Principal Cloud Engineer

Principal Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities

• Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code first approach with sufficient comments and structure
• Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions
• Diagnosing and resolving complex performance, security, and/or technical challenges
• Supporting all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams
• Identifying opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities
• Creating/updating cloud environment configurations within Kion to establish/support application workloads, including:
• Azure Focused:
  Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls
• AWS Focused:
  Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, Cloud Front, and Route
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Required Qualifications

• 12+ years experience in information technology with 8+ years of focused, hands on experience deploying/configuring workloads within either AWS or Azure – preferred experience is Dev Ops focused
• Professional Architect Certification within either AWS or Azure
• Hands-on experience installing, configuring, upgrading, and administering Kion in AWS environments, including organizational units, account structures, projects, compliance scores, financial guardrails, and cloud provider integrations (AWS, Azure, OCI, and GCP).
• Experience with AWS Fin Ops tools, including AWS Billing Conductor, Cost Explorer, cloud cost allocation, and identifying resource waste and cost optimization opportunities.
• Hands-on experience developing AWS Cloud Formation Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates for automated infrastructure deployment.
• Experience managing and optimizing AWS services, including Amazon ECS, Application Load Balancers (ALB), and Amazon RDS, with responsibility for scaling, high availability, patching, and performance optimization.
• Experience managing AWS Commercial and Gov Cloud environments across multiple regions.
• Understanding of FedRAMP requirements, cloud governance, and cloud engineering best practices in AWS and multi-cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with Dev Ops, Cloud Engineering, and cross-functional teams to deliver cloud solutions.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, including sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, and operational best practices across enterprise cloud environments.

We are seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to join our team.

Tek Synap is a fast-growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. "Technology moving at the speed of thought" embodies these principles – the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.

We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays.

Work Environment and Physical Demands

• Location:
  
  Washington, DC
• Type of environment:
  Office
• Noise level:
  Medium
• Work schedule:
  
  Schedule is day shift Monday – Friday. May be requested to work evenings and weekends to meet program and contract needs.
• Amount of Travel:
  Less than 10%

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential…