JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for working with highly functional development team automating service deployments; optimizing system performance; integrating with enterprise authentication services; establishing/improving system monitoring; maintaining established security protocols; provide customers technical support. The Cloud Engineer will be integrated with an agile environment participating with scrums and other meetings.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct full range of cloud engineering, administrative and IT operational tasks to support the environments to meet business needs
• Build and support AWS infrastructure resources using CloudFormation and Code Pipeline (GitLab & Terraform)
• Create and manage IAM users, and access policies
• Integrate applications and services in AWS cloud environment
• Implement and support tools and automation for AWS infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, diagnostics, and scaling
• Utilize and maintain Python automation scripts
• Use CloudWatch metrics to monitor the health and utilization of AWS resources and applications
• Develop, document, and perform approved system maintenance plans

Education/Experience:

• 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
• 5 years IT experience, preferably system administration of large enterprise networks (Windows, Linux platforms)

Required Skills:

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology
• Familiarity with DevOps development processes and GitLab Continuous Integration tool
• Strong understanding of RHEL/CentOS Linux distributions
• Knowledge of Bash and Python scripting languages
• Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Excellent attention to detail
• Team player who works well with customers and colleagues
• Work effectively both independently and in a team environment

Desired Skills:

• Understanding of cloud APIs
• Familiarity with the AWS/CLI
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (IaC); preferably Terraform

Required Certifications:

• DoD 8140/8570 IAT III compliance

Location: On Customer Site
US Citizenship Required

What you will get:

• Joining a team of technology experts and partners in the same mission 
• A high-growth environment with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as the company grows
• Owner and Leadership team that come from technical backgrounds so they understand the day-to-day challenges of the technical consulting world and can offer real-life solutions and guidance 
• Highly competitive benefits package that shows we want to hire the very best