Cloud Engineer - Infrastructure

CLOUD ENGINEER - Infrastructure

LOCATION: Remote - but occasional onsite support in DMV area may be required.

CLEARANCE LEVEL: None, but candidate needs to be clearable

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

The Cloud Engineer - Infrastructure is key to assisting the customer integrate and expand their cloud utilization in support of their mission.  You will recommend and design secure and optimized cloud solutions for a client needing to embrace cloud technology.  Your knowledge and experience will be used to build and enhance highly visible solutions for a government client.  You will be incorporated into a talented team with a track record of success and a variety of projects in flight.

• Understand and leverage cloud automation tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform to provision and manage approved cloud baselines
• Work with Infrastructure as Code managed in Git-based repositories and CI/CD tooling
• Provision cloud accounts for new customers using cloud automation tools
• Provide customer support for cloud application owners
• Help cloud customers navigate the cloud governance process
• Advise cloud customers on their cloud architectures to ensure they plan properly and are aware of agency-specific constraints
• Help estimate cloud costs working with customers
• Troubleshoot issues within the cloud layer
• Help design, authorize and implement custom permissions
• Work across unclassified, secret, and top secret cloud environments
• Evaluate, document, and test new cloud services as they become available
• Experience with designing, developing, deploying, or delivering using automation techniques or tools, including Ansible or Git
• Knowledge of cloud and virtualization-based technologies, including Docker, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware, or OpenShift
• Experience with troubleshooting Linux, including RHEL, UNIX, networking, scripting and automation, systems administration functions, or application troubleshooting

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education/Experience requirements:
  • Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science, MIS, Mathematics, or other scientific degree) with 5 to 8 years of directly related hands-on experience
• Relevant cloud certification(s)

Desired Qualifications:

• Primarily Azure Cloud experience
• Strong organizational, time-management, analytical and troubleshooting skills are a must
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Experience with creating automation of deployment and/or configuration tasks with IaC tools including Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, or GitLab
• Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, or GCP Certification
• Knowledge of SQL Server database design, security, optimization, backup and recovery
• Knowledge of SQL Server (Azure and On-Premises)
• Knowledge of SQL Server Integration Services
• Knowledge of SQL, TSQL, Stored Procedures, Indexes, Views, Materialized Views
• Strong Demonstrated knowledge of Azure Data Factory
• Experience with Azure Storage, Azure Data Lakes, Synapse, and HDInsight

Other:

Plus3 IT Systems is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.  We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact hr@plus3it.com [include name and/or department, telephone, and e-mail address].

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