Cloud Application Engineer​/Technical Specialist​/Contractor

Overview

Provide services for infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and general IT support to enable the Enhanced Ontology Hub in the Product Lifecycle Digital Thread ("PLDT") initiatives. Participate in planning, definition of best practices, and collaborative meetings in support of these goals.

• Define the core infrastructure resources required to enable the Ontology Hub, i.e. compute resources, storage resources, networking resources.
• Co-design and build an effective architecture and environment in collaboration with the members of the PLDT and MBDT PCC teams (Tools & Data Integration, Solution Architecture).
• Support the Digital Thread (DT) Architect and Delivery Lead to engage technology providers and architect cloud-based application system designs (COTS/FOSS) compliant with applicable standards (NIST/DFARS).
• Drive the internal approvals (Legal, ITC, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure) for the infrastructure, applications and services to be deployed and support closure of the remediation actions.
• Deploy commercial software applications, Open Source Software, related IT components and code developed by the PLDT teams into AWS environment in support of the Ontology Hub.
• Enable delivery of virtual infrastructure deployment automation and Infrastructure as Code assets (e.g.
  Terraform / shell scripts
  ) and related technologies to enable deployments into multiple environments.
• Drive the use of "best practice” serverless technologies, methods, and tools for engineers within the PLDT teams.
• Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of Dev Sec Ops  tools and methodologies.
• Provide general IT support to the PLDT team / Ontology Hub users (Identity Mgmt, Network Access Requests, laptop deployments, etc.).

• 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in design, implementation and administration for hardware and systems portfolios.
• Experience with infrastructure compute, storage, cyber, and network technologies and resources.
• Experience working with systems configuration management, orchestration, and infrastructure as code with tools such as Ansible and/or Terraform
  .
• Experience designing and operating highly scalable, secure, high performing systems and platforms.
• Experience deploying new cloud native platforms and systems in highly hardened/secure environments.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Technologies, including the use of Infrastructure related AWS Services and related technologies such as VPC, IAM, EC2, EBS, S3, ECR, ECS, Lambda, AWS Backup, Cloud Watch, Systems Manager, Secrets Manager, Certificate Manager, Cloud Trail, Route
  53, Config, Event Bridge, KMS, SNS
  .
• Experience with integration and use of AWS services with custom developed applications, COTS and OSS.
• Advanced skills in Linux administration, configuration, and software installation.
• Prior experience in application management and release methodologies.
• Prior experience in application controls and compliance.
  • Experience with GT, Cyber and other rules for controls and logging, which are auditable.
• Experience of source code management e.g.
  Git
  .
• Excellent scripting skills in bash, Perl, Python and/or Ruby
  .
• Excellent communicator with the ability to work effectively across multiple business, IT and engineering teams.
• Ability to adjust quickly to changing priorities and make quick decisions with limited information.
• High level of motivation, self-starter, ability to demonstrate effective project management and completion of complex network tasks with little guidance.

• Demonstrated soft skills required for the presentation of ideas and concepts to stakeholders such as vendors, end users and senior management.
• Excellent verbal, written, communication, presentation and…