Principal Cloud Engineer

TekSynap•Washington, DC

2h•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Principal 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".

Requirements

12+ years experience in information technology WITH 8+ years of focused, HANDS ON experience deploying/configuring workloads within EITHER AWS or Azure – preferred experience is DevOps focused
Experience designing and implementing cloud architectures
Good understanding of FedRAMP services and best practices for their consumption
Experience managing AWS Public and GovCloud across regions
Experience deploying stack sets and using AWS Control Tower
Strong knowledge of enterprise computing and operating systems such as Linux and Windows, and experience with troubleshooting
Proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including use of remote APIs
Demonstrated proficiency with implementing and managing AWS services via AWS Console or CLI of AWS accounts, IAM users, IAM roles, VPCs, and load balancers
Demonstrated understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers
Knowledge of Agile Project Management methodologies
Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and use cases
Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment
Professional Architect Certification within EITHER AWS or Azure
Candidate must be a U.S. Citizen
Must be able to successfully obtain a Public Trust

Responsibilities

Producing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration as Code (CaC), delivering solutions with a code first approach with sufficient comments and structure
Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions
Diagnosing and resolving complex performance, security, and/or technical challenges
Supporting all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams
Identifying opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency and providing strategic direction for addressing those opportunities
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
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