Cloud Engineer

Title: Cloud Engineer (TS/SCI Clearance)

PTFS is a leader in digital content management solutions, content digitization, and library services/solutions, serving more than 500 organizations around the world.

Position Summary:

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 customer’s 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

Benefits:

• 15 days paid time off per year
• 11 paid holidays per year
• Medical, Dental & Vision
• 401(k) Plan with matching
• Tuition assistance
• Disability insurance