Cloud Engineer

Abile Group, Inc.

$110K — $130K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of IT experience
  • Clearance: TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Poly
  • DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification (e.g., Security+ CE, CCNA)
  • Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with A&A Team to enforce system security requirements
  • Enhance existing infrastructure for cost efficiency and service support
  • Document system processes and configurations
  • Manage AWS services including EC2, S3, Load Balancer, and RDS
  • Automate service deployments for efficiency
  • Deliver full-stack web applications, resolving operational issues
  • Engage in technical requirements gathering with clients
  • Independently design and implement application features
  • Refactor legacy code for better reliability
  • Mentor junior developers in best practices
  • Apply unit testing and code-quality analysis methodologies

Benefits

  • Work on a long-term contract (10 years) with a major Intelligence Community customer
  • Opportunity to engage in innovative design and engineering
  • Work across multiple networks and security domains globally
  • Collaborate in a team-centric environment
  • Potential for professional growth and skills development through mentorship
Full Job Description
Overview

Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Cloiud Engineer on a 10 year contract providing User Facing and Data Center Services supporting an Intelligence Community customer. All the personnel on the team will work together to support innovative design, engineering, procurement, implementation, operations, sustainment and disposal of user facing and data center information technology (IT) services on multiple networks and security domains, at multiple locations worldwide, to support the IC mission.

 

The right candidate will possess the belowskills and qualificationsand be ready to handle all responsibilities independently and professionally.

Responsibilities
  • Works with A&A Team to maintain security requirements for operation of systems.
  • Maintains and improves existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc).
  • Produces detailed documentation.
  • Maintains System in AWS environment using EC2, S3, Load Balancer, and RDS.
  • Automates and optimizes service deployments.
  • Delivers a full-stack web application to production; identifies and resolves operational issues.
  • Actively participates in technical requirements-gathering process (i.e. meetings with customers).
  • Executes design and implementation of application features, independently / unassisted, with minimal oversight.
  • Refactors legacy application code for improved reliability and maintainability.
  • Mentors junior developers.
  • Writes and reads unit tests; understanding code-quality analysis concepts.
  • Writes and debuggs Javascript, Typescript, or closely-related language.
  • Developes applications backed by a relational database; understanding RDB design concepts.
Qualifications

Clearance Required: TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Poly.

 

Degree and Years of Experience: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience

  • 8+ years IT experience

Required Certifications:

  • Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements including one of the following:  Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA

Desired Certifications:

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

Required Skills:

  • Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services.
  • Strong Troubleshooting skills.
  • Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl.
  • Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology.
  • Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools: GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus.
  • Extensive Typescript or Javascript background.
  • Angular frontend framework; UI/UX design.
  • Microservice-based backend architecture; integrating with COTS/FOSS software REST APIs.
  • Supporting a full-stack application in a PaaS environment.
  • CI/CD pipeline implementation, ideally with GitLab.
  • Creating and deploying containerized applications, ideally with Docker.
  • Designing/implementing container orchestration with Kubernetes.

Desired Skills:

  • Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI.
  • Experience working with one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, or Java).
  • Experience with Go programming language.
  • Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development.
  • Database experience with a Postgres backend.
  • Strong communication skills.

 

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