Job Overview
This role involves developing scalable cloud-native solutions and ensuring best practices in architecture, development, deployment, and security for AWS cloud environments. It supports cloud operations, sustainment, and maintenance to enhance resiliency, security, and cost-effectiveness in a multi-cloud setup.
Responsibilities
- Perform cloud operations and engineering tasks to enhance, sustain, and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure AWS cloud solutions.
- Adopt and utilize DevSecOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks.
- Optimize application performance and reliability in cloud environments through development and sustainment activities.
- Design, implement, and sustain secure cloud architectures and networks, implementing zero-trust principles and defense-in-depth strategies.
- Maintain compliance with industry standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.) and regulatory requirements.
- Architect, implement, and maintain cloud networking security controls including STIG requirements.
- Implement identity and access management solutions and security monitoring frameworks.
- Support development of migration methodologies and ensure minimal organizational disruption during transitions.
- Utilize CI/CD workflows and infrastructure-as-code development using Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, and Guacamole to support DevSecOps practices.
- Containerize applications to enhance scalability and deployment efficiency.
- Support the design and development of Shared Services.
- Configure and troubleshoot cloud, virtual, and physical hardware and software systems.
- Establish and maintain SQL and NoSQL databases, ensuring their performance and reliability.
- Support preparation of detailed technical documentation of development and operational processes.
- Work in cross-functional teams including development, operations, security, and product management.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of experience, or Master’s degree and 2+ years of experience; additional experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
- Secret clearance required.
- US citizenship required.
- Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2).
- Practiced verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to participate in team efforts to accomplish assigned tasks.
- Demonstrated experience in cloud operations and sustainment, performing tasks described in responsibilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1.
- Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture.
- Capable of working in high-powered teams and maintaining positive interpersonal relationships while delivering products and services.
- Understanding of Active Directory, AWS AD, SAML, and related standards, procedures, and processes.
- Experience with Ansible, AWS console, Elastic, AWS, Jira, Confluence, Git, Bitbucket, and various cloud SaaS offerings for DEV/SEC/OPS pipeline development.
- Administration experience with cloud-based applications (MS O365, SharePoint, AWS AD, AWS).
- Experience administering Windows Server and related services.
