Cloud Engineer

Description

The Leidos Air Team team has an opening for an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to work on a cloud development and deployment team. The team is involved in the deployment and maintenance of multiple operational cloud deployed software solutions. A successful candidate will have experience across all AWS Environments and be able to provide analysis and recommendations for architectural and configuration updates.

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborates with teams in the design and implementation of AWS system architectures to include operational status and security of government systems (ATO).
• Reviews and provides input to system requirements based on cyber security posture.
• Compiles industry best practices and lessons learned into future iterations and new designs.
• Provides architectural analysis of cloud configurations and connections.
• Supports the Engineering Review Board, evaluating artifacts for architectural compliance.
• Provides broad-based experience in the systems engineering lifecycle and applies the experience to specific AWS cloud initiatives relating to architectural design and development.
• Resolves architecture implementation issues during integration and test.
• Provides support directly or through team management, including triaging system outages and ticket support resolution
• Advises and assists teams to deploy and configure collection services and tools with 99.9% up-time
• Works with team members to move data to the appropriate data stores and monitors dashboard metrics including costs, computational utilization and other future business needs
• Validates and manages government systems changes; create, run and validate end-to-end testing

Basic Qualifications

• Must possess and maintain a TS/SCI Security Clearance with ability to obtain Poly CI
• DoD 8570 Certification Compliance (IAT Level 2/3)
• Requires BS degree and & 5+ years’ experience consulting, designing and implementing distributed solutions and 3+ years’ experience with cloud-based solutions (Cloud, SOA, Web-Services) including virtualization environment, network and operating system experience OR 4 years of additional experience in lieu of degree
• Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, diagrams, etc.)
• Familiar with team collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, Rocket Chat)
• Experience in AWS/Cloud technologies
• Experience in Grafana
• Subject Matter Expertise understanding across AWS cloud technologies including: EC2, PaaS (Open Shift), Lamdas, S3 buckets, Reserved Instances, etc.
• Understanding of code baseline management
• Utilization of the following:
  Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Python, Gitlab, Cloud Formation, Zabbix, HPFortify, ACAS, PostgreSQL, Scrum, Kanban, Terraform
• Knowledge of Systems, Architectural, SW Development and SW Sustainment Practices
• Proactive self-starter demonstrates a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrates ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Organizational
  
  Skills:
  
  Can plan and prioritize work, follow tasks to their logical conclusion and ensure everything has been correctly satisfied to standard. Great attention to detail.
• Communications:
  Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently with team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of SFA organization;
  Aeronautical data and mission
• Experience with NGA cloud-based architecture
• AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer, Certifications
• Experience with IC Cloud Architecture implementation methodologies
• Native cloud templating services like AWS Cloud Formation
• Experience with Aeronautical datasets
• Experience with CI/CD Pipelines and projects
• Experience with Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) process of evaluating solution options

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