Principal Cloud Engineer

SAIC•Colorado Springs, CO

2d•Onsite

About The Position

SAIC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support the AF TENCAP HOPE 2.0 contract onsite in Colorado Springs, CO. The AF TENCAP HOPE 2.0 contract bridges intelligence community collection architectures, capabilities, and technologies with DoD operational and tactical requirements. This effort will deliver rapid, innovative, and cost-effective capabilities to meet warfighter needs, and will include bringing national capabilities to bear across all warfighting domains spanning intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, combat applications, battlespace awareness, command and control, multi-level security and mission programs. The Cloud Engineer will be part of a close team that maintains, enhances and upgrades a myriad of applications and services, in an enterprise environment. As part of the team, you will participate in implementation and maintenance of On-Prem Cloud and IT Infrastructure to support the customer.

Requirements

Kubernetes cloud engineering in on-prem heterogeneous environments
Automation for deployments/configuration management
Administration and management of multiple on-prem cloud environments
Monitoring and remediation of cloud infrastructure health, performance, and availability
Cloud operations support
Updating cloud environments and applying DoD STIGs
Management of cloud infrastructure/services (Linux VMs, RKE2, Rancher, storage)
Vulnerability remediation
Maintaining SOPs and troubleshooting guides
Assisting teammates with infrastructure and server administration
Managing software installations and asset/application inventories
Drafting/enhancing documentation for problem resolution processes
Preparing technical justifications for hardware/software procurement
Systems administration tasks

Responsibilities

Provide mid to top-tier Kubernetes cloud engineering in on-prem heterogeneous environments.
Develop and maintain automation for deployments/configuration management.
Administer and manage multiple on-prem cloud environments.
Monitor and remediate cloud infrastructure health, performance, and availability.
Provide cloud operations support during exercises.
Update cloud environments and apply DoD STIGs.
Manage cloud infrastructure/services (Linux VMs, RKE2, Rancher, storage).
Remediate vulnerabilities and respond to tasking orders.
Maintain SOPs and troubleshooting guides.
Assist teammates with infrastructure and server administration.
Manage software installations and asset/application inventories.
Draft/enhance documentation for problem resolution processes.
Prepare technical justifications for hardware/software procurement.
Execute other systems administration tasks as assigned.