Cloud Operations Engineer - Senior

Location:

St. Louis, MO

Clearance Required:

Top Secret/SCI

Compass is looking for a motivated individual to provide operational services to the Intelligence Community (IC), the Department of War (DoW), and Federal communities. Our goal is to hire talented and passionate team members who desire to grow their skill sets, as well as the reputation of the company with our partners, clients, and stakeholders. We are looking for an individual to join an innovative team supporting mission critical/mission essential activities.

Professional IT certification training opportunities and assistance are available through Compass.

This position is contingent upon government action.

Clearance:
Active Top Secret/SCI

Locations:
St. Louis, MO

The MC&G Cloud Operations Engineer is responsible for maintaining cloud-based systems deployed in multiple AWS cloud environments. The candidate filling this position will work with different technologies, including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers, Relational Databases (RDS), Simple Storage Service (S3) storage, networking equipment, and other AWS Cloud computing components. The candidate will be responsible for all aspects of an HTML web based front end with a back-end AWS Aurora Database to include Information System Security (ISS) responsibilities.

Successful performance in this position requires strong scripting experience as well as experience using AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). The candidate will engage with and advise Government leadership on a wide range of IT topics and present necessary metrics data to Government customers in a multitude of formats to ensure mission continuity. The candidate must have strong verbal and technical writing skills.

• Assist the MC&G PEO Management staff, Program Managers and Team members as a Cloud SME on cloud engineering, cloud based systems management and security practices.
• Administer the overall MC&G Mission Domain cloud architecture, deployments, and operations across the compendium of MC&G Mission Domain-related programs, projects, pilots and initiatives.
• Work with the MC&G PEO Team to manage/plan migrations and/or transitions to, from, and between cloud environments.
• Coordinate cloud activities between MC&G PEO and other organizations to ensure alignment with NGA strategies, standards and practices.
• Maintain awareness of cloud services/solutions, emerging technology, cloud infrastructure, and approved offerings available to NGA.
• Produce and manage artifacts, specifications, and requirements as required by MC&G PEO.
• Work with Program Managers, engineers, and contractors to provide guidance/direction to establish items such as new Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), EC2, RDS, etc.
• Work with the business office, program manager, product owners to establish development, test, and/or operational budgets for MC&G projects.
• Maintain Linux Web servers as well facilitate deployment of servers into AWS Environments.
• Provide ISS Officer (ISSO) support to MC&G Systems.
• Manage and maintain transfer of Atlassian product data between multiple sites.
• Mange MySQL databases ensuring data is up to date as well as providing updates when necessary.
• Update HTML based web pages for data management for MC&G Dashboards.
• Produce and manage MC&G Mission Domain IT guidance, standards, and procedures.
• Be familiar with IC IT system accreditation within DOD environments. Support MC&G Mission Domain outage investigations and resolutions.
• Maintain Linux Web servers as well facilitate deployment of servers into AWS Environments.
• Provide briefings, briefing materials, and other reporting activities as required by MC&G PEO.
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