Cloud Engineer 3 - 26513

HII's Mission Technologies division•Suffolk, VA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Mission Technologies, a division of HII, is seeking a Cloud Engineer 3 to support the Joint Training Synthetic Environment (JTSE) Joint Staff J7(JS J-7) contract onsite at our Suffolk, VA Joint Staff Complex.

Requirements

5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 3 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 0 years experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 9 years relevant experience.
Must have the ability to obtain and maintain active Secret security clearance; Must be able to obtain at least an interim Secret clearance within 90 days of offer acceptance.
Experience with the Linux operating system.
Experience in building and maintaining physical and virtual servers.
Extensive experience with Gitlab, including merge requests and branching strategies.
Experience with the Gitlab CI/CD process using pipelines and Gitlab Runners.
Experience with developing, updating and maintaining Helm charts used for deploying containerized applications.
Experience with image registries such as Artifactory, Harbor and/or Nexus.
Extensive experience with container image tagging.
Experience utilizing HashiCorp Vault for secrets management.
Experience utilizing JIRA ticketing systems.
Experience with accurate and thorough documentation of processes utilizing Confluence.
Experience with backend databases to include building, configuring, optimizing and maintaining as well as being able to view, manipulate and extract data from within the database.
Possess the ability to maintain multiple application deployments across several separate network environments.
Understands and determines sizing, capacity planning and requirements for infrastructure, network, and security in the cloud offering
Experience troubleshooting within cloud environments.
Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work both in a team and individually.
Solid organizational skills, including attention to detail.
Self-motivated and driven desire to succeed with minimal direction.

Nice To Haves

Experience deploying applications in cloud infrastructures such as Azure or AWS.
Experience using common development environments or languages such as Go and Python.
Experience with deploying and managing Prometheus and Grafana.
Experience with Cybersecurity tools such as Trivy, Grype and Fortify.
Knowledge of cluster security tools such as Istio.
Experience with installing, maintaining and troubleshooting VMware infrastructure.
Experience in maintaining an approved cyber posture on systems as well as applications.
Experience with requesting, issuing, revoking and implementing SSL/TLS certificates.
Experience with application data connections utilizing mTLS.
Experience with ingress controllers.
Experience deploying containerized applications utilizing ArgoCD.
Experience managing Kubernetes cluster environments using Rancher and RKE2.
Experience with authorization services such as LDAP, OAuth, OIDC and integrating these to secure RESTful APIs and microservices.
Experience with being a member of an Agile Development team, with a strong focus on the SCRUM framework, including participation in stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure on platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Provision and configure cloud resources, including compute, storage, networking, and databases, ensuring cost efficiency and performance.
Automate provisioning of cloud resources using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
Implement best practices for cloud security.
Collaborate with the security team to conduct vulnerability assessments and implement mitigation strategies.
Set up monitoring tools to monitor cloud infrastructure and applications.
Optimize resource allocation to improve performance and reduce costs.
Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure issues, ensuring minimal downtime and maintaining high availability.
Integrate cloud services with existing CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment processes.
Automate infrastructure deployment and configuration management.
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure repeatability, scalability, and consistency across environments.
Collaborate with software engineers, operations, and security teams to ensure cloud infrastructure aligns with business needs.
Provide technical guidance and support for teams working with cloud-based applications and services.
Develop documentation and knowledge-sharing resources for cloud infrastructure and processes.