Cloud Engineer with Security Clearance

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Job description

As a Cloud Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a TS/SCI cleared Cloud Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence customer in St. Louis, MO and Springfield, VA. HOW A CLOUD ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT 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: • 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, Load Balancer, RDS, and IAM • Manage and Maintain AWS WorkSpaces • Automate and optimize service deployments • Delivering a full-stack web application to production; identifying and resolving operational issues in same • Actively participating in technical requirements-gathering process (i.e. meetings with customers) • Executing design and implementation of application features, independently / unassisted, with minimal oversight • Writing and reading unit tests; understanding code-quality analysis concepts • Writing and debugging Javascript, Typescript, or closely-related language • Developing applications backed by a relational database; understanding RDB design concepts WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED: 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 • 5+ years IT experience • Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements including one of the following: Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA Required Skills: • Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services • Strong Troubleshooting skills at the Tier 1-3 level • Angular frontend framework; UI/UX design • Microservice-based backend architecture; integrating with COTS/FOSS software REST APIs • CI/CD pipeline implementation, ideally with GitLab • Strong Knowledge of Active Directory • Windows/Linux/Ubuntu/CentOS Administration experience • Desktop support • Domain/System Administrator experience • Be a team collaborator • Have or able to receive a TS/SCI with CI Poly Desired Skills: • Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI • Experience working with one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, or Java) • Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development • Database experience with a Postgres backend • Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl • Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools: GitLab, GitLab Pages, and Nexus • Knowledge of Confluence and Jira • Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Analytical and problem solving skills Desired Certifications: • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner • Agile/SAFe Location: On Company Site US Citizenship Required

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