Cloud Engineer

Leidos•St. Louis, MO

2d•$87,100 - $157,450•Onsite

About The Position

The Leidos Spatial Solutions team has an opening for an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to work on a cloud development and deployment team. The team is involved in the deployment and maintenance of multiple operational cloud deployed software solutions. A successful candidate will have experience across all AWS Environments and be able to provide analysis and recommendations for architectural and configuration updates.

Requirements

Must possess and maintain a TS/SCI Security Clearance with ability to obtain Poly CI
DoD 8570 Certification Compliance (IAT Level 2/3)
BS degree and & 5+ years’ experience consulting, designing and implementing distributed solutions and 3+ years’ experience with cloud-based solutions (Cloud, SOA, Web-Services) including virtualization environment, network and operating system experience OR 4 years of additional experience in lieu of degree
Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, diagrams, etc.)
Familiar with team collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, RocketChat)
Experience in AWS/Cloud technologies
Experience in Grafana
Subject Matter Expertise understanding across AWS cloud technologies including: EC2, PaaS (OpenShift), Lamdas, S3 buckets, Reserved Instances, etc.
Understanding of code baseline management
Utilization of the following: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Python, Gitlab, CloudFormation, Zabbix, HPFortify, ACAS, PostgreSQL, Scrum, Kanban, Terraform
Knowledge of Systems, Architectural, SW Development and SW Sustainment Practices
Proactive self-starter demonstrates a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.
Demonstrates ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work, follow tasks to their logical conclusion and ensure everything has been correctly satisfied to standard. Great attention to detail.
Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently with team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context.

Nice To Haves

Understanding of SFA organization; Aeronautical data and mission
Experience with NGA cloud-based architecture
AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer, Certifications
Experience with IC Cloud Architecture implementation methodologies
Native cloud templating services like AWS Cloud Formation
Experience with Aeronautical datasets
Experience with CI/CD Pipelines and projects
Experience with Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) process of evaluating solution options

Responsibilities

Collaborates with teams in the design and implementation of AWS system architectures to include operational status and security of government systems (ATO).
Reviews and provides input to system requirements based on cyber security posture.
Compiles industry best practices and lessons learned into future iterations and new designs.
Provides architectural analysis of cloud configurations and connections.
Supports the Engineering Review Board, evaluating artifacts for architectural compliance.
Provides broad-based experience in the systems engineering lifecycle and applies the experience to specific AWS cloud initiatives relating to architectural design and development.
Resolves architecture implementation issues during integration and test.
Provides support directly or through team management, including triaging system outages and ticket support resolution.
Advises and assists teams to deploy and configure collection services and tools with 99.9% up-time.
Works with team members to move data to the appropriate data stores and monitors dashboard metrics including costs, computational utilization and other future business needs.
Validates and manages government systems changes; create, run and validate end-to-end testing.