Cloud Engineer

RCT Systems

Reston, VA, United States

21 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience required

1 year minimum

Working hours

Shift work

Job source

www.clearancejobs.com

Tech stack

Agile Methodology Amazon Web Services Application Firewall Systems Engineering Bash Shell Software as a Service Cloud Engineering Configuration Management Computer Programming Computer Networks Linux Groovy

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Subnetting Virtual Private Networks (VPN) Python (Programming Language) Network Security Cisco Nexus Switches Ansible Stemming Network Routers Scripting 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)