The Cloud Engineer is a critical position for our company and will be responsible for daily operations and support of our servers, applications, and services. The candidate will be performing project based work around system administration tasks. You’ll be interfacing with the devops, service ops, and development teams. The qualified candidate will need to be comfortable with the Linux and Windows command lines, maintaining services such as LDAP, DNS, Apache, MySQL, and SqlServer. Experience working with AWS is required, specifically with automation leveraging Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloudformation) and implementing security controls. Experience with Windows Server 2019 , IIS and .net application deployment is preferred.
Responsibilities

• Improving existing processes and establishing automation (IaC) and maturing an existing hybrid environment at an established client.
• Running and growing a large scale, high availability server environment.
• Configuration of Credential Management, Security Controls, Cost/Budget Alerts and Notifications
• Support existing client workloads in linux and windows cloud environments
• Improving and refining our service monitoring.
• Executing large system changes using the latest technologies.
• Maturing and expanding the use of third party cloud tools.

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in computer science, information systems or technical discipline
• Minimum 3 years relevant experience
• Hands-on experience with Linux, Windows
• Hands-on experience with a cloud-based environment, particularly Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Familiarity with build automation tools (jenkins, AWS code pipeline)
• Familiarity with configuration management tools
• Knowledge of source code control management systems, configuration management, and code branching/merging strategies; Git is preferred
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code.

Desired Skills

• Some experience with SQL and relational database administration (MySQL, SqlServer)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment

Clearance Required: Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance
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