Cloud Engineer

Title: Cloud Engineer

Location: Alexandria, VA

Clearance: TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Description: The Cloud Engineer provides technical cloud engineering delivery leadership supporting a WAN/LAN transformation driven by a Telco-based approach. Responsible for designing, developing, and collaborating on new initiatives to increase customer network stability, reliability, and interoperability using a Hybrid and Multi-cloud architecture and a GitOps approach.

Job Details:

• Match customer requirements to advanced capabilities in the VNF/CNF space


• Implement, maintain, and design hybrid multi-cloud environments


• Design, develop, build, and deploy highly scalable, fault-tolerant, elastic and secure cloud-based and distributed services


• Lead decisions about cloud, non-cloud, and hybrid environments


• Administer prototype environments to compare other architectures and recommend styles that balance competing tradeoffs


• Document cloud environments for internal and customer needs (architecture, costs, CI/CD design, testing, etc.)


• Build end-to-end user service-oriented products, testing and integrating them with a mixture of distributed COTS and Open Source custom applications


• Work with various cloud-based architectures (public, private, and hybrid)


• Integrate external and internal cloud systems with non-cloud on-premise networks, allowing for secure communication between the systems in support of WAN and LAN transformation efforts

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institute in an area applicable to the position; an additional 4 years of may be substituted in lieu of a degree


• Minimum of eight (8) years of directly related experience in addition to education level


• Experience in WAN/LAN, Telco, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments


• Experience with containerization platforms and cloud-native technologies


• Ability to concentrate on a wide range of loosely defined complex situations, which require creativity and originality, where guidance and counsel may be unavailable


• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management tooling such as Terraform and Ansible


• Background in Linux/Unix administration


• Experience with working in DoD environments and with the authorization process


• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and DevSecOps for designing, developing, and delivering using appropriate automation techniques or tools


• Ability to work through challenging security requirements and maintain compliance


• Must possess current DoD 8570 IAT/IAM III certification; AWS Cloud OR Microsoft Azure OR VMWare OR Red Hat OpenShift desired


• Current active TS/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph