S Azure​/aws Cloud Engineer; SMX

SMX is actively searching for an Azure/AWS Cloud Engineer to support our government client in Huntsville, AL.

This role emphasizes operational excellence, championed by a commitment to quality, articulate communication, client success, and measurable results, aligning with the essential duties and required skills for the position.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Experience working in an Agile IT environment establishing a cloud-based technology in a government provided hybrid cloud environment with security, performance, operability, and scale for customers

Support and facilitate the customer cloud strategy to utilize DoD approved cloud service providers to provide information technology services and capabilities to include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Data as a Service (DaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) and Cloud Service Offerings (CSOs) within the Agency supported cloud architecture

Define and engineer solution capabilities that satisfy customer business drivers / requirements

Act as a trusted advisor and Cloud SME for technical decisions during client engagements. Develop courses of action using innovative and Cloud best practices

Perform architecture, design, and requirements analysis using systems engineering. Focus on cloud-native services and optimizing the customer landscape through adoption of these services

Develop and utilize deployment and process automation capabilities (scripts, applications, platforms, cloud native services, APIs) to ensure processes are defined, repeatable, scalable, and able to be published for wider utilization; may include capabilities such as Ansible, Power Shell, Bash, Python, etc.

Utilize Dev Sec Ops  capabilities utilizing IaC tools (Terraform, Cloud Formation, etc) to Operate and sustain a fully integrated Dev Sec Ops  environment to support development, test and deployment of infrastructure and applications utilizing Ci/CD pipelines

Take ownership of issues and act with a high sense of urgency when required providing direct support to customers providing advanced technical support, troubleshooting direction, and complex problem resolution.

Produce clear and concise documentation including program-level, design artifacts, as-built documents, and user level documentation to fully capture technical baselines and operational capabilities to guide operations and activities associated to enterprise scale cloud environments.

Required Skills/

Experience:

Clearance Required:

Secret Bachelor's degree and 12 years of experience providing cloud-related support 4 additional years of experience may be substituted for the degree requirement Hands-on experience with and knowledge of both Microsoft Azure and AWSMust have a DoD 8570/8140 aligned certification such as CompTIA Security+Delivery experience and working knowledge utilizing key Department of Defense guidance and governance including DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide, Risk Management Framework (RMF), and Secure Cloud Computing Architecture (SCCA)
Skills in delivery areas of Cloud, IT Infrastructure, Architecture, and Security as well as hands on core system administration skills in Linux or Windows Problem determination skills from design issues through detail level inspection to determine root causes of issue

Core System Administration skills in Linux or Windows with demonstrated skills in Security, Active Directory, ACAS, Identity and Access Management, Zero Trust, and STIG remediation experience

Extensive knowledge of, and hands on with, DoD Enterprise networks and understanding how those solutions translate to a cloud environment

Experience with Infrastructure as Code using appropriate tooling

Understanding of Kubernetes (EKS), ECS, and Docker…