Cloud Engineer

TekSynap•Washington, DC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our team supporting the Department of Transportation. TekSynap is a fast growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. “Technology moving at the speed of thought” embodies these principles – the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers. We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays. Visit us at www.TekSynap.com . Apply now to explore jobs with us! The safety and health of our employees is of the utmost importance. Employees are required to comply with any vaccination requirements mandated by contract, applicable law or regulation. By applying to a role at TekSynap you are providing consent to receive text messages regarding your interview and employment status. If at any time you would like to opt out of text messaging, respond "STOP". As part of the application process, you agree that TekSynap Corporation may retain and use your name, e-mail, and contact information for purposes related to employment consideration.

Requirements

5 years experience deploying/configuring application workloads within Microsoft Azure Commercial Cloud or AWS Cloud
Demonstrated understanding of principals supporting infrastructure components including compute, network, and storage, with 7 years total hands-on experience in technology
Demonstrated understanding of principals configurating and supporting application workloads within the Azure or AWS Cloud
Strong understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers.
Experience assessing, customizing, troubleshooting, optimizing, and maintaining current and emerging technologies, platforms, and applications to help ensure greater security and efficiencies, covering network, compute and storage principals.
Experience with cloud orchestration tools and continuous delivery processes to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure for customers to consume
Demonstrated proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including use of remote APIs
Experience working with containers and container orchestration systems and hardening practices.
AWS Solutions Architect Associate and/or Azure Administrator Associate certifications or higher
Candidate must be a U.S. Citizen
Must be able to successfully obtain a Public Trust

Responsibilities

Creating/updating cloud environment configurations to establish/support application workloads, including Azure Focused: Configuration of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, VNets, Subnets, load balancers, App Services, Azure Batch, Virtual Machines, resource tagging, billing, policy implementation, and security controls b. AWS Focused: Configuration of AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, subnets, load balancers, Network routes, Transit Gateway, Control Tower, Systems Manager, Config Manager, stack sets, WAF, CloudFront, and Route53
Understanding of shell scripting and executing commands via the command line
Designing and building out automation platforms utilizing Infrastructure as Code methodologies – preferred skills are CloudFormation and/or Terraform, scripting capabilities with PowerShell and Python
Supporting and completing requests for operational support to include communicating level of effort and status to cloud leadership team
Supporting data calls for resources provisioned within the cloud environment and reporting out status of resources.
Identifying and communicating opportunities for improving agency security posture within cloud environments
Collaborating with external development teams to understand cloud workload solution architecture within agency AWS/Azure environment