Cloud Systems Administrator

Cloud Systems Administrator
Veterans Affairs Community Care Providers (CCP)

The Opportunity:
Design, develop, implement, and configure cloud system administration environments and tools. Implement security controls and security features to support and address cybersecurity challenges on PaaS and IaaS environments.

Apply consulting and technical expertise and full industry knowledge on VA cloud solution tailoring. Develop or support innovative solutions to complex problems. Define, communicate, and implement cloud architecture and administration processes for VA platforms. Apply technical expertise and industry knowledge to programs and projects. Work with minimal supervision within established procedures and practices and serve as an informal lead or mentor to junior team members. This position is open to remote delivery anywhere within the U.S., including the District of Columbia. 

Basic Qualifications: 

• 5 years of experience with configuring cloud administrative environments and tools 
• Experience with defining secure-based cloud architecture while adhering to development methodologies, engineering, and cloud standards.
• Experience with providing detailed guidance to engineering team members creating administrative processes and procedures 
• Experience with performing operational and day-to-day administrative support functions including troubleshooting of issues and support of change and problem management processes 
• Ability to support cybersecurity team in conducting a security analysis and assessment of current processes and platforms, and can generate ad-hoc reports and guidance for team members or management 
• Ability to design solutions and recommending the most suitable design packages to improve current administrative security levels and performance 
• Experience with developing, deploying and troubleshooting IAC environments using Hashicorp Terraform
• Experience working within multiple Cloud Service Providers (AWS GovCloud, AWS Commercial and Azure)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or equivalent with 5 years of professional experience or a total of 13 in lieu of education. 

• Experience with supporting engineering applications in a cloud environment 
• Knowledge to track, mitigate, and remediates software and hardware vulnerabilities with the cybersecurity team 
• Ability to manage resources, including Virtual Machines, Virtual Desktop, Lighthouse, Active Directory, and other network resources in a Cloud environment with Azure preferred 
• Ability to demonstrate the leadership behaviors to effectively communicate, coordinate, collaborate, and work in a visible and proactive manner across boundaries to deliver positive results 
• Ability to be a highly engaging, team-oriented, customer-focused, strong work ethic, and self-starting individual able to respond rapidly to a dynamic programmatic environment 

• Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

For the operations role, there is an emphasis on someone with experience in Jenkins, Kubernetes, Dynatrace, Terraform, and knowledge/experience in Docker/containers.