Cloud Engineer, Jr

Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Cloud Engineer, Jr 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 below skills and qualifications and be ready to handle all responsibilities independently and professionally.

• Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools to automate and optimize service deployments within development, test, and production systems

• Integrate with enterprise authentication services

• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc.)

• Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents

• Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage

• Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation along with maintaining documentation and ensuring continuity of recurring tasks

• Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing

• Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems

• Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion

• Participate in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings

• On-call support will be required

Clearance Required: TS/SCI with eligibility to obtain CI poly

Degree and Years of Experience: Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of years of experience and education.

• 3+ years of relevant experience

Desired Certifications: 

• Security+ Certification

Required Skills:

• Willing to learn cross-domain services available at customer agency
• A working understanding of TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Bash
• GitLab CI/CD pipelines, typically centered around deploying or updating applications/services in OpenShift or AWS
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps and software/application development processes
• Understanding of GitLab or other DevSecOps/Continuous Integration tools
• Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design

Desired Skills: 

• Multi-platform integration (connecting processes and services between AWS, GitLab, OpenShift, Nexus, Self Service)

• AWS serverless infrastructure components

• Background as a system administrator

• Cross Domain engineering

• AWS Diode

• Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.)

• Ability to write and use unit and functional testing

• Experience using Jira and Confluence

• Strong written and oral communication

• Customer engagement