z SofTech Solutions, INC has an immediate need for an energetic and dynamic Cloud Reliability Engineer SME

Responsibilities and Experience

• Identifying and evaluating highly effective systems design methodologies and best practices from industry and other government organizations for enterprise level implementation
• · Identifying specific operations, processes, transactions, data, and work products adaptable to automation
• · Troubleshooting complex design problems encountered during the system development lifecycle and modifying specifications to improve design features
• · Applying business process engineering concepts and methods to evaluate requirements and recommend modifications to improve the functionality, cost and quality of proposed applications
• Expertise and/or certification in Kubernetes such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator.
• Experience in technologies such as container security, service mesh, zero-trust architecture, and container hardening.
• Experience with agile SDLC. Experience with RMF control mapping, OSCAL or other common security control mapping language. Expertise and/or certification in IaC/CaC technology such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Experience with ChatOps and AIOps tooling such as PagerDuty, VictorOps, and DataDog.
• Expertise and/or certification in cloud native solutions for monitoring and operations such as Cloudwatch, Azure Log Analytics, AWS Config, Azure Security Center, Azure Sentinel, GCP Cloud Monitoring, GCP Cloud Logging. Expertise and/or certification in cloud native security, networking, and IAM.
• Plan, design, deploy, and operate site reliability and automation capabilities for cloud products & services. · Identify and remediate sub-standard performance based on key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Work closely with Infrastructure, Network, Security, Architecture, and Development teams to build highly performing, scalable, and secure cloud environments.
• Define needs, document processes, including research, planning and writing supporting documentation.
• Lead and coordinate project activities with other Security and Cloud staff to meet or exceed deadlines.
• Lead project priorities activities and be responsible for the completion of those priority activities and report on task status/results to the ITSD Task Manager.
• Ensure system requirements are achieved on complex systems of small, mid-size, or large scope.
• Provide information / cloud security expert advice and support during the entire systems engineering life cycle from the specification and analysis of requirements, through the design of hardware or software, procurement, development, integration, testing, operations and maintenance.
• Provide analysis, definition, and the recommendation of information assurance and security requirements for advancing Information Security technologies of computing and network infrastructures.
• Knowledge of continuous monitoring techniques (e.g., SIEM, etc.) to evaluate system security postures.

• Education: BS in Engineering, Computer Science or other related field required;

  Years of Experience: Minimum of a BS plus 8 or MS plus 4 years progressively- complex professional experience specifically related to Information Security. Additional directly- related professional experience may be substituted for education at the discretion of the hiring manager.