What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Engineer position at SOS International LLC?
SOS International LLC (SOSi) is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our team in Huntsville, AL or Reston, VA to provide technical expertise maintaining the readiness, automation, efficiency, and cost effectiveness of all SOSi cloud environments. In this role, you will play a key part in architecting, building, and deploying Cloud Native solutions to a wide array of internal and external .
Essential Job Duties
What You’ll Do
- Operate as part of an innovation cell in the Office of the CTO designed to deliver innovation across SOSi and our customers
- Perform hands on engineering designing and implementing cutting-edge infrastructure supporting a wide range of emerging technologies such as AI/ML supporting DDIL missions
- Deploy well-architected solutions using a variety of Infrastructure as Code frameworks
- Collaborate across SOSi customers and internal teams in innovation sprints to rapidly define, design, and deploy game changing capability
- Author major sections in thought leadership articles, customer whitepapers, and Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP) documents
- Grow our emerging FinOps, SRE, Chaos Engineering, and Telemetry practice areas
- Be the goto expert across a diverse Cloud Service Provider team (AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM, NodeShift, and OCI)
- Interact with the OSS community
Minimum Requirements
What You Need to be Successful
- A Bachelor's degree in a technical field is preferred but not required. Candidates with extensive experience in cloud technologies and relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Google Professional Cloud Architect) will be considered.
- Target 5 years experience or very strong work samples
- Strong Technical Communicator who can take rough ideas/concepts and collaborative iterate with stakeholders to rapidly design and deliver effective solutions
- Solid Background in:
- AWS and Azure with some understanding of GCP and OCI
- Cloud Native Infrastructure
- Virtualization (virtual machines, containers, serverless)
- Commercial and IL2-IL5 environments
- Someone who thrives in dynamic R&D/lab environments over structured pre planned work
Preferred Qualifications
What We’d Love to See
- AWS Solutions Architect
- Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect certification
- An Active Secret/Top Secret
- IL6 experience
- Located in Huntsville AL or Reston VA
Work Environment
- Hybrid work environment
Benefits
Health
- Wide range of Dental, Vision, and Medical coverage
- Available Life and Disability insurance
- Health Advocate Program
Financial
- 401k Retirement Plan
Leave
- 16 days off holidays and flexible floating holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
Learning
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
- Approved Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
Commitment to Diversity
SOSi does not discriminate against job applicants or employees on any legally recognized basis including, but not limited to age, race, color, religion, national origin, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable U.S. federal, state, and local laws.