Cloud Engineer

RCT Systems
Reston, United States of America
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Shift work
Languages
English
Experience level
Junior

Job location

Reston, United States of America

Tech stack

Agile Methodologies
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Application Firewall
Systems Engineering
Bash
Software as a Service
Cloud Engineering
Configuration Management
Computer Programming
Computer Networks
Linux
Groovy
Subnetting
Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
Python
Network Security
Cisco Nexus Switches
Ansible
Stemming
Network Routers
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Cloud Platform System
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Firewalls (Computer Science)
Cloudformation
Puppet
Terraform
Jenkins

Job description

This position is for a Systems Engineer for a technical development program supporting two Cloud-based applications, and their associated cloud infrastructures located on a secure network. The Systems Engineer will work with a large team of developers, software engineers, cybersecurity engineers, database administrators, and system architects. The systems engineer will be required to carry a duty phone on a rotational basis (once they have one year of experience on the team), and may need to come in to address system issues that arise. Core business hours are typically from 9 AM - 3 PM, five days a week. Hours can be flexible for either early arrivals, and/or late departures. *** Applicants for this position are expected to have significant, hands-on systems engineering experience. ***

Primary Responsibilities

  • Ensure designs are compatible with target architecture and consistent requirements allocated to segments

  • Integrate systems and services for firewall and network components

  • Working with the team's security engineer to address and mitigate security findings stemming from system security scans

  • Linux OS configuration, patching, and maintenance

  • Identify and suggest risk mitigation techniques

Requirements

  • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

  • Typically requires a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree and relevant experience as follows:

o Expert: 11-16 years of demonstrable experience

  • Strong, hands-on experience with Linux (CLI)

  • Experience with scripting and programming languages like BASH and Python

  • Experience in working on teams utilizing Agile workflows and processes

  • Hands on experience with scripting

Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience working with CloudFormation / Puppet / Groovy, or other configuration and automation tools

  • Network engineering troubleshooting between Cloud environments and non-Cloud environments

  • Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions such as Ansible / Terraform, or other configuration and automation tools

  • Solid understanding of Web Application Firewall (WAF) configuration and management

  • Experience with networking (e.g., ports, routing tables, subnets, VPNs, firewalls, routers, etc.) to include design, integration and troubleshooting issues

  • Experience in working in a cloud-based environment (AWS)

  • Experience with the installation, configuration of AIDE and other configuration management alerting capabilities

  • Experience with maintaining COTS products (e.g., Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), Nexus, Jenkins)

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