NorthHill Technology Resources has a need for a Cloud Engineer to support a Federal Program in Springfield, VA.  This is a direct-hire role with our client, a fast-growing Federal Integrator.  An active Top Secret Clearance is required.

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:

 

•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

 

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