Senior Cloud Engineer

Who YOU are:

As a future Senior Cloud Engineer at Plus3 IT Systems, you:

• Are passionate about working on cutting-edge, high-profile projects and are motivated by delivering solutions on an aggressive schedule 
• Aren’t satisfied with status quo, and regularly look for creative ways to solve problems and help your team meet commitments 
• Are insatiably curious – you ask why, you explore, and you’re not afraid to blurt out your crazy idea 
• Love learning new technologies and sharing them with your team 
• Have a keen interest in using any and all appropriate tools, especially Cloud-based and Open Sourced, to solve the problem at hand 
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills, due to the dynamic nature of collaborations with customers, vendors, and other engineering teams to solve complex business problems together 
• Use your experience and leadership skills to motivate your teammates to deliver high quality results in a fast-paced work environment 
• Lead by example to partner with our customers and deliver mission grade solutions, delivered within a transparent Agile framework.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: develop automation and leverage DevSecOps to enable innovative, effective and secure business processes.  This program encompasses technical, engineering, data analytics, cyber security, management, operational, logistical and administrative support to aid and advise the customer.

• Serve as one of the Plus3IT point of contact for the customer mission team
• Provide leadership for product design and development, establish strategies and high level plans for project execution
• Applying a DevSecOps approach to build, manage, and secure environment in support of the customer and their mission
• You will implement platform capabilities utilizing cloud-centric technologies
• You’ll recommend tools to help your clients manage and securely adopt containers
• Expand upon your skills in areas like Containerization​, Orchestration​, and Microservices​ while developing critical cloud platforms for clients
• Interact with the customer management team on a regular basis for all project customer communications
• Assist with development of documentation and other project artifacts
• Lead and participate within an DevSecOps and Engineering teams to sustain mission critical systems
• Conduct product review and evaluation sessions with team members and customer staff
• Lead effort to move a stand-alone, air-gapped, network into a cloud environment, such as AWS or Azure
• Consult with customer to gather and evaluate technical and business requirements and translate these requirements into technical solutions
• Develop and provide a project plan, system cost analysis, and timelines
• Develop, deploy, and maintain cloud services and Infrastructure as Code utilizing SecDevOps tooling and practices
• Provide technical expertise on cloud cluster computing techniques and technologies and expert advice to the program, and related cloud computing architectures
• Develop large data technologies, algorithms, and applications for clients
• Research, evaluate, and deploy advanced cloud computing systems and large data analytics for clients in research and production areas
• Work with massive data sets, complex algorithms, and team members from a variety of specialties to solve clients’ hardest problems
• Support a range of clients from front line analysts to researchers and senior leadership
• Work as a key contributor on a collaborative, and highly skilled team
• Experience with information extraction and analysis techniques, practices, and algorithms

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 14 years of related technical experience required
• 4 additional years of related experience can be used in lieu of degree
• Active Top Secret security clearance is required
• Possess CISSP, CCSP, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent certification
• Security Plus Certification

Desired Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience leveraging cloud environment and service-oriented architecture principles to define and own solution architecture (applications and data technologies)
• Azure experience preferred
• AWS/GCP nice to have
• Demonstrated ability to propose suggestions and best practices to optimize customers’ cloud presence, performance, security, and cost
• Experience and understanding of Networking, firewalls, Storage, PKI, LDAP, etc.
• Experience with IT system integration into customer networks
• Experience with Identity and Access Management basics: RBAC, Active Directory, Least privilege principles, etc.
• Experience with Integrated Development Environments (IDE) such as VSCode
• Need to know to use Git (forks, branches, PRs)
• Need to have understanding of basic DevOps and CI/CD Processes
• Forks, Branches, Pull Requests
• Working knowledge of Powershell and Bash shell scripting languages
• Ability to write Infrastructure As Code (Needs to have experience with at least one of the following
• Terraform or Bicep experience 
• Cloud Formation or ARM template experience
• Understanding or JSON and YAML file\data formats

Other:

Plus3 IT Systems is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.  We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact [email protected] [include name and/or department, telephone, and e-mail address].

The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. With the continuing impacts of COVID-19 around the world, we are taking action to protect the health and well-being of our colleagues and maintain the safety of the communities where we operate. As a federal contractor, we are required to stay in compliance with Executive Order 14042 with the most up to date information provided at the following link (https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/).

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