Cloud Engineer, Sr.

Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Cloud Engineer, Sr. 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.

• Maintains and improves existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools to automate and optimize service deployments within development, test, and production systems.
• Integrates with enterprise authentication services.
• Maintains and improves existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc).
• Manages and aggregates server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents.
• Monitors and analyzes system performance, such as server load and resource usage.
• Applies configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation along with maintaining documentation and ensuring continuity of recurring tasks.
• Enforces best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing.
• Works with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems.
• Follows up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion.
• Participants in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings.
• On-call support will be required.

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

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

• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Security+ Certification.

Required Skills:

• AWS serverless infrastructure components.
• Willing to learn cross-domain services available at customer agency.
• A working understanding of TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Bash.
• Multi-platform integration (connecting processes and services between AWS, GitLab, OpenShift, Nexus, Self Service).
• 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:

• 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.