Cloud Engineer

KBR•Chantilly, VA

About The Position

KBR's National Security Solutions team is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support a government client in analyzing, evaluating, integrating, and managing cloud-based systems. The role involves designing and delivering optimized network infrastructure for performance and resilience, and requires program management skills to ensure stakeholder alignment for 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)
Certifications in architecture or IT development
Active TS/SCI Clearance required

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