, focusing on security, scalability, and resiliency
• Planning, designing, and managing the migration, re-platforming, integration, implementation and operation of our client's complex cloud environments enabling managed shared services
• Ensuring commercial cloud service offerings (CSO) adhere to DoD Cloud Computing policy/guidelines
• Providing specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection, cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements
• Maintaining technical expertise relevant industry standards and in cloud computing and virtualization technologies such as cloud service provider architecture, design, and configuration; cloud deployment models including public, community, private, and hybrid; cloud service delivery models including infrastructure-, platform-, and software-as-a-service; automation; hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networks; virtual infrastructure management; self-provisioning; and scaling
• Participating with senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives
• Recommending/making decisions on administrative or project work matters and ensuring effective achievement of program, project, or organizational objectives

Requirements

• Ten (10) years or more experience
• Active DoD Secret Clearance
• IAT Level III certifications (CASP+ CE, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), GCED, GCIH)
• Computing Environment (CE) certification or certificate for the technical area of responsibility for Cloud or virtualization (e.g., Azure, AWS, oracle, IBM, etc.) with a preference in Azure
• In-depth understanding of Redhat Enterprise Linux operating system and command line administration
• Strong understanding of Terraform, Terraform state management, and Cloud Formation
• Experience implementing environment workflows for development, staging and projection environments
• Strong understanding of CI/CD automation pipelines using gitlab-ci
• Ability to utilize a variety of tools like Git ,YML, and AWS security capabilities (WAF, GuardDuty, Security Groups, IAM, etc.)
• General knowledge of AWS EC2, S3, System Manager, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Lambda, IAM
• Experience using Gitlab and Gitlab-runners
• Experience creating, managing and updating gitlab-ci pipelines
• Experience working with docker & podman
• Strong understanding of Container networking
• Experience working in a team environment with the ability to mentor junior team members
• Proactively identify and resolve operational, tooling and process inefficiencies

Qualifications

• MA/MS
• Fifteen (15) or more years of experience
• DoD TS/SCI clearance
• AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certification
• ITIL V4 Foundations Certification
• Experience with F5 Big-IP devices specifically the LTM and ASM modules
• Experience with AWS networking and AWS Transit Gateway
• Familiarty with AWS Site-to-Site Connections
• Knowledge of Route53 DNS Target salary range $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.