Overview

Senior Cloud Engineer

Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO (hybrid role)

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 governments mission and our clients business? Do you have a desire to change how people work? Are you interested in helping to protect our nations cyber interests? Join our growing team as a Senior Cloud Engineer, supporting the NGA customer mission.

Responsibilities What you get to do every day:

In this role, youll join our Common Operations Release Environment (CORE) team, providing high-quality, cost-effective cloud solutions to our clients. Be part of a dynamic environment where your expertise in cloud operations will drive significant enhancements in the efficiency and effectiveness of our customers operations. As a Cloud Engineer on our team, you will be responsible for distributed and managed services automating the installation, configuration and maintenance of platform services.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities:

• Maintain and improve existingbuild 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 controland 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
• On-call support will be required

Qualifications

Clearance Required: Active TS clearance (with SCI Eligibility) and eligibility to obtain CI Poly

Education/Experience:

• Requires Bachelors degree
• 5+ years of experience

Required Skills:

• AWS serverless infrastructure components
• Willingness to learn cross-domain services available at NGA
• A working understanding of TypeScripe, 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 infrastructurecomponents, load balances, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructuredesign

What is ideal?

• Background as a system administrator
• Cross Domain engineering
• AWS Diode
• Security+ Certification
• Undersatnding of access management and security groups (I.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.)
• Ability to write and use unit and fuctional testing
• Experience using Jira and Confluence
• Strong written and oral communication
• Customer engagement
• 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
• Youll 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: $148,000-$179,000. 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.