Cloud Engineer Lead

***THIS ROLE IS NOT OPEN FOR SPONSORED CANDIDATES***

***THIS ROLE IS FOR A DIRECT CLIENT***

***CANDIDATES WITHIN 25 MILES FROM MCLEAN, VA ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY***

***THIS ROLE REQUIRES THE DEVELOPER TO BE ONSITE (HYBRID), 3 DAYS A WEEK***

Cloud Engineer Lead

Duration: 6 months. CTH (conversion can happen as early as 3 months).

Location: Onsite (Hybrid) in McLean, VA on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

Schedule: Standard

Years of experience: 10+

Must Have Qualifications: Experienced Lead with 10+ years of experience, having knowledge of data engineering and pipelines in AWS environment, knowledge of Kafka, EMR, EKS, Scala, Spark.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in information technology, engineering, computer science, related field, or equivalent experience. Advanced studies/degree is preferred.
• 10+ years of overall information technology experience with an emphasis on integration and delivery of virtual/cloud platforms to enterprise applications, recent public cloud experience preferred.
• At least three years proven experience with AWS cloud formation, Terraform, or similar tools.
• 5+ years of related industry experience in an enterprise environment.
• 3+ years of experience with engineering and supporting containerization technology (Kubernetes, AWS(ECS/EKS) etc.) at scale.
• Experience with Python, Ansible and shell scripting to automate routine operation tasks.
• Experience in identity and access data correlation, normalization and building of cohesive identity and access data models for large enterprises.
• Single Sign On (SSO) integration and session management for multiple web and cloud applications.
• Identity Federation (SAML) configuration and integration across multiple trusted third parties, applications, and systems.
• Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) such as Duo or Microsoft Authenticator security integration into the authentication, authorization, and single sing on process for applications and systems.
• API security and API integration with IAM systems for sharing identity contexts.
• Experience in Jenkins, Git and Artifactory.
• Formal design patterns and industry best-practices.
• Scripting languages (e.g., Groovy / Perl / Python / Ruby).
• 2+ years of experience across a variety of technologies such databases, directory services, application servers, network infrastructures, Linux operating systems, and an understanding of fundamental security and data flows within these components.
• Scaling CI/CD systems and microservices.
• Code coverage analysis / static analysis tools.
• Agile programming processes and methodologies such as Scrum.
• Overseeing / managing production application deployment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Self-motivated, driven, and creative individual.
• Ability to provide 24x7 operational support on periodic basis and triage complex issues to restore availability.
• Documentation of Engineering Solutions and Designs.