Cloud Engineer
Fairfax, VA 
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Job Description

In this role, you will be a member of the Cloud Management Platform & Services (CMPS) team responsible for maintaining and delivering key technologies streams for the service line multi-tenant and multi-cloud production-computing platform. Candidates for this role will be expected to adopt agile engineering methodologies, while providing operational excellence through automation, infrastructure as code, and devops, enabling continuous delivery of services to CMPS clients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
* Contribute to design and execute implementation for simple to complex cloud solutions that may include multi-region (multi-cloud) DR, high availability, complex application clustering, CSP service integration, identity, and access management
* Provide SME level expertise to CMPS Engineering, Security, and Operations, with a focus on AWS and supported operating systems.
* Adopt agile engineering methodologies to provide continuous delivery of services to clients
* Deliver timely and effective provisioning of new hosted clients ensuring the application technical architecture aligns with CMPS supported technologies
* Create, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot cloud networking design & infrastructure for AWS, OCI and environments
* Focus on operational excellent through automation, infrastructure as code, devops strategies, and process improvement
* Support current firewall configurations and troubleshoot advanced network related tickets
* Assess network security gaps and recommend solutions
* Perform scripting and coding for GovCloud environments as it relates to networking and AWS, and OCI
* Hand over implementations to sustainment and operations team
* Conduct release management and support for platform service line with proactive planning and reporting of infrastructure growth
* Support and enhance service line critical applications and services: DNS, SMTP, Active Directory, Terminal Services, Nagios, Nessus, SSH, Multi-Factor Authentication, Firewalls, CSP services
* Adopt subject matter expert role for service line key technologies: Virtualization, applications integration with Linux based operating systems (e.g. RedHat, Centos, OEL, Ubuntu), and MSWIN operating systems.
* Support cloud management services: Identity and Access Management, Security Groups, CSP native services and ensure alignment with CMPS supported technologies
* Provide inputs to application teams to ensure architecture meets environment security, audit compliance, performance requirements.

Minimum Qualifications
* At least four years' experience with one or more AWS, and Oracle, or Azure cloud provider experience for virtual deployments, hosting, and migration
* Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, or related field
* 4+ years' experience troubleshooting and debugging Microsoft Windows and Linux based operating systems in an administrative/support capacity
* Associate level cloud certification such as: AWS-CSA-A (AWS), MCSA Cloud Platform (MS Azure), or Professional Cloud Architect (GCP) (Professional is preferred)
* 5-7 years of experience working with infrastructures and 3-5 years of experience with one or more vendor cloud platforms
* Advanced experience in large scale system cloud architecture, design, and integration with a focus on infrastructure (operational support), storage, automation, networking, and virtualization
* Experience in developing basis of estimates and level of effort estimates for both implementation and sustainment scopes
* Familiarity with load balancing, firewalls, and networking
* Bash shell, PowerShell, and/or Python scripting experience
* Experience with Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar configuration management tools
* Per our Federal Government Contract, candidates must be U.S. Citizens with the ability to obtain a Secret Clearance

Other Job Specific Skills
* At least one certification in cloud server technology
* Experience with hosting, deploying and/or migrating with other commercial and federal government clouds - AWS, Oracle, Azure, Google Cloud Providers
* System recovery techniques, performance tuning, NIS
* Networking and exposure to firewall configuration and tuning
* Experience with FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, NIST800-171, DOD IL4, IL5 and/or IL6 security controls, continuous monitoring and assessment & authorization and other federal security standards and guidelines.
* Familiarity with PIV Integration, Terraform, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment experience (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)
* Bring a high sense of urgency for all tasks
* Strong multi-tasking abilities and able to provide timely responses
* Ability to be flexible and work analytically in a problem-solving environment
* Excellent customer service skills
* Ability to prioritize and complete tasks within schedule


EEO Requirements

It is the policy of ASM that an individual's race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation or national origin are not and will not be considered in any personnel or management decisions. We affirm our commitment to these fundamental policies.

All recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications is done without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, or age. All decisions on employment are made to abide by the principle of equal employment.

Physical Requirements

The physical requirements described in "Knowledge, Skills and Abilities" above are representative of those which must be met by an employee to successfully perform the primary functions of this job. (For example, "light office duties' or "lifting up to 50 pounds" or "some travel" required.) Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with qualifying disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform the primary functions.

Disclaimer

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.


Contingent Upon Experience
N/A
Full Time Telework
No-Travel Not Required
ASM Research is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, creed, ancestry, marital status, non-job-related handicap or disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

 

Job Summary
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Experience
1 to 4 years
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