Cloud Engineer

Bering Straits Native Corp • Randolph, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Cloud Engineer will provide guidance across data, compute, storage, network, virtualization, containerization, and security, and help transform the organization to take advantage of DevSecOps, CI/CD, and Agile methodologies. This role involves developing architecture for cloud environments, promoting DevOps engineering principles, and assessing cloud architectures for scalability, security, resilience, and mission alignment. The engineer will use logic and reasoning to identify strengths and weaknesses of alternative technical solutions, evaluate analytics from the cloud environment for improvements and optimization, and provide technical advisory to leadership, engineers, and cybersecurity SMEs. The position ensures cloud solutions are secure, interoperable, and compliant with engineering, cybersecurity, and program requirements.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree or seven years of equivalent experience.
• 15–20 years of technical infrastructure and/or systems engineering experience.
• Seven years of experience in all aspects of cloud computing (compute, storage, platforms, data, and security).
• Proven track record in implementing large-scale cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience in cloud computing-based services architecture, technical design, and implementations, including IaaS and PaaS.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must have or be able to attain a SECRET security clearance.
• Deep knowledge of AWS, Azure, Oracle, or Google Cloud, with experience in large-scale deployments.
• Strong knowledge of cloud cost optimization techniques.
• Experience in one or more automation languages (CLI, Python, Ruby, PowerShell).
• Strong knowledge of Direct Connect, Private Link, VPN, and other public cloud connectivity solutions.
• Thorough understanding of infrastructure automation, CI/CD, networking, storage, and cloud-based delivery models.
• Strong knowledge of networking and web standards such as DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP, web security, and firewalls.
• Highly experienced in autoscaling, load balancing, and disaster recovery (DR) cloud computing models.
• Experience with SSO/Federation.
• Working knowledge of configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, and Ansible).
• Thorough understanding of cloud-native, vendor-agnostic, and cloud-ready application development.
• Thorough understanding of cloud governance.
• Strong working knowledge of cloud monitoring tools, application performance monitoring tools, and operational dashboarding.

Nice To Haves

• Agile development experience.
• Active SECRET security clearance

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance across data, compute, storage, network, virtualization, containerization, and security, and help transform the organization to take advantage of DevSecOps, CI/CD, and Agile methodologies.
• Develop architecture for cloud environments.
• Promote DevOps engineering principles throughout the portfolio.
• Assess cloud architectures for scalability, security, resilience, and mission alignment.
• Use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative technical solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems, driving data-driven decisions.
• Evaluate analytics from the cloud environment to make recommendations for improvements and optimization.
• Provide technical advisory to leadership, engineers, and cybersecurity SMEs.
• Ensure cloud solutions are secure, interoperable, and compliant with engineering, cybersecurity, and program requirements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior