Cloud Engineer

Team: Enterprise Services

Location: Springfield, VA

Commitment: Full-Time Employee

Workplace Type: onsite

Salary:

Job Overview:

As a Cloud Engineer, you'll be at the heart of our mission to deliver secure, automated, and highly available cloud infrastructure for our DoD customers. Working within a highly functional agile development team, you'll automate service deployments, optimize system performance, integrate with enterprise authentication services, strengthen system monitoring, and uphold established security protocols – driving our commitment to cloud modernization and cyber resilience.

Here, your work is more than a job – it's a journey in innovation. With opportunities to work on high-impact projects, access to the latest technologies, and a culture that thrives on creativity and collaboration, INflow Federal is where your expertise can truly make a difference.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with the A&A Team to maintain security requirements for operation of systems
• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies, authentication, search, etc.)
• Produce detailed documentation
• Maintain systems in an AWS environment using EC2, S3, Load Balancer, and RDS
• Automate and optimize service deployments
• Deliver a full-stack web application to production; identify and resolve operational issues
• Actively participate in the technical requirements-gathering process (i.e., meetings with customers)
• Execute design and implementation of application features independently, with minimal oversight
• Refactor legacy application code for improved reliability and maintainability
• Mentor junior developers
• Write and read unit tests; apply code-quality analysis concepts
• Write and debug JavaScript, TypeScript, or a closely related language
• Develop applications backed by a relational database; apply relational database design concepts
• Provide technical support to customers and participate in scrums and other agile team meetings

Required Skills:

• 8+ years of IT experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
• Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements, including one of the following: Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA
• Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services
• Experience automating tasks using scripting languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology
• Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools: GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus
• Extensive TypeScript or JavaScript background
• Angular frontend framework; UI/UX design
• Microservice-based backend architecture; integrating with COTS/FOSS software REST APIs
• Experience supporting a full-stack application in a PaaS environment
• CI/CD pipeline implementation, ideally with GitLab
• Creating and deploying containerized applications, ideally with Docker
• Designing and implementing container orchestration with Kubernetes

Desired Skills:

Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS CLI
Experience with one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, or Java)
Experience with the Go programming language
Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development
Database experience with a Postgres backend
Strong communication skills
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification

• Some travel may be required: Must have valid driver’s license and transportation. This is subject to change at the direction of the customer.
• If accommodation is needed with your application or the interview process for applicants with disabilities, please contact Human Resources at 703-594-8601.
• Candidate must have the ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
• Must have willingness to perform duties not listed in the job description as required by INflow and our customer.