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Mission Technologies, a division of HII · 1 week ago

Cloud Engineer 3 - 26513

Suffolk, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$100K/yr - $140K/yr

5+ years exp

Mission Technologies, a division of HII, is seeking a Cloud Engineer 3 to support the Joint Training Synthetic Environment (JTSE) Joint Staff J7 contract onsite at our Suffolk, VA Joint Staff Complex. The role involves designing, implementing, and managing scalable cloud infrastructure while collaborating with various teams to ensure alignment with business needs and best practices for cloud security.

Defense & Space

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure on platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

Provision and configure cloud resources, including compute, storage, networking, and databases, ensuring cost efficiency and performance

Automate provisioning of cloud resources using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible

Implement best practices for cloud security

Collaborate with the security team to conduct vulnerability assessments and implement mitigation strategies

Set up monitoring tools to monitor cloud infrastructure and applications

Optimize resource allocation to improve performance and reduce costs

Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure issues, ensuring minimal downtime and maintaining high availability

Integrate cloud services with existing CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment processes

Automate infrastructure deployment and configuration management

Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure repeatability, scalability, and consistency across environments

Collaborate with software engineers, operations, and security teams to ensure cloud infrastructure aligns with business needs

Provide technical guidance and support for teams working with cloud-based applications and services

Develop documentation and knowledge-sharing resources for cloud infrastructure and processes

Qualification

AWSAzureGCPTerraformCI/CDLinuxGitlabHelm chartsHashiCorp VaultKubernetesProblem-solvingCommunicationTeamworkOrganizational skillsSelf-motivated

Required

5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 3 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 0 years experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 9 years relevant experience

Must have the ability to obtain and maintain active Secret security clearance; Must be able to obtain at least an interim Secret clearance within 90 days of offer acceptance

Experience with the Linux operating system

Experience in building and maintaining physical and virtual servers

Extensive experience with Gitlab, including merge requests and branching strategies

Experience with the Gitlab CI/CD process using pipelines and Gitlab Runners

Experience with developing, updating and maintaining Helm charts used for deploying containerized applications

Experience with image registries such as Artifactory, Harbor and/or Nexus

Extensive experience with container image tagging

Experience utilizing HashiCorp Vault for secrets management

Experience utilizing JIRA ticketing systems

Experience with accurate and thorough documentation of processes utilizing Confluence

Experience with backend databases to include building, configuring, optimizing and maintaining as well as being able to view, manipulate and extract data from within the database

Possess the ability to maintain multiple application deployments across several separate network environments

Understands and determines sizing, capacity planning and requirements for infrastructure, network, and security in the cloud offering

Experience troubleshooting within cloud environments

Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ability to work both in a team and individually

Solid organizational skills, including attention to detail

Self-motivated and driven desire to succeed with minimal direction

Preferred

Experience deploying applications in cloud infrastructures such as Azure or AWS

Experience using common development environments or languages such as Go and Python

Experience with deploying and managing Prometheus and Grafana

Experience with Cybersecurity tools such as Trivy, Grype and Fortify

Knowledge of cluster security tools such as Istio

Experience with installing, maintaining and troubleshooting VMware infrastructure

Experience in maintaining an approved cyber posture on systems as well as applications

Experience with requesting, issuing, revoking and implementing SSL/TLS certificates

Experience with application data connections utilizing mTLS

Experience with ingress controllers

Experience deploying containerized applications utilizing ArgoCD

Experience managing Kubernetes cluster environments using Rancher and RKE2

Experience with authorization services such as LDAP, OAuth, OIDC and integrating these to secure RESTful APIs and microservices

Experience with being a member of an Agile Development team, with a strong focus on the SCRUM framework, including participation in stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives