Cloud Engineer

KBR, Inc.

142d • $126,200 - $157,000

About The Position

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security. KBR is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our team. The Cloud Engineer will support the government client in analyzing, evaluating, integrating, and managing cloud-based systems. The position will design and deliver optimized network infrastructure for performance and resilience. The engineer needs to have program management skills to ensure all key stakeholders are informed to ensure success in support of critical national security missions. This is a contingent position based upon contract award.

Requirements

• At least six (6) years of experience specific to technical and programmatic integration or a related field
• Experience developing IT and cloud infrastructure
• Experience in software engineering, design architecture, analyzing computer hardware and software solutions
• Understanding of best practices regarding cloud environments
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related discipline (STEM)

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of agency operating systems and databases
• Cloud certification (Azure or AWS)
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related STEM field

Responsibilities

• Provide cloud engineering expertise to design and deliver complete mission systems (infrastructure/platform/applications/process) solutions within the cloud
• Establish applications, environment uptime, and utilization scaling parameters and metrics
• Establish standard policy and compliance metrics by which cloud environment operations will be monitored, corrective responses issued, and reported
• Establish performance and cybersecurity monitoring framework, perform continuous monitoring, and report corrective actions
• Establish and apply Zero Trust Architectures build and sustainment standards
• Deliver information papers proposing emergent cloud-based technology and best practices

Benefits

• 401K plan with company match
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D
• Flexible spending account
• Disability
• Paid time off
• Flexible work schedule
• Career advancement through professional training and development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees