Job Summary
We are seeking a Cloud Engineer to support a newly awarded, 10 year contract in Springfield, VA. This position requires a TS/SCI clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI polygraph. 

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:

• Build and Maintain Platform as a Service Offering using RedHat OpenShift
• Work with A&A Team to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc)
• Produce detailed documentation
• Maintain System in AWS environment using EC2, S3, ELB, and RDS
• Maintain System in a VMware vSphere environment, using NSX, and NetApp StorageGRID
• Automate and optimize service deployments

Required Skills:

• Prior experience building and maintaining Platform as a Service offerings via Cloud based providers
• Strong understanding of RHEL/CentOS Linux distributions
• Strong understanding of RedHat OpenShift and/or other Kubernetes distributions
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker)
• Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services
• Strong Troubleshooting skills
• Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology
• Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools: GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus

Desired Skills:

• Experience administering production RedHat OpenShift clusters
• Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Salt or Terraform
• Experience working with one or more Python, Ruby, or Java
• Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g. VMWare)
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development

Education/Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree and 6 years of experience or an equivalent years of education and years of experience 
• Active TS/SCI clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI polygraph

Benefits and Perks

Compensation

• Industry competitive salary well above market average
• 401K plan with 4% company match, immediately fully vested
• Referral bonuses up to $7,500

100% company-paid benefits

• Cigna OAP $0 deductible Medical plan for employee family
• Vision and Dental plan for employee family
• Short Term Disability for employee
• Long Term Disability for employee
• Life Insurance for employee

Flexible Paid Time Off Policy

• 180 hours (minimum) per year of PTO with additional time at manager discretion
• 10 Company Holidays per year
• 6 weeks paid maternity and paternity leave
• Flexible work environment to accommodate commuting, family and personal schedules

Career Growth

• Company sponsored training and certifications
• No questions asked professional/business/technical book reimbursement
• Company paid training and conference attendance and travel expenses

Company Overview
Innovative Data Solutions (IDS) is a small business specializing in engineering and supporting mission critical IT infrastructure for the US Government Intelligence, Defense and Homeland Security communities.

Established in 2008, IDS has 14 years of experience delivering IT solutions to the Federal market. We’re a small company of technology enthusiasts and we thrive on exceeding expectations. We specialize in Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise Storage, High Performance Computing, Cybersecurity and Data Analytics. Across these technology areas we provide full lifecycle services: strategy, design, implementation and operations.

IDS engineers are based in Washington, DC and St. Louis, MO and are experienced working with US Government installations across the US, Europe and Asia.