Cloud Engineer

The Essential Duties and Responsibilities are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed for this position and are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job. Other duties may be assigned. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position., * Provide guidance across data, compute, storage, network, virtualization, containerization, and security, and help transform the organization to take advantage of DevSecOps, CI/CD, and Agile methodologies.

• Develop architecture for cloud environments.
• Promote DevOps engineering principles throughout the portfolio.
• Assess cloud architectures for scalability, security, resilience, and mission alignment.
• Use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative technical solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems, driving data-driven decisions.
• Evaluate analytics from the cloud environment to make recommendations for improvements and optimization.
• Provide technical advisory to leadership, engineers, and cybersecurity SMEs.
• Ensure cloud solutions are secure, interoperable, and compliant with engineering, cybersecurity, and program requirements., * This position is not subject to federal requirements regarding Department of Transportation “safety-sensitive” functions.

Necessary Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this role. Employees must always maintain a constant state of mental alertness. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential and marginal functions may require maintaining physical condition necessary for bending, stooping, sitting, walking, or standing for prolonged periods of time; most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position with frequent opportunity to move about.

Work Environment

The work environmental characteristics described here are representative of those that must be borne by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the role. Employees must always maintain a constant state of situational awareness. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This job is performed in an office setting with exposure to computer screens and requires extensive use of a computer, keyboard, mouse, and multi-line telephone system. The work described herein is primarily a modern office setting. Typical work hours are 7:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. (Central Time). Job may require additional hours. Work hours may change at Management’s discretion with or without prior notice.

Additional Qualifying Factors

As a condition of employment, you will be required to pass a pre-employment drug screening and have acceptable background check results. If applicable to the contract, you must also obtain and maintain the appropriate clearance levels required and must also be able to obtain access to military installations.

• Education Requirements: A Bachelor’s degree or seven years of equivalent experience.
• Level of Experience Requirements: 15-20 years of technical infrastructure and/or systems engineering experience.
• Seven years of experience in all aspects of cloud computing (compute, storage, platforms, data, and security).
• Proven track record in implementing large-scale cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience in cloud computing-based services architecture, technical design, and implementations, including IaaS and PaaS.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must have or be able to attain a SECRET security clearance.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics

• Deep knowledge of AWS, Azure, Oracle, or Google Cloud, with experience in large-scale deployments.
• Strong knowledge of cloud cost optimization techniques.
• Experience in one or more automation languages (CLI, Python, Ruby, PowerShell).
• Strong knowledge of Direct Connect, Private Link, VPN, and other public cloud connectivity solutions.
• Thorough understanding of infrastructure automation, CI/CD, networking, storage, and cloud-based delivery models.
• Strong knowledge of networking and web standards such as DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP, web security, and firewalls.
• Highly experienced in autoscaling, load balancing, and disaster recovery (DR) cloud computing models.
• Experience with SSO/Federation.
• Working knowledge of configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, and Ansible).
• Thorough understanding of cloud-native, vendor-agnostic, and cloud-ready application development.
• Thorough understanding of cloud governance.
• Strong working knowledge of cloud monitoring tools, application performance monitoring tools, and operational dashboarding.

Preferred

• Agile development experience.
• Active SECRET security clearance

Arcticom LLC provides network and systems administration, enterprise architecture and resource planning, certification and accreditation, software design, programming, maintenance of telecommunications and land mobile radio equipment and systems, help desk support and IT transformation services among other services.