Cloud Engineer

Job Overview

Mission Technologies, a division of HII, is seeking a Cloud Engineer 3 to support the Joint Training Synthetic Environment (JTSE) Joint Staff J7 contract onsite at our Suffolk, VA Joint Staff Complex.

• Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure on platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Provision and configure cloud resources, including compute, storage, networking, and databases, ensuring cost efficiency and performance.
• Automate provisioning of cloud resources using tools like Terraform, Cloud Formation, or Ansible.
• Implement best practices for cloud security.
• Collaborate with the security team to conduct vulnerability assessments and implement mitigation strategies.
• Set up monitoring tools to monitor cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Optimize resource allocation to improve performance and reduce costs.
• Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure issues, ensuring minimal downtime and maintaining high availability.
• Integrate cloud services with existing CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment processes.
• Automate infrastructure deployment and configuration management.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure repeatability, scalability, and consistency across environments.
• Collaborate with software engineers, operations, and security teams to ensure cloud infrastructure aligns with business needs.
• Provide technical guidance and support for teams working with cloud-based applications and services.
• Develop documentation and knowledge‑sharing resources for cloud infrastructure and processes.

• 5 years relevant experience with a Bachelors in a related field; 3 years relevant experience with a Masters in a related field; 0 years experience with a PhD or Juris Doctorate in a related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 9 years relevant experience.
• An active Secret security clearance is required.
• Experience with the Linux operating system.
• Experience in building and maintaining physical and virtual servers.
• Extensive experience with Gitlab, including merge requests and branching strategies.
• Experience with the Gitlab CI/CD process using pipelines and Gitlab Runners.
• Experience with developing, updating and maintaining Helm charts used for deploying containerized applications.
• Experience with image registries such as Artifactory, Harbor and/or Nexus.
• Extensive experience with container image tagging.
• Experience utilizing Hashi Corp Vault for secrets management.
• Experience utilizing JIRA ticketing systems.
• Experience with accurate and thorough documentation of processes utilizing Confluence.
• Experience with backend databases to include building, configuring, optimizing and maintaining as well as being able to view, manipulate and extract data from within the database.
• Possess the ability to maintain multiple application deployments across several separate network environments.
• Understands and determines sizing, capacity planning and requirements for infrastructure, network, and security in the cloud offering.
• Experience troubleshooting within cloud environments.
• Strong problem‑solving and troubleshooting abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work both in a team and individually.
• Solid organizational skills, including attention to detail.
• Self‑motivated and driven desire to succeed with minimal direction.

• Experience deploying applications in cloud infrastructures such as Azure or AWS.
• Experience using common development environments or languages such as Go and Python.
• Experience with deploying and managing Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience with Cybersecurity tools such as Trivy, Grype and Fortify.
• Knowledge of cluster security tools such as Istio.
• Experience with installing, maintaining and troubleshooting VMware infrastructure.
• Experience in maintaining an approved cyber posture on systems as well as applications.
• Experience with requesting, issuing, revoking and implementing SSL/TLS certificates.
• Experience with application data connections utilizing mTLS.
• Experience with ingress controllers.
• Experience deploying containerized applications utilizing ArgoCD.
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