Cloud Engineer

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Onsite Customer locations:
Virginia Beach, VAtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Yesterday job requisition :
JR101118

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.

Cloud Engineer The Cloud Engineer will have an active role in helping design, plan and implement secure cloud migrations as well as adopt new cloud technologies to support business and project needs.

This role will provide technical support on major tasks or technology assignments, support for multi-cloud environments, infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques including application migrations to cloud platforms and implement scalable and reliable cloud based, multi-tenant, multi–Cloud Service Provider solutions examples are Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure (this list is not all-inclusive). These platforms will support both traditional and containerized instances

Duties/Responsibilities include (This list is not all inclusive):
* Building cloud instances based off of system and mission requirements
* Develop laC methodology to define and implement on-prem and cloud infrastructure components such as physical hardware, virtual machines, storage, core roles, and network configurations.
* Utilize laC tools like Terraform, Ansible, and AWX to provision and manage infrastructure across multiple platforms (on-prem or cloud).
* Implement standardized configurations, best practices, and automation for infrastructure deployments, ensuring scalability, security, and consistency
* Integrate lac code with CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure provisioning, updates, and maintenance during development and deployment cycles.
* Ensure seamless and consistent infrastructure management across various environments (dev, test, production).
* Collaborate with the development team to facilitate smooth infrastructure provisioning as part of the development lifecycle.
* Research, design, install, configure, and deploy platform products in high availability infrastructure to support all products and applications.
* Responsible for delivering cloud solutions, both laaS and PaaS, that enables the business to run sensitive workloads within a cloud environment securely.
* Create and install cloud computing solutions in accordance with user requirements
* Automate cloud system operations to enhance efficiency and speed
* Developing, establishing and implementing modular cloud-based applications
* Resolving technical issues and documenting them
* Creating strategies for enhancing the performance of existing cloud technology
* Maintaining applications and infrastructure for cloud-based platforms
* Training IT team members to use different cloud computing technologies
* Creating instructions for cloud computing operations and their documentation
* Maintaining, updating, and refining documentation
* Designing, developing and deploying modular cloud-based systems
* Research, design, install, configure, and deploy platform products in high availability infrastructure to support all products and applications.

Certification Requirements:
* DoDD 8570.01-M IAT
* DoDM 8140.03 CYBERSPACE WORKFORCE QUALIFICATION AND
* Microsoft Certified Expert in the Azure product line OR
* AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Above OR
* Google Associate Cloud Engineer or Above OR
* Microsoft Certified Azure Dev Ops Engineer Expert OR
* Microsoft Certified:
Azure Solutions Architect Expert Experience Requirements:
* 3-5 years of hands-on experience on the leading cloud platforms (such as Azure, Amazon, Google) developing/implementing service models (ex. laaS, PaaS, or SaaS)
* Designing and implementing lac solutions using tools like Terraform, Cloud Formation, or Ansible.
* Familiarity with Container Platforms such as Docker, Open Shift and other emerging technologies
* Familiarity with Infrastructure and Platform Automation Technologies and Tools such as Puppet, Ansible, AWS, Azure, GCP based technologies.
* Experience in building and operating financial control and analysis systems (cloud cost analysis, showback, and chargeback)
* Experience understanding how cloud resources are tagged
* Experience providing suggestions about cost optimizations
* Mentors and coaches colleagues and seeks opportunities for continuous improvement
* Comfortable working in cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams
* Ability to work independently and as part of a team
* Ability to create and maintain a project plan in a multi-cloud environment
* Good…