Cloud Systems Engineer- 3017369

Computer Technologies Consultants (CTC) is seeking an early to mid‑career level Cloud Systems Engineer to support our clients’ team in San Diego, CA.

With offices in Washington DC and San Diego, CA, CTC is a leading technology company providing lifecycle IT, data analytics, cloud, agile software development, Dev Ops, test automation, cyber security, and infrastructure solutions. Additionally, we provide professional talent acquisition services as we proudly support the unique needs of U.S. defense, intelligence and federal civilian agencies as well as Fortune 1000 companies.

• Full time opportunity
• Competitive Salary
• Work for an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services

We are seeking an early to mid‑career level Cloud Systems Engineer for our Operations, Infrastructure & Support Engineering Group that will focus on building and maintaining the tooling and infrastructure used to automate the release, deployment and upgrade processes for base cloud infrastructure. This individual will work on developing the automated pipelines for cloud environments as well as providing consulting services to application and infrastructure teams specific to automated build, test and release automation.

This role will be responsible for the operations and operating environment for the Dev Ops platforms and will drive troubleshooting efforts around incidents and outages.

• Designing, writing and delivering infrastructure as code software to improve the availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of the cloud environment
• Developing jobs for the deployment of various artifacts that support a continuous, security‑updated environment
• Participating in design and architecture discussions and build environments using infrastructure as code with Terraform and configuration management tools like Ansible
• Automating repetitive tasks to eliminate toil and drive consistency and repeatability
• Incident response and root‑cause analysis, support a blameless post‑mortems culture

As a Cloud Systems Engineer, you will have a direct role in providing infrastructure services to our development environment. Engineers are the lifeblood of our clients’ company and they’re more than 5,000 strong. With our robust offering of educational and career development opportunities, your chances to grow are limitless.

• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or Information Technology and 4+ years direct experience
• Security+ Certification or the ability to obtain certification within 3 months of hiring
• Experience working in a security culture
• Experience working with appropriate scripting languages and operating systems software (e.g., Power Shell, Bash)
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform or equivalent configuration management tools
• Should have flexibility in approach to finding solutions, ability to understand and act on customer needs and priorities, and ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Strong team building skills that enable collaboration and coordination within and across teams and functions
• Ability to automate menial tasks
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Azure, AWS or similar cloud provider experience

• Top Secret/SCI with polygraph clearance
• Security+ Certification

• Must have an active Top Secret/SCI clearance. Candidates with Top Secret/SCI and polygraph are preferred.

Full‑time Salary Range: $90k – $155k

Please note:

This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications such as skills, education and experience.

• 401(k) matching
• Accident and hospital indemnity insurance
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee…