Cloud Engineer

Location

Springfield, VA | United States

Job description

Location: Springfield, VA/St. Louis, MO

Security Clearance Required: Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.**

Required Certifications: DoD 8140/8570 IAT III compliance

teKnoluxion provides the Defense and Intelligence Communities technical experts in the fields of Software & Systems Engineering, Enterprise Operations, and Cloud Services Management & Consulting. Our goal is not to simply support efforts, but to ignite a technology revolution, bridging the growing technology gap between the Government and commercial space.

Are you ready to test your abilities as a Cloud Engineer and team member in a sophisticated enterprise exploitation environment? Would you like to make an immediate and direct impact in your job? Join a dedicated team supporting the UDS contract at NGA.  

What you get to do every day:

• 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:

  • Conduct full range of cloud engineering, administrative and IT operational tasks to support the environments to meet business needs
  • Build and support AWS infrastructure resources using CloudFormation and Code Pipeline (GitLab & Terraform)
  • Create and manage IAM users, and access policies
  • Integrate applications and services in AWS cloud environment
  • Implement and support tools and automation for AWS infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, diagnostics, and scaling
  • Utilize and maintain Python automation scripts
  • Use CloudWatch metrics to monitor the health and utilization of AWS resources and applications
  • Develop, document, and perform approved system maintenance plans

Clearance: Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.**

Education/Experience:

• Requires a 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, preferably system administration of large enterprise networks (Windows, Linux platforms)

Required Certifications: DoD 8140/8570 IAT III compliance

Required Skills:

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology
• Familiarity with DevOps development processes and GitLab Continuous Integration tool
• Strong understanding of RHEL/CentOS Linux distributions
• Knowledge of Bash and Python scripting languages
• Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Excellent attention to detail
• Team player who works well with customers and colleagues
• Work effectively both independently and in a team environment

What is ideal?

• Understanding of cloud APIs
• Familiarity with the AWS/CLI
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (IaC); preferably Terraform
• Experience in technical operations at DOD agencies, particularly NGA and DIA

• Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by teKnoluxion through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses
• You’ll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community
• Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match and potential Profit Sharing, Universal Leave, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more!
• Compensation is unique to each candidate and compensation packages are based on education, experience, and other requirements.

teKnoluxion is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.

teKnoluxion does not have a vaccination mandate applicable to team members. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements. Regardless of vaccination status , personnel are required to wear masks while indoors when the CDC COVID-19 Community Level is High.

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