Cloud Engineer

Why do you need to choose between doing important work and having a fulfilling life? At Ardent, we have both. Ardent employees are committed to solving our customers’ most difficult problems—and we are committed to the well-being, personal goals, and professional development of our employee. We are “All In.” We put forth our strongest effort possible to get the mission accomplished and we do it together. We respect the skills and experience you bring to the Ardent team. And we provide a rewarding environment to help you succeed. 

We offer highly competitive benefits, professional development opportunities, and an exceptional culture that embraces flexibility, innovation, collaboration, and career growth. A collective service mindset underpins our work, and a shared camaraderie to serve clients, colleagues and our communities set us apart. Our full commitment to being "All In" for our employees and our clients is not just our approach, it is our standard. If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, choose Ardent and make a difference with us. 

Ardent is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our team.  

This is an onsite position located in Tysons, VA. Remote work is subject to the discretion/needs of the customer.

Ardent is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer to support our government customer, focusing on DevOpsSec pipeline development, performance monitoring, and cloud resource management. This role will be responsible for migrating government applications between cloud environments and ensuring seamless data processing with external partners such as CBP and DoS. The Cloud Engineer will design and deploy CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure as code (IaC), set up and maintain development, test, UAT, and staging environments, and optimize cloud solutions to support the program's objectives.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Develop and maintain DevOpsSec pipelines to support continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) for government applications. Monitor and optimize cloud performance, resource usage, and billing to ensure cost-effective operation.
• Manage the migration of government applications and services between AWS environments, including to FedRAMP-approved GovCloud. Collaborate with external partners such as CBP and DoS to improve connectivity and data processing solutions.
• Design and maintain development, test, UAT, and staging environments.
• Deploy infrastructure as code (IaC) using automation tools for seamless provisioning and scaling of resources.
• Provide solutions for cloud-based hosting, backup, and disaster recovery, ensuring high availability and failover capabilities. Implement technical solutions compliant with FISMA and NIST security standards.
• Design logical and network diagrams for improved system design and implementation.
• Utilize Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools such as DataDog, AppDynamics, or NewRelic to track and improve system performance.

Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment OR 10+ years of relevant experience without a Bachelor’s degree.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional.
• Experience with designing and implementing AWS cloud solutions.
• Proficiency in developing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Strong background in performance monitoring, resource optimization, and cloud billing management.
• Experience with DevOpsSec tools, including JIRA, automated testing, blue-green deployments, and branching strategies.
• Proficient in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, such as DataDog, AppDynamics, or NewRelic.

Preferred Requirements: 

• Experience in developing web services and APIs using open standards like XML, SOAP, and WSDL.
• Experience applying The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) in Agile environments to minimize technical debt.
• Experience with network communication protocols, routing, proxy settings, and firewall policies.
• Familiarity with microservices/container architectures (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift), and automation tools.
• Experience with cloud-based hosting, backup, and recovery solutions, including failover zones.
• Experience with database management and administration (MongoDB, Oracle).

Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be willing to undergo the government-issued background investigation process.

Ardent is an equal-opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.