Cloud Engineer

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. Key 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

Eligibility/Clearance: Candidate must possess an active TS/SCI clearance and be willing to obtain a CI Polygraph, AWS serverless infrastructure components

• Willing to learn cross-domain services available at NGA
• 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 Preferred:

• 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 Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related technical field (or equivalent