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Principal Cloud Engineer / Architect (AWS)

Nightwing
Hamilton, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/7/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/7/2025

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers' most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.

Nightwing is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. Nightwing is seeking a Sr Systems Engineer to assess, design, and develop automated cloud-based requirements and architectures and develop derived requirements and systems engineering artifacts into advanced cloud infrastructure, management, and operations.

Responsibilities include :

  • Providing Systems Engineering project leadership in support of a large, leading edge cybersecurity system.
  • Coordinating teams in the development, integration, and testing of advanced leading-edge cybersecurity, with the assistance of the Design & Development Lead and Chief Engineer
  • Interfacing directly with the Customer, stakeholders, and end-users regarding priorities, capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications
  • Representing the voice of the user in development
  • Collaborating within Agile Release Trains and Agile Teams
  • Supporting risk assessments and developing risk mitigation countermeasures
  • Providing Systems Engineering expertise and leadership in support of a large cybersecurity system

Required Skills :

  • Must be a US Citizen
  • Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS / SCI clearance
  • Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
  • 10 years of directly relevant systems engineering experience such as allocation of hardware and software requirements, development of use cases and stories
  • Detailed design of system components, and direct automation / orchestration experience with larger systems
  • Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading large teams
  • Able to effectively work as a leader, in a group, or as an independent individual contributor
  • Experience working in an Agile development environment in a leadership role
  • Possesses or quickly develops a comprehensive understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines
  • Advanced experience with AWS / Azure cloud deployment and management tools
  • Expertise in automation of infrastructure - deployment, configuration, and orchestration
  • Direct experience with scripting in JSON, YAML, HCL, Python, bash / PSH and / or CloudFormation / Terraform
  • Desired Skills :

  • Experience in the following AWS technologies : Lambda, EMR, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Route53, IAM, Cognito, Athena, Sagemaker, Glue, ELB
  • Familiarity in the following AWS technologies : GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, SSM, SNS, SQS, S3 / Glacier, KMS, Certificate Manager, Secrets Manager, CLI, EC2, EBS, WAF Security Groups, NACL, VPC, Availability Zones
  • Familiarity with the following technologies in a cloud environment : Elk Stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana), Ansible, Nessus, ClamAV, AIDE, Splunk, DNS, NAT, git - Azure cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience
  • Influential communication and ability to achieve alignment
  • Experience managing many people and projects
  • Experience working in an agile development environment
  • Experience working in DevOps and / or DevSecOps environments
  • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience
  • Experience working on projects that implement analytic models into production systems
  • Experience with AWS technologies, and migrations from on-prem to AWS
  • Required Skills :

  • Project Management experience required.
  • Demonstrated experience or familiarity with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS), compliant with ANSI / EIA Standard 748-B required.
  • Agile development methodology experience required.
  • Required Education :

  • Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline is required.
  • Four (4) years of experience may be substituted for a degree.]

    Desired Certifications :

  • SAFe certification (SA, SP, SSM / SASM, RTE, POPM, SPD, ASE, or SPC)
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS Solutions Architect - Associate / Pro
  • DoD 8570.1 IAT Level I or II (e.g. CISSP)
  • Syndeo : 3412 v2

    At Nightwing, we value collaboration and teamwork. You'll have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals who are passionate about what they do. Together, we'll leverage our collective expertise to drive innovation, solve complex problems, and deliver exceptional results for our clients.

    Thank you for considering joining us as we embark on this new journey and shape the future of cybersecurity and intelligence together as part of the Nightwing team.

    Nightwing is An Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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