What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Engineer (TS SCI) position at Progressive Technology Federal Systems?
Title: Cloud Engineer (TS/SCI Clearance)
PTFS is a leader in digital content management solutions, content digitization, and library services/solutions, serving more than 500 organizations around the world.
Position Summary:
The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for working with highly functional development team automating service deployments; optimizing system performance; integrating with enterprise authentication services; establishing/improving system monitoring; maintaining established security protocols; provide customer’s technical support. The Cloud Engineer will be integrated with an agile environment participating with scrums and other meetings.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain security requirements for operation of systems
- Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc)
- Produce detailed documentation
- Maintain System in AWS environment using EC2, S3, Load Balancer, RDS, and IAM
- Manage and Maintain AWS WorkSpaces
- Automate and optimize service deployments
- Delivering a full-stack web application to production; identifying and resolving operational issues in same
- Actively participating in technical requirements-gathering process (i.e. meetings with customers)
- Executing design and implementation of application features, independently / unassisted, with minimal oversight
- Writing and reading unit tests; understanding code-quality analysis concepts
- Writing and debugging Javascript, Typescript, or closely related language
- Developing applications backed by a relational database, understanding RDB design concepts
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
- 5 years IT experience
- Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements including one of the following: Security CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA , or CCNA
Required Skills:
- Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services
- Strong Troubleshooting skills at the Tier 1-3 level
- Angular frontend framework; UI/UX design
- Microservice-based backend architecture; integrating with COTS/FOSS software REST APIs
- CI/CD pipeline implementation, ideally with GitLab
- Strong Knowledge of Active Directory
- Windows/Linux/Ubuntu/CentOS Administration experience
- Desktop support
- Domain/System Administrator experience
- Be a team collaborator
- Have or able to receive a TS/SCI with CI Poly
Desired Skills:
- Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI
- Experience working with one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, or Java)
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development
- Database experience with a Postgres backend
- Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl
- Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools: GitLab, GitLab Pages, and Nexus
- Knowledge of Confluence and Jira
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
Desired Certifications:
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- Agile/SAFe
Benefits:
- 15 days paid time off per year
- 11 paid holidays per year
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- 401(k) Plan with matching
- Tuition assistance
- Disability insurance