We have an outstanding Contract to Hire position for aCloud Engineer SME- Cloud Architect Engineer to join a leading Company located in the Washington, DC surrounding area.
**Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. **
The main function of a Cloud Engineer is designing and managing cloud-based systems for organizations. A typical Cloud Engineer will collaborate with teams to identify optimal solutions, modify systems, and ensure they meet the organization's needs.
Job Responsibilities:
- Designing, developing, and deploying modular cloud-based systems.
- Ensuring efficient functioning of data storage and process functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security.
- Identifying, analyzing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
- Regularly reviewing existing systems and making recommendations for improvements.
- Interacting with clients, providing cloud support, and making recommendations based on client needs.
- Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code-first approach with sufficient comments and structure.
- Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions.
- Diagnosing and resolving complex performance, security, and/or technical challenges.
- Supporting all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud-native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams.
- Identifying opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities.
- Creating/updating cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads.
- Azure Focused: Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls.
- AWS Focused: Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53.
Basic Hiring Criteria:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required Azure, AWS, and GCP certifications preferred. Troubleshooting and analytical skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Client management skills to discuss systems as needed. 10+ years of experience required.
- 12+ years experience in information technology with 8+ years of recent hands-on experience deploying/configuring workloads within AWS OR Azure.
- Experience designing and implementing cloud architectures.
- Extensive experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) including CloudFormation and Terraform.
- Good understanding of DevOps best practices and experience working with DevOps tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Artifactory
- Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters.
- Strong experience troubleshooting enterprise computing and operating systems such as Linux and Windows.
- Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases.
- Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment.
- Professional Architect Certification in AWS OR Azure.
Experience: Must have a minimum of 10 years of related experience managing cloud environments,
possessing extensive skills and knowledge in cloud service provider selection, implementation
techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet
business needs, including present and future capacity requirements. Possess at least 1 Professional or
Specialty certification from a cloud provider. Duties: In addition to the duties required of a Cloud
Engineer Sr, a Cloud Engineer SME will provides technical, managerial, and administrative direction for
problem definition, analysis, requirements development and implementation for complex to
extremely complex systems within cloud infrastructure. Troubleshoots cloud performance issues.
Analyzes network traffic and provides capacity planning solutions.
