Cloud Engineer, Sr.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions to support mission-critical operations. In this role, you will be responsible for automating the installation, configuration, and maintenance of cloud-based platform services, improving operational efficiency, system reliability, and overall performance. Specific Duties and 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.

• AWS serverless infrastructure components.
• Willing to learn cross-domain services available at customer agency.
• 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.
• 8+ years of relevant experience.

Desired Skills:

• 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