Cloud Engineer - TS/SCI

Overview

On Site
$140,000 - $160,000
Full Time

Skills

Agile
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
Amazon Web Services
Ansible
Authentication
Bash
Cascading style sheets
CentOS
Cloud computing
Communication
Continuous Integration and Development
Continuous integration
DevOps
Docker
GitLab
HTML
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Linux
Marketing operations
Military
NetApp
Progress Chef
Puppet
Python
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Linux
Ruby
Science
Scrum
Security clearance
System monitoring
Technical Support
Technical training
VMware
VMware vSphere
Virtualization
Web portals
Windows PowerShell

Job Details

Cloud Engineer

TS/SCI

On-site Springfield, VA or St. Louis

Email:

ALTA IT is looking for a Cloud Engineer to join our team to support our intelligence customer activities onsite in Springfield, VA, or St. Louis, MO.

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

WHAT YOU LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

  • Active TS / SCI Clearance and eligibility to obtain a Poly.
  • 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
  • Strong communication skills

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

DESIRED CERTIFICATIONS:

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • RedHat Certified OpenShift Administrator

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
  • 3+ years IT experience
  • 3+ years experience with Platform as a Service Offerings (e.g. RedHat OpenShift
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