Cloud Engineer

Integral • Radford, VA

5d

About The Position

The Cloud Engineer supports the U.S. Army Product Lead Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Enterprise Systems and Services (PL ALTESS) commercial cloud services infrastructure. ALTESS is a managed service provider for Army and Department of Defense IT systems and plans to offer managed cloud services in public clouds, including Microsoft Azure and AWS, as well as private clouds.

The role works with hosted customers to build enclaves and provision cloud resources using automation tools. It also supports cybersecurity, administration, monitoring, and cost management for ALTESS infrastructure and hosted customer enclaves.

Requirements

• Experience in Computer Science or IT.
• CompTIA Security+ or an equivalent IA certification, as well as a computing environment certification such as MCSD Azure Solutions Architect or AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience effectively managing multiple large-scale projects.
• Strong experience with IPSEC/VPN and other secure transport technologies, as well as Border Gateway Protocol.
• Proven experience migrating on-premises applications to the cloud.
• Understanding of network, storage, server, and application technologies.
• Strong knowledge of automation concepts, tools, and scripting languages such as Ansible, Terraform, Python, PowerShell, Bash, Puppet, and Chef.
• Working knowledge of code repository tools such as Git.
• Working knowledge of DoD STIGs and IA Vulnerability Management (IAVM).
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline experience, such as Jenkins, Travis CI, or AWS Code Deploy.

Nice To Haves

• Experience automating routine administrative tasks.
• Senior IT experience in networking or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Work with hosted customers to build their enclaves and provision cloud resources using automation tools.
• Maintain the cybersecurity posture of ALTESS infrastructure and hosted customer enclaves, including producing STIG checklists, remediating findings on ACAS reports and other approved cybersecurity tools, logging data required for cybersecurity and CSSP compliance, resolving commercial-cloud cybersecurity findings, and applying and monitoring vendor security patches.
• Perform daily administrative tasks for ALTESS and hosted customer enclaves using incidents and changes in the ALTESS IT service management (ITSM) tool.
• Monitor the performance and availability of cloud resources.
• Monitor cloud burn daily for changes to forecasted spend and alert leadership of deviations.

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• Immediate vesting in the 401(k)
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off and holidays
• Earned bonuses and awards
• Professional training reimbursement
• Paid parking
• Employee Assistance Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed