Cloud Engineer

NorthHill Technology Resources has a need for a Cloud Engineer to support a Federal Program in Springfield, VA. This is a direct-hire role with our client, a fast-growing Federal Integrator. An active TS/SCI Clearance is required, will sponsor for CI Polygraph within first year.

Cloud Engineer The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for working with highly functional development team automating service deployments; optimizing system performance; integrating with enterprise authentication services; establishing/improving system monitoring; maintaining established security protocols; provide customers technical support. The Cloud Engineer will be integrated with an agile environment participating with scrums and other meetings.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

Work with A&A Team to maintain security requirements for operation of systems Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc) Produce detailed documentation Maintain System in AWS environment using EC2, S3, Load Balancer, and RDS Automate and optimize service deployments Delivering a full-stack web application to production; identifying and resolving operational issues in same Actively participating in technical requirements-gathering process (i.e. meetings with customers) Executing design and implementation of application features, independently / unassisted, with minimal oversight Refactoring legacy application code for improved reliability and maintainability Mentoring junior developers Writing and reading unit tests; understanding code-quality analysis concepts Writing and debugging Javascript, Typescript, or closely-related language Developing applications backed by a relational database; understanding RDB design concepts WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience 8+ years IT experience Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements including one of the following: Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA Required Skills:

Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services Strong Troubleshooting skills Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools: GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus Extensive Typescript or Javascript background Angular frontend framework; UI/UX design Microservice-based backend architecture; integrating with COTS/FOSS software REST APIs Supporting a full-stack application in a PaaS environment CI/CD pipeline implementation, ideally with GitLab Creating and deploying containerized applications, ideally with Docker Designing/implementing container orchestration with Kubernetes Desired Skills:

Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI Experience working with one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, or Java) Experience with Go programming language Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development Database experience with a Postgres backend Strong communication skills Desired Certifications:

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner