Cloud System Integrator - Level 2 PS2026

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Job Title: SZ-147 - Cloud System Integrator - Level 2

Location (On-site, Remote, or Hybrid?): Hanover, MD (Onsite)

Contract Duration: Contract until 06/13/2031

Position Overview

This position supports an Intelligence Community (IC) agency program in Hanover, MD, delivering cloud infrastructure integration and engineering for mission-critical classified systems. The Cloud System Integrator (Level 2) designs, implements, and maintains cloud environments across modernization and migration efforts, ensuring systems meet governance requirements and best practices within a classified operating environment. This position requires an active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph prior to start and reports into an embedded program team supporting IC mission priorities.

Candidates should bring 7-10 years of progressive cloud infrastructure experience, with demonstrated depth in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), container orchestration, and multi-cloud architecture. This position requires direct employment with EmergeATS (Kroll subsidiary). No sub-to-sub arrangements.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure Design and Implementation

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure, including modernization, migration, and roadmap planning, ensuring alignment with governance requirements and security best practices
• Design and implement secure, scalable cloud architectures across compute, storage, networking, and IAM
• Stay current on emerging technologies and recommend enhancements to existing systems
• Infrastructure as Code and Automation
• Build reusable IaC modules (e.g., Helm Charts, Terraform) and enforce development standards for creation and maintenance of Infrastructure as Code
• Develop and maintain IaC using tools including Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK
• Manage container and platform workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, and GKE
• Monitoring, Reliability, and Incident Response
• Continuously monitor infrastructure health and performance using logging and alerting tools (CloudWatch, PrometheGrafana, ELK/OpenSearch) and respond to incidents
• Implement and test backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies
• Manage secrets and key management using tools such as KMS, KeyVault, and Secret Manager, including certificate and rotation policies
• Cost Optimization and Reporting
• Provide strategies for failure recovery, high availability, cost optimization (tagging, budgets, rightsizing, autoscaling), and cloud service benefit analysis
• Optimize cloud cost and performance and produce usage and cost reports
• Documentation and Continuous Improvement
• Contribute to deliverables including architectures, runbooks, and operational procedures, and provide knowledge transfer to internal teams
• Track and report on performance metrics where applicable
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system capabilities and efficiency
  
  

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline (or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of degree)
• Experience: 7 years of progressive cloud infrastructure and systems engineering experience in DoD or IC classified environments
  
  

Additional Required Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph -- must be active prior to start
• Experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure and services (compute, storage, networking, IAM)
• Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud architectures
• Experience developing and maintaining IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or equivalent
• Knowledge of container and platform workloads (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS/AKS/GKE)
• Experience configuring monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, PrometheGrafana, ELK/OpenSearch) and responding to incidents
• Experience implementing and testing backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies
• Experience managing secrets and key management (KMS/KeyVault/Secret Manager), certificates, and rotation policies
• Experience optimizing cloud cost and performance (tagging, budgets, rightsizing, autoscaling) and producing usage/cost reports
• Experience troubleshooting cloud infrastructure issues across networking (DNS, routing, VPN), security, and service limits
• Experience documenting architectures, runbooks, and operational procedures
• Experience with Linux OS
  
  

Desired Skills

• CI/CD pipeline experience (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent) in a classified environment
• Experience with FedRAMP High, NIST 800-53, RMF, or STIG compliance in cloud configurations
• Multi-cloud experience (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, Google Cloud Platform)
• Scripting proficiency (Python, Bash, or Go)
• Experience with GitOps workflows and version control in classified environments
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies
  
  

Part 3: Technical Skills Keywords (For VNDLY Tags)

Must Have (10 tags):

• Active TS/SCI Full Scope Polygraph
• Cloud Infrastructure Engineering
• Infrastructure as Code Terraform
• Kubernetes Container Orchestration
• AWS GovCloud Architecture3
• CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana Monitoring
• Disaster Recovery High Availability
• Secrets Key Management KMS
• Linux OS Administration
• Cloud Cost Optimization
  
  

Nice to Have (6 tags):

• CI/CD Pipeline Classified Environment
• FedRAMP NIST 800-53 RMF
• Multi-Cloud AWS Azure Google Cloud Platform
• Python Bash Scripting
• GitOps Version Control
• Agile Scrum DevOps