Senior Cloud Engineer

Overview
Senior Cloud Engineer Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO (hybrid)

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 Senior Cloud Engineer, supporting the NGA customer mission.

Responsibilities What you get to do every day: 

In this role, you'll 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 and Responsibilities:

• 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
• Participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings
• On-call support will be required

Qualifications

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

 

Education/Experience:

• 8+ years of experience

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

What is ideal?

• Background as a system administrator

• Cross Domain engineering

• AWS Diode

• Security+ Certification

• 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

• 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: $148,000-$185,000. 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.