Cloud Engineer

Position Name: Cloud Engineer Must Possess Clearance: DoD Secret clearance Location: Scott Air Force Base (AFB), IL approximately 20 Miles from St. Louis, MO Potential for Remote Work: NA Introduction The National Security Customer Group of SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support an IT Service Management effort for USTRANSCOM located at Scott Air Force Base (AFB) in Illinois. The USTC Managed Information Technology Services (MITS) contract is intended to provide strategic, technical, and program management guidance and support services to facilitate the operations and modernization of the combatant command's infrastructure, systems, and applications. This support will be provided to the USTC Command, Control, Communications & Cyber Systems Directorate (TCJ6). The successful candidate initiates, supervises, and/or develops requirements from a project's inception to conclusion for complex to extremely complex programs; Provides strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to program and project staff; Provides detailed analysis, evaluation and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission critical challenges/issues; Consults with client to define needs or problems, supervises studies and leads surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions. ResponsibilitiesProviding hands-on development and implementation of commercial cloud solution architectures that modernize the way our customers architect, deploy, and use cloud technology, focusing on security, scalability, and resiliency Planning, designing, and managing the migration, re-platforming, integration, implementation and operation of our client's complex cloud IL5/IL6 environments enabling managed shared services within Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) Environment and/or on premises enclaves. Ensuring commercial cloud service offerings (CSO) adhere to DoD Cloud Computing policy/guidelines Providing specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection, cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements Developing and conducting testing of cloud and virtualization systems Maintaining technical expertise relevant industry standards and in cloud computing and virtualization technologies such as cloud service provider architecture, design, and configuration; cloud deployment models including public, community, private, and hybrid; cloud service delivery models including infrastructure-, platform-, and software-as-a-service; automation; hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networks; virtual infrastructure management; self-provisioning; and scaling Evaluating and reporting on new cloud and virtualization technologies to enhance capabilities of cloud-based and virtualized services May also provide systems engineering activities such as: Concept of Operations Formulation, Requirements Definition, Analysis and Engineering, System Architecting, System Analysis and Design, Interface and Data Architectures, Validation and Verification, System Integration, System Op. Performance Analysis, Lifecycle Cost Analysis Estimation, Decision Analysis and Physical Configuration Analysis (PCA) Recommending/making decisions on administrative or project work matters and ensures effective achievement of program, project, or organizational objectives This position is for Monday through Friday, normal business hours. However, employee may be required to provide after-hours and weekend support during planned or emergency events. Required QualificationsBA/BS Four (4) years or more experience Active DoD Secret Clearance AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Certification Must have at least one of these IAT Level II certifications: Security+, CySA+ **, GICSP, GSEC, CND, SSCP Computing Environment (CE) certification or certificate for the technical area of responsibility for Cloud or virtualization (e.g., Azure, AWS, oracle, IBM, etc.) with a preference in AWS. Proficient knowledge of Redhat Enterprise Linux operating system and command line administration. Experience with AWS ECS/EC2/CLI, & best practices Experience designing, building, and managing cloud-based applications and services using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Familiarity and experience with AWS service offerings in AWS GovCloud Interacting with clients, providing cloud support, and making recommendations based on client needs The AWS Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining scalable and secure cloud infrastructure on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform Familiarity with AWS Networking. Including Transit Gateway, VPNs, and VPC Endpoints Experience with deploying DNS in a cloud environment including Route53 and BIND Exposure to cloud formation templates, writing, and understanding how to implement Desired Qualifications MA/MS 10 or more years of experience AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional ITIL V4 Foundations Certification Experience with Zero trust architectures Experience with AWS Workspaces or experience deploying VDI solutions to AWS Cloud Experience with AWS monitoring and alerting tools, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch Ability to utilize a variety of tools like Git, Jenkins, Groovy, YML, and AWS security capabilities (WAF, GuardDuty, Security Groups, IAM, etc.) Basic understanding of, and experience as a cloud engineer with AWS, Networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, SQL, storage Exposure to containerization ( ECS,EKS, Fargate)