Cloud Engineer

Req : 40702

Summary

Cloud Engineer

Alexandria, VA

Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employers core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level!

The Cloud Engineer will lead and work with a team of Tier III system administrators to manage the Army Geospatial Centers (AGC) current and future cloud-based applications, including Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions hosted in the Gov Cloud (cArmy AWS IL4) environment, as well as lead the migration of data and applications. This Cloud Engineer will also provide Tier III support for other AGC-supported on-premises systems and networks as needed, collaborate closely with the cross-functional team comprised of cybersecurity, system administrators, and desktop support to perform and report on continuous monitoring, vulnerability management and remediation, review, maintain and update security controls, POAM milestones, and compliance, ensure application of DISA quarterly STIG releases and STIG results analysis.

Responsibilities

• Perform system administration support and cloud engineering to support AGCs Impact Level 4 systems hosted in the Gov Cloud environment
• Develop and maintain architecture requirements, evaluation of candidate cloud services, metrics, supporting documentation, and final reference architecture documents
• Work with the IA team to obtain cloud accreditation approval under the Risk Management Framework (RMF)
• Perform technical reviews of architecture and design artifacts for consistency with United States Army, DoD, and NIST policy, as well as alignment with system requirements
• Install, support, and maintain hardware and software infrastructure according to best practices, industry standards, and/or customer/organizational requirements, including firewalls/security groups, servers, and storage systems
• Apply appropriate Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and provide the check reports with explanations of the results in a government-approved format by DoD, and apply and maintain IAVM, SARs, CTO, and other applicable directive compliance by timelines as specified
• Support and maintain the operating systems, patches, upgrades, and apply Cyber Security requirements for systems
• Diagnose problems, solve issues, and provide lessons learned
• Implement the necessary controls and procedures to protect information systems assets from intentional or inadvertent modification, disclosure, destruction, or security compromise
• Provide network and host-based security, incident response, and log collection and analysis as needed
• Perform regular patches of supported systems and remediate open vulnerabilities
• Assist in the development of guidelines and procedures for administration and security best practices
• Monitor resource usage, anticipate problems, and suggest solutions
• Manage production systems and provide higher-level technical support (Tier III) to clients when needed
• Work closely with colleagues to meet team goals and improve processes and practices
• Create and maintain documentation of the systems
• Manage, operate, maintain, and administer Windows IIS and SQL database, bastion host firewall production, test, and staging environments, including configuration, deployment, troubleshooting, and maintenance
• Provide software and hardware support to the customer development team
• Setup offsite disaster recovery environment
• Review system and security logs and report to the team regarding incidents or potential threats to the network environment, systems, users, or infrastructure
• Monitor the production environment and report any code/security-related issues to the development team
• Open and close service requests and act as the primary interface with Army technical support to resolve technical problems in the Gov Cloud environment
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• BA or BS degree in Information Technology or similar OR
• High school diploma or GED equivalent and 8+ years of related experience, OR an equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted
• AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred, or other similar AWS certifications are required within 90 days of hire
• DoD 8140/8570.01-M Baseline IA at IAT II or higher: CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSE, Security+ CE, or SSCP
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred

Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

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• Ability to work 100% on customer site (no telework)
• AWS hands-on engineering experience and formal training in AWS cloud solutions are required
• Knowledgeable in application transport and network infrastructure protocols (SSL/TLS, DNS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, HTTP/S, SMTP, and Microsoft AD), and…