IT Cloud Systems Engineer (TS/SCI with FS Polygraph)

Title: IT Cloud Systems Engineer#1, Expert

Location: On-site Bethesda, MD

Job Type: Full-time (40 hours per week) with benefits.

Availability: immediate.

Security Clearance: TS/SCI with FS Polygraph.

Years of Experience:

• 4 years with a PhD
• 8 years with a BS degree.
• 6 years with a master’s degree
• 10 years with an AA degree
• 12 years with an HS diploma

Job Description

This engineer will work with a team of technical cloud computing professionals to rapidly build and deploy a demonstration capability while simultaneously supporting the program office to specify, design, and deploy the final system. The development will iteratively take place using scrum techniques with inputs from multiple stakeholders. The development team will rapidly grow into a large-scale enterprise development effort. This position will require exceptional flexibility and technical skills. The work will be done in a dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders and changing requirements. This effort will include a variety of activities, including:

•   Work with a team of technical cloud computing professionals to rapidly build and deploy a demonstration capability while simultaneously supporting the program office to specify, design, and deploy the final system.

•   Development will take place iteratively using scrum techniques, with input from multiple stakeholders. The development team will rapidly grow into a large-scale enterprise development effort.

•  Requires exceptional flexibility and technical skills.

•    Work will be done in a dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders and changing requirements.

•     Participation in iterative software development teams with adherence to all reporting requirements

•    Meeting with stakeholders, analyzing requirements, user stories, and related artifacts to determine specifications for the system environments

•   Coordinating with technical teams responsible for the cloud hosting infrastructures in order to establish and maintain the environments used by the program for the development, test, and deployment of the demonstration capability and the final production system

•  Build, migrate, and test AWS cloud environments and integrations

•  Develop templates or scripts to automate everyday developer or operations functions

•  Build new automation to expand and maintain Cloud hosting

•  Monitor and maintain multiple Cloud Infrastructure environments based on client requirements

•  Identify new tools and processes to improve the Cloud platforms

•    Collaborate with remote team members to build and maintain positive, productive team relationships

•  Developing, testing, and monitoring connections to interfacing systems such as data feeds from numerous organizations and user interactions from other Sponsor organizations

•    Working with other programs to coordinate the integration of enterprise services to be consumed/used by the Sponsor system

•  As this program matures, this role may require occasional on-call after-hours support

•   Development of technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed by program management

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

•    Education: Bachelors (Computer engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information systems, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a closely related discipline)

•  Required Experience: 8+ yrs

Required Technical Skills:

•  Linux/Unix advance systems administration

•  Knowledge of physical server management (Hardware) and troubleshooting

•  Cloud application (AWS/Azure) architecture

•  AWS Cloud Formation

•  Large scale system integration

•  Scripting to automate developer or operations functions

•   Environment and Server layout and configuration maintenance to Industry standards and best practices

•  Developing enterprise and solution-level architectural designs

•  JIRA, Confluence, and other project management tools

•  Review and Maintain environments at the latest security posture

•  Remediate app/package installations

•  Rapid prototyping to refine system requirements and technical specifications of the system and its operating environments

•  Experience in developing enterprise and solution-level architectural designs.

•  Knowledge of infrastructure as code design, management, and version control techniques.

•    Exposure to project management skills and/or project-based work structures, project lifecycle

models, etc.

•  Knowledge of system and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies.

Strong communication and documentation skills

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• 401K