NorthHill Technology Resources has a need for a Senior Cloud Engineer to support NGA in Springfield, VA.  This is a direct-hire role with our client, a fast-growing Federal Integrator.  Outstanding compensation, benefits and company culture.  An active Top-Secret Clearance is required.

Sr. Hybrid Cloud Engineer 
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:

• Build and Maintain Platform as a Service Offering using RedHat OpenShift
• Work with A&A Team to 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, ELB, and RDS
• Maintain System in a VMware vSphere environment, using NSX, and NetApp StorageGRID
• Automate and optimize service deployments

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
• 3+ years IT experience
• 3+ years’ experience with Platform as a Service Offerings (e.g. RedHat OpenShift, Tanzu, etc)

Required Skills:

• Prior experience building and maintaining Platform as a Service offerings via Cloud based providers
• Strong understanding of RHEL/CentOS Linux distributions
• Strong understanding of RedHat OpenShift and/or other Kubernetes distributions
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker)
• Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services
• Strong Troubleshooting skills
• Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology
• Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools: GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus
• Strong communication skills

Desired Skills:

• Experience administering production RedHat OpenShift clusters
• Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Salt or Terraform
• Experience working with one or more Python, Ruby, or Java
• Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g. VMWare)
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development

Desired Certifications:

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• RedHat Certified OpenShift Administrator