Senior Multi-Cloud Engineer

Leidos

2d•$131,300 - $237,350•Remote

About The Position

Leidos is seeking an energetic, motivated, and innovative Senior Cloud Engineer to join their team supporting the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in Baltimore, MD. The role involves managing, maintaining, modernizing, and optimizing applications' performance, durability, and cost in hybrid and multi-cloud environments (MS-Azure, GCP, AWS, and OCI). The engineer will deliver solutions that ensure the functions of Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace are carried out and contribute to reducing healthcare costs. The vision is "no downtime, zero outages." The Senior Cloud Engineer will advise on and develop innovative solutions in multiple cloud environments, integrating industry best practices, and influencing solutions that impact strategic project/program goals. They will lead the work of other technical staff, resolve complex problems, and interact with various technical resources across different vendors. The goal is to ensure the delivery of high-quality, robust, and scalable solutions with minimal business impact. The role also involves representing the program when meeting with Application Development Organizations (ADOs) to identify opportunities for support, modernization, and innovation. The current work environment is remote, utilizing tools like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom.

Requirements

Multiple cloud environments experience of AWS, Azure, GCP with OCI experience a value plus.
Works independently under “minimal supervision".
Knowledge of cloud-based security tools, best practices and policies including demonstrated experience protecting all layers of the application stack.
Knowledge of the Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC).
Experience in cloud technologies, cloud services, IaC, cloud storage, cloud networking and cloud security.
Package Management tools: rpm, pip, dnf, yum
Experience with container build and orchestration: Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, AKS, Docker
Operating System Setup and Best practices: RHEL, AL2, AL23, Windows
Build Tools: Jenkins, GitHub
Experience with CI/CD Tools: Sonarqube, Snyk, JFrog
Dependency Management tools: Maven.
Configuration Management tools: Ansible, Terraform, Git.
Experience with Cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings.
Experience working with FISMA compliant systems
Certified in AWS, GCP, and Azure technologies and experienced in best practice design and delivery of native cloud services
Experience with AWS CloudWatch services, Azure’s Application Insights, Monitor, Log Analytics, and Monitor Metrics, and GCP’s Cloud Operations suite
Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP CLI, shell languages (e.g., Bash, PowerShell), and formal programming languages (e.g., Python, Golang, Rust).
Experience with containers (Docker, ECS, EKS, AKS, ACI/ACA), serverless (Lambda), and Virtual Machine (VMware/Hyper-V, KVM) architectures.
Experience bootstrapping and automating the build of complete environments.
Efficient communication, zero handoff mentality, accountability and integrity as core.
Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.
Ability to manage conflict effectively.
Ability to adapt and be productive in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills supporting multiple stakeholders and business operations.
Self-starter, self-managed, and a team player.
US Citizenship is required.
Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance
All candidates supporting the CMS programs must have lived in the United States at least three (3) out of the last five (5) years prior to be considered.

Nice To Haves

Current Multiple Cloud Certification (e.g., AWS CSA-Professional/CDE-Professional, Azure ASA Expert/DevOps Engineer Expert, and GCP PCA/PCDE) and demonstrable experience with each.
Proven ability to work with challenging customers.
Agile-based knowledge and skill, including experience with Scrum Ceremonies and work management tools (e.g., (JIRA, Confluence).
Security Skills—Knowledge of information assurance compliance and information security basics within CMS.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain products and native cloud services focused on application development lifecycle automation across multiple cloud environments including AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
Apply best practices and best of breed services within and across multiple CSPs to provide parity and cohesive integration within the customer’s hybrid cloud enterprise.
Work with the cloud, security, testing, and application teams to build orchestration pipelines.
Build, support, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that conduct multiple deployments a day.
Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by establishing and participating in feedback loops.
Meet with applications on a regular cadence to provide support and identify opportunities for optimization.
Serve as a main point of contact for all technical needs and become the subject matter expert of the applications the team manages.
Become a subject matter expert with CMS Hybrid Cloud and CMS Enterprise Shared Service offerings.
Develop strong relationships and partnerships with the other CMS Hybrid Cloud Product Teams.
Continuously refresh infrastructure components such as EC2 instances, Cloud Formation Stacks, Kubernetes clusters, containers, etc.
Promote strong quality control practices for all managed services as well as maintain robust documentation.
Work independently to resolve highly complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation.