Junior Cloud Engineer

Junior Cloud Engineer

Springfield, VA or St. Louis (hybrid)

Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly

Security+ (preferred)

At Bcore, our strength comes from how we deliver impact to the mission. Whether it's architecting critical IT solutions, producing actionable intelligence, or developing cutting edge technology, we succeed because of the expertise, collaboration, and agility of our teams. Our Mission Services division combines enterprise IT, cloud solutions, Dev Sec Ops , systems engineering, software development, and operational support. Bcore accelerates decisive advantage for warfighters and intelligence professionals by fusing human insight, rapid-fire engineering, precision-measured outcomes, and relentless grit into mission-ready solutions.

Do you want to join a team that is building tailored technical solutions to modernize our government's mission and our client's business? Do you have a desire to change how people work? Are you interested in helping to protect our nation's cyber interests? Join our growing team as a Junior Cloud Engineer, supporting the NGA customer mission.

In this role, you'll join our Common Operations Release Environment (CORE) team, providing high-quality, cost-effective cloud solutions to our clients. Be part of a dynamic environment where your expertise in cloud operations will drive significant enhancements in the efficiency and effectiveness of our customer's operations. As a Cloud Engineer on our team, you will be responsible for distributed and managed services automating the installation, configuration and maintenance of platform services.

Specific

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools to automate and optimize service deployments within development, test, and production systems
• Integrate with enterprise authentication services
• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc.)
• Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents
• Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage
• Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation along with maintaining documentation and ensuring continuity of recurring tasks
• Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing
• Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
• Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion
• Participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings
• On-call support will be required

Clearance Required: Active TS clearance (with SCI Eligibility) and eligibility to obtain CI Poly

Certification

Required:

Security+ (preferred)

Education/

Experience:

• 3+ years of experience

Required Skills:

• Willing to learn cross-domain services available at customer agency
• A working understanding of Type Script, JavaScript, Python, Bash
• Git Lab CI/CD pipelines, typically centered around deploying or updating applications/services in Open Shift or AWS
• Strong understanding of Dev Sec Ops  and software/application development processes
• Understanding of Git Lab or other Dev Sec Ops /Continuous Integration tools
• Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design

What is ideal?

• Multi-platform integration (connecting processes and services between AWS, Git Lab, Open Shift, Nexus, Self Service)
• AWS serverless infrastructure components
• Background as a system administrator
• Cross Domain engineering
• AWS Diode
• Security+ Certification
• Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.)
• Ability to write and use unit and functional testing
• Experience using Jira and Confluence
• Strong written and oral communication
• Customer engagement
• Intelligence Community Experience preferred

• Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by bcore through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses
• You'll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community
• The expected salary range within the…