OverviewThe Cloud Engineer, supports the U.S. Army Product Lead Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Enterprise Systems and Services (PL ALTESS) commercial cloud services infrastructure. ALTESS is a managed service provider for Army and DoD IT systems and plans to offer managed cloud services in public clouds, MS Azure, AWS and Private Clouds.
Responsibilities
- Work with hosted customers to build their enclaves and provision their cloud resources using automation tools.
- Maintain the cybersecurity posture for the ALTESS infrastructure and any hosted customers’ enclaves e.g Produce STIG checklists, remediae findings on ACAS reports and any other approved cybersecurity tools, logging all appropriate data required for cybersecurity and cyber security services provider (CSSP) compliance, resolving commercial cloud produced cybersecurity findings, and application and monitoring of vendor security patches.
- Perform daily administrative tasks for the ALTESS and hosted customer enclaves using incidents and changes within the ALTESS IT service management (ITSM) tool
- Perform performance and availability monitoring of cloud resources.
- Monitor cloud burn daily for changes to forecasted spend and alert leadership of deviations.
Qualifications
Required:
- Experience in Computer Science or IT.
- CompTIA Security+.
- Security+ (Or equivalent IA cert) and computing environment certification (i.e. MCSD Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, etc.).
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience effectively managing multiple large-scale projects.
- Experience automating routine administrative tasks desired.
- Strong experience with IPSEC/VPN, and other secure transport technologies as well as Border Gateway Protocol.
- Proven experience migrating on-premises applications to the cloud.
- Understanding of network, storage, server, and application technologies.
- Strong knowledge of automation concepts, tools, and scripting languages (Ansible, Terraform, Python, Powershell, Bash, Puppet, Chef, etc.).
- Working knowledge of code repositories tools such as Git.
- Working knowledge of DoD STIGs, and IA Vulnerability Management (IAVM).
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline experience such as Jenkins, Travis CI, AWS Code Deploy.
Preferred:
- Senior IT experience in networking or equivalent experience.
