Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation’s safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats. Be part of an exciting opportunity to contribute to one of the nation's most critical intelligence organizations. Your work directly impacts national security and global issues, you will have the chance to contribute to missions that are of paramount importance to the United States and its allies, know that that the environments and programs you support are making a difference on a global scale. Our customers operate at the forefront of technology, dealing with some of the most advanced defense, geospatial, and intelligence systems in the world.
Location: Preferred location is St. Louis, MO, but the position is also available in Springfield, VA.
Role Overview:
The Cloud Engineer will work within a highly functional development team to automate service deployments, optimize system performance, integrate enterprise authentication services, establish and improve system monitoring, maintain security protocols, and provide technical support to customers. This role involves working in an agile environment, participating in scrums and other agile meetings.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain security requirements for operational systems.
- Enhance existing infrastructure including autoscaling, supporting new services, and optimizing for cost efficiencies, authentication, and search.
- Produce comprehensive documentation.
- Maintain systems in an AWS environment using EC2, S3, Load Balancer, RDS, and IAM.
- Manage and maintain AWS WorkSpaces.
- Automate and optimize service deployments.
- Deploy full-stack web applications to production; identify and resolve operational issues.
- Participate actively in gathering technical requirements from customers.
- Design and implement application features independently with minimal oversight.
- Write and review unit tests; understand code-quality analysis concepts.
- Develop applications with Javascript, Typescript, or closely related languages.
- Utilize relational databases and understand RDB design concepts.
What We Are Looking For
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.
- At least 5 years of IT experience.
- Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements, holding certifications such as Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA.
Required Skills:
- Extensive knowledge of Amazon Web Services.
- Advanced troubleshooting skills across Tier 1-3.
- Experience with Angular and UI/UX design.
- Proficiency in microservice-based architecture and REST API integration.
- Implementation of CI/CD pipelines, ideally with GitLab.
- Strong familiarity with Active Directory and system administration across Windows/Linux/Ubuntu/CentOS.
- Desktop and domain/system administration experience.
- Excellent teamwork capabilities.
- Eligibility to obtain a TS/SCI with CI Poly clearance.
Desired Skills:
- Proficient in cloud API interactions, particularly with AWS/CLI.
- Programming experience in Python, Ruby, Java, or similar languages.
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development.
- Database management experience, particularly with Postgres.
- Scripting automation skills in Bash, PowerShell, or Perl.
- Familiarity with DevOps processes and tools like GitLab, GitLab Pages, and Nexus.
- Experience with Confluence and Jira.
- Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Desired Certifications:
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
- Agile/SAFe certification.
What you will get:
- Joining a team of technology experts and partners in the same mission
- A high-growth environment with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as the company grows
- Owner and Leadership team that come from technical backgrounds so they understand the day-to-day challenges of the technical consulting world and can offer real-life solutions and guidance
- Highly competitive benefits package that shows we want to hire the very best
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