Cloud Automation Engineer
Location
Alabama | United States
Job description
Description
SAIC is looking for a remote Cloud Automation Engineer to join our team supporting our customer the US Army CORPs of Engineers (USACE) – Revolutionary Information Technology Services (RITS) program.
This position will be part of the Enterprise Engineering Team that encompasses the engineering and technical support services required to research, design, model, test, pilot, and implement the systems and infrastructure required to deliver voice, video, network, compute, and data services for the USACE Enterprise.
Job Duties:
- Receives direction from Multi-Domain Solutions Architect.
- Designs, plans, and integrates cloud and virtualization technologies, using infrastructure as code and agile frameworks.
- Develops automation scripts for efficient deployment and operations of cloud and virtualization systems.
- Develops and conducts testing of cloud and virtualization systems.
- Lead ongoing governance modernization efforts, including policy, security, compliance, and change management.
- Maintains technical expertise relevant industry standards and best practices 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.
- Evaluates and reports on new cloud and virtualization technologies to enhance capabilities of cloud-based and virtualized services.
- Support the development of Concept of Operations, Requirements Definition, Analysis and Engineering, System Architecture, System Analysis and Design, Interface and Data Architectures, Validation and Verification, System Integration, System & Op. Performance Analysis, Lifecycle Cost Analysis & Estimation documentation.
- Champion infrastructure automation initiatives throughout the full life cycle, addressing the significant complexity and scale challenges inherent to next-generation technologies.
- Prepare for automation by developing the strategy, teams, and roadmaps to IT Modernization.
- Leverage Cloud, DevOps, DevSecOps, AIOps, and containerization expertise to design, build, and deliver modernized infrastructure via scripting, workflows, and automation (i.e., Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)).
- Leverage virtualization, IaaS/Paas, and Saas as a foundation to broker and deliver cloud and other services to the end customer.
Qualifications
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelors and two (2) years of experience; four (4) years of experience in lieu of degree.
Required Security Clearance:
- Secret clearance is required on first day of employment.
Required Certifications:
- CompTIA Security Plus Certification is required to begin work
Required Skills:
- Experience Terraform
- Strong communication skills and ability to work closely with customer in analyzing requirements
Nice to Have Skills:
- Application Migration
- SaaS delivery
- Automation (Terraform, SaltStack, Puppet & Ansible)
- Scripting (JavaScript, Powershell, Python & Ruby)
- REST API integration
- Git
- Practical knowledge of Agile and ITIL frameworks
Target salary range: $75,001 - $100,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
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