Associate Cloud Engineer (Top Secret Clearance)

Are you looking to combine your passion for technology with your penchant for strategic problem solving? Appian Customer success is obsessed with great customer outcomes. We deliver mission-critical business impact fast, and are directly responsible for partnering with our customers to bring their best ideas to life. Joining the Customer Success team will provide you with the support and growth you need to strengthen and evolve your skills within the consulting field.

Appian is looking for an Associate Cloud Engineer (Internally referred to as "Associate Architect") to scale Appian’s technical solutions and work alongside Appian’s delivery teams. As an Associate Architect, you will be an Appian technical leader within our Federal Customer Success team as well as an advisor to Appian’s clients. In this role, not only do you become an expert at installing, operating, and scaling the Appian platform, but you will also be scaling business process applications on our software. You will become a business process expert in the various industries of our clients. The ideal candidate will combine Appian technical, product and business skills to make our customers successful.

To be successful in this role, you need:

• Ability to provide exceptional customer interaction (verbal, written, face-to-face)  

• Systems administration (e.g. Linux, Windows) experience with IaaS Solutions (egs.: Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Engine, or Microsoft Azure) and cloud computing. Administering and managing an on-prem installation of an Appian environment is a huge plus.

• Administration of one or more RDMS platforms (e.g. MySql, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Postgres, MariaDB)

• Programming / scripting (e.g. Java, Javascript, BASH, Perl, Ruby, C#, PHP)

• Kubernetes experience is also a huge plus for this role. 

Some of the tools and resources we will equip you with include: 

• Within your first few weeks of joining us, you will attend new hire orientation along with our 25-day CS Academy, Agile methodology, and Appian system administration & customer support bootcamps to ensure you are set up for success

• Access to over 1,000+ Udemy course, along with dedicated learning time to focus on areas you specifically would like to focus on as a cloud systems administrator

• An agile-led work environment where you will be challenged and your ideas will be heard

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in any Engineering discipline, Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Technology, or similar work

• You are an expert IT systems administrator building, maintaining, scripting, patching, & managing hosts, databases, and interconnected Cloud services with approximately 3-5 years of experience 

• You hold an active government clearance at the Top Secret level or higher 

• US Citizenship - candidates being considered for a Public Sector roles must be a U.S. citizen and be able to maintain a Top Secret Security Clearance

• CompTIA Security+ certification required prior to or directly following onboarding