OverviewCloud Engineer
Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO
Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly
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 Cloud Engineer, supporting the NGA customer mission.
Responsibilities
What you get to do every day:
As the Cloud Engineer you will work with a highly functional development team automating service deployments; optimizing system performance; integrating with enterprise authentication services; establishing/improving system monitoring; maintaining established security protocols; provide customers technical support. You will be integrated with an agile environment participating with scrums and other meetings.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work with A&A Team to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
- Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc)
- Produce detailed documentation
- Maintain System in AWS environment using EC2, S3, Load Balancer, and RDS
- Automate and optimize service deployments
- Delivering a full-stack web application to production; identifying and resolving operational issues in same
- Actively participating in technical requirements-gathering process (i.e. meetings with customers)
- Executing design and implementation of application features, independently / unassisted, with minimal oversight
- Refactoring legacy application code for improved reliability and maintainability
- Mentoring junior developers
- Writing and reading unit tests; understanding code-quality analysis concepts
- Writing and debugging Javascript, Typescript, or closely-related language
- Developing applications backed by a relational database; understanding RDB design concepts
Qualifications
Clearance Required: Active TS clearance (with SCI Eligibility) and eligibility to obtain CI Poly
Certification Required: Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements including one of the following: Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA
Education/Experience:
- Requires 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 of experience
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
What is ideal:
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner preferred
- 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
- Intelligence Community Experience preferred
What you can expect from us
- 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 Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $122,000 - $147,000. Final compensation is unique to each individual and will be determined based on factors such as experience, education, geographic location, and contractual requirements. This is not a guarantee.
- Benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k), Paid Time Off, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more.
