Cloud Architect

Description

 Second-61: Our foundation is built upon the heart of patriotism; grounded in protecting that which matters most as Vigilant Defenders. We look forward to meeting you and sharing our mission to love and honor each other, our community, our country, and our customers, through superb services as their front-line Vigilant Defenders.

Position Description

We’re hiring a Cloud Engineer to join our team at Scott Air Force Base. In this role, you will initiate, supervise, and/or develop requirements from a project’s inception to conclusion for complex to extremely complex programs. You will provide strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to program and project staff; Provide detailed analysis, evaluation and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission critical challenges/issues; Consult with client to define needs or problems, supervise studies and lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.

Location and Hours:

• On-site at Scott Air Force Base, near O'Fallon, IL
• Usual business hours M-F. May be required to provide after-hours and weekend support during planned or emergency events.

Position Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and hands-on development and implementation of commercial cloud solution architectures that modernize the way our customers architect, deploy, and use cloud technology, focusing on security, scalability, and resiliency.
• Plan, design, and manage the migration, re-platforming, integration, implementation and operation of our client's complex cloud environments enabling managed shared services.
• Communicate, define, administer, and implement various security processes and assist with the transformation of platforms.
• Ensure commercial cloud service offerings (CSO) adhere to DoD Cloud Computing policy/guidelines.
• Provide specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection, cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.
• Develop and conduct testing of cloud and virtualization systems.
• Maintain technical expertise relevant industry standards and in cloud computing and virtualization technologies such as cloud service provider architecture, design, and configuration; cloud deployment models including public, community, private, and hybrid; cloud service delivery models including infrastructure-, platform-, and software-as-a-service; automation; hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networks; virtual infrastructure management; self-provisioning; and scaling.
• Evaluate and report on new cloud and virtualization technologies to enhance capabilities of cloud-based and virtualized services.
• May also provide systems engineering activities such as: Concept of Operations Formulation, Requirements Definition, Analysis and Engineering, System Architecting, System Analysis and Design, Interface and Data Architectures, Validation and Verification, System Integration, System Op. Performance Analysis, Lifecycle Cost Analysis Estimation, Decision Analysis and Physical Configuration Analysis (PCA).
• Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
• Participate with senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives.
• Make recommendations/decisions on administrative or project work matters and ensures effective achievement of program, project, or organizational objectives.
• Serve as organization spokesperson on advanced projects and/or programs. Act as advisor to management and customers on advanced technical research studies and applications.

Requirements

Experience:

• 10  years or more experience.
• Ability to process requirements from government customer, prioritize taskings and work based on government direction and timelines.
• Proven track record of work experience as a cloud architect, designing and deploying cloud solutions.
• Expertise in Active Directory design and maintenance.
• Proficient knowledge of RedHat Enterprise Linux operating system and command line administration.
• In-depth understanding of, and experience as a cloud engineer with AWS, Networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS.
• Experience administering Azure Active Directory and Azure Active Directory Connect.
• Demonstrated experience in one or more following activities:- IaaS, PaaS and SaaS Services (compute, storage, network, security, administration, automation, application services, databases).
• Ability to utilize a variety of tools like Git, YML, and AWS security capabilities (WAF, GuardDuty, Security Groups, IAM, etc.).
• Knowledge of an IT Service Management (ITSM) tool suite.
• Experience with AWS Workspaces or experience deploying VDI solutions to AWS Cloud.
• Experience with Zero trust architectures.
• Configuration and change management experience working directly with/for a Government customer.
• Evaluate and recommend DevOps tools and technologies based on organizational needs.
• In depth troubleshooting experience with the ability to tackle the toughest environment issues.
• PowerShell/Bash scripting experience to create automation/scripts that can be integrated with existing automation to further process improvement.
• Experience with how to write SSM documents in JSON/YAML.
• Experience with how to write/test/deploy new or existing CloudFormation templates.
• Experience with Ec2 Image builder pipelines.

Security Qualifications:

• Position is only open to US Citizens.
• Active Department of Defense Secret Security Clearance.

Education and Certifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in related field of study.
• Must have at least one of these IAT Level III certifications (CASP CE, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), GCED, GCIH).
• Computing Environment (CE) certification or certificate for the technical area of responsibility for Cloud or virtualization (e.g., Azure, AWS, oracle, IBM, etc.) with a preference in Azure.

Desired Qualifications: 

•  MA/MS
• 15 or more years of experience.
• DoD TS/SCI clearance
• AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certification
• ITIL V4 Foundations Certification
• Expertise with CI/CD tools and concepts.
• Fluency with multiple scripting languages.
• AWS networking experience including AWS site to site VPNs, Transit Gateway and Direct connect.
• Knowledge of routing using BGP in a DoD environment.
• Familiarity with DNS in an AWS GovCloud environment using Route53, knowledge of DISA Iodyn is a plus.
• Experience with network devices such as Palo Alto Next gen firewalls, juniper vSRXs and F5 big IP virtual is a plus.
• Extensive knowledge of RHEL8/9 and Windows Server 19/22.
• Proficiencies with DevOps tools (Docker/Kubernetes/Harbor/ECS/EKS/Fargate/Gitlab-ci/Artifactory).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies and associated tools.
• Demonstrated expertise in creating and executing CI/CD pipelines.

 
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.