Cloud Engineer, Jr

Abile Group, Inc.•St. Louis, MO

About The Position

Abile Group is hiring a Cloud Engineer, Jr for a 10-year contract supporting User Facing and Data Center Services for an Intelligence Community customer. The team supports the design, engineering, procurement, implementation, operation, sustainment, and disposal of user-facing and data center IT services across multiple networks, security domains, and locations worldwide. The engineer will maintain and improve cloud infrastructure and deployment processes, support security and reliability initiatives, and participate in Agile development activities. On-call support is required.

Requirements

TS/SCI clearance with eligibility to obtain a CI polygraph.
Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of years of experience and education.
At least 3 years of relevant experience.
Willingness to learn cross-domain services available at the customer agency.
Working understanding of TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, and Bash.
Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines, typically used to deploy or update applications and services in OpenShift or AWS.
Strong understanding of DevSecOps and software/application development processes.
Understanding of GitLab or other DevSecOps/continuous integration tools.
Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, and virtual and physical infrastructure design.

Nice To Haves

Security+ certification.
Experience with multi-platform integration connecting processes and services between AWS, GitLab, OpenShift, Nexus, and Self Service.
Experience with AWS serverless infrastructure components.
Background as a system administrator.
Cross-domain engineering experience.
Experience with AWS Diode.
Understanding of access management and security groups, including IAM, S3 buckets, SSH, and VPN.
Ability to write and use unit and functional tests.
Experience using Jira and Confluence.
Strong written and oral communication skills.
Customer engagement experience.

Responsibilities

Maintain and improve CI/CD build and deployment processes to automate and optimize service deployments across development, test, and production systems.
Integrate systems with enterprise authentication services.
Maintain and improve existing infrastructure, including building autoscaling, supporting new services, and optimizing cost efficiency, authentication, and search.
Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security- and system-related incidents.
Monitor and analyze system performance, including server load and resource usage.
Apply configuration management practices to maintain software revisions, security patches, system hardening, and documentation, and ensure continuity of recurring tasks.
Enforce security and reliability best practices and drive security initiatives such as access control and vulnerability testing.
Work with A&A teams to maintain system security requirements for operation.
Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions and validate their completion.
Participate in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings.
Provide on-call support.