Cloud Engineer - Expert (Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph)
QTalent Solutions
Full-time
On-site
Virginia, United States
Cloud Engineer with Top Secret/SCI Clearance + Full Scope Polygraph
Our client is a leading force in the defense and intelligence sector and is seeking a highly expert Cloud Engineer with Top Secret/SCI clearance with full scope polygraph. This full-time position is based in the heart of Tyson's, VA, offering a unique blend of career excellence and quality living.
WHY THIS OPPORTUNITY?
- Competitive Salary & Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy a top-tier salary, 11% 401(k) matching, full health coverage, and more.
- Generous Leave & Work-Life Balance: With 5 weeks of paid leave, find the perfect work-life harmony.
- Continuous Growth: Benefit from our generous training budget and opportunities for paid certifications and education.
- Employee Referral Bonus: A lucrative referral program that rewards you for expanding our team with top talent.
- Business Development Incentives: Participate in the growth and enjoy the rewards.
The selected candidate will work closely with multiple application teams and lead the project teams to integrate the organization’s systems with a new web-based system, replacing the legacy enterprise messaging system, which will reside in their cloud environment. You will also:
- Assist with setup of AI/ML environments.
- Assist with setup access to data in the enterprise messaging system to reduce manual review on responding to questions and automatically extract and tag important data.
- Maintain systems and applications in the Organization’s cloud environment
- Optimize operational efficiency of systems and applications in a cloud environment.
- Work to ensure security compliance within the cloud infrastructure
- Design, develop, and implement cloud-based solutions for optimization
- Maintain cloud-based solutions
- Deploy and debug cloud stacks
- Educate teams on new cloud initiatives.
- Maintain the security of the cloud infrastructure
REQUIRED SKILLS:
Clearance Level: Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide Operations & Maintenance (O&M) support to production systems to include troubleshooting.
- Cloud platform administration such as Amazon Web Services.
- Configuration and infrastructure management of technical components, including hardware, software, and data.
- Developand continuing improvement of automation and procedures scripts.
- Analyze and support cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services.
- Monitor system performance and recommend corrective action.
- Document cloud environment and maintain the documentation.
- Infrastructure-as-code software such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Scripting languages such as Python.
- Linux or Linux Administration.
- Software version control management such as GitHub.
- Application build pipelines such as Jenkins.
HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS
- Obtaining authentication and accreditation certification for systems with highly sensitive data
- Complying with regulations and policies regarding systems integration with external services (such as access control or auditing), patching and maintaining current versions of software, outage
- Reporting, accessibility requirements, internal-use software reporting, or auditing.
- Knowledge of JIRA, Confluence or SharePoint.
- Excellent customer service.
- Briefing technical topics to a non-technical audience
- Operating within the life cycle management process when implementing changes in technology
- Effectively managing multiple priorities and meeting deadlines.
- Excelling both independently and as a team member in a lively, collaborative environment and security best practices.
- Problem-solving skills.
- Oral and written communication skills.
- Strong leadership abilities and experience juggling competing priorities.
CERTIFICATION(S):
- AWS Certification or other relevant Certifications