Cloud Systems Engineer

M9 Solutions is seeking a Cloud Systems Engineer to work on a government contract for a client located in San Diego, CA. An active TS/SCI clearance is required.     

Responsibilities

• Join a team focused on building and maintaining the tooling and infrastructure used to automate the release, deployment, and upgrade processes for base cloud infrastructure.
• Work on developing the automated pipelines for cloud environments.
• Provide consulting services to application and infrastructure teams specific to automated build, test and release automation.
• Responsible for the operations and operating environment for the DevOps platforms, and will drive troubleshooting efforts around incidents and outages.
• Design, write and deliver Infrastructure as Code software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of the cloud environment.
• Develop jobs for the deployment of various artifacts that support a continuous security updated environment.
• Participate in design and architecture discussions and build environments using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and configuration management tools like Ansible.
• Automate repetitive tasks to eliminate toil and drive consistency and repeatability.
• Incident response and root-cause analysis; support a blameless post-mortems culture.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI security clearance (TS/SCI with Poly is preferred).
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or information technology.
• 4+ years of direct experience.
• Security+ certification or the ability to obtain certification within 3 months of hire.
• Experience working in a security culture.
• Experience working with appropriate scripting languages and operating systems software (e.g., PowerShell, Bash).
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent configuration management tools.
• Flexibility in approach to finding solutions, ability to understand and act on customer needs and priorities, and ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Strong team building skills that enable collaboration and coordination within and across teams and functions.
• Ability to automate menial tasks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Azure, AWS, or similar cloud provider experience.