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CLOUD ENGINEER (TS/SCI CLEARANCE REQUIRED)

  • Springfield, VA
  • Information Technology
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 TS/SCI Clearance is required, will sponsor for CI Polygraph within first year.

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:

  • 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, Load Balancer, and RDS
  • 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
  • Refactoring legacy application code for improved reliability and maintainability
  • Mentoring junior developers
  • 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
  • 8+ 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
  • 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
  • Extensive Typescript or Javascript background
  • Angular frontend framework; UI/UX design
  • Microservice-based backend architecture; integrating with COTS/FOSS software REST APIs
  • Supporting a full-stack application in a PaaS environment
  • CI/CD pipeline implementation, ideally with GitLab
  • Creating and deploying containerized applications, ideally with Docker
  • Designing/implementing container orchestration with Kubernetes

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)
  • Experience with Go programming language
  • Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development
  • Database experience with a Postgres backend
  • Strong communication skills

Desired Certifications:

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner