Senior Cloud Engineer (TS/SCI)
Springfield, VA, United States
Job Summary
We are seeking a Cloud Engineer to support a newly awarded, 10 year contract in Springfield, VA. This position requires a TS/SCI clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI polygraph.
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 customers technical support. The Cloud Engineer will be integrated with an agile environment participating with scrums and other meetings.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
Build and Maintain Platform as a Service Offering using RedHat OpenShift
Work with A&A Team to 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, ELB, and RDS
Maintain System in a VMware vSphere environment, using NSX, and NetApp StorageGRID
Automate and optimize service deployments
Required Skills: Prior experience building and maintaining Platform as a Service offerings via Cloud based providers
Strong understanding of RHEL/CentOS Linux distributions
Strong understanding of RedHat OpenShift and/or other Kubernetes distributions
Experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker)
Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services
Strong Troubleshooting skills
Experience in automating tasks using scripted languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Perl
Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology
Familiarity with DevOps development processes and Continuous Integration tools: GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus
Desired Skills: Experience administering production RedHat OpenShift clusters
Strong understanding of cloud APIs and interaction with the AWS/CLI
Exposure to Infrastructure as Code such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Salt or Terraform
Experience working with one or more Python, Ruby, or Java
Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g. VMWare)
Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Markdown, and portal development
Education/Qualifications: Bachelors Degree and 6+ years of experience or an equivalent years of education and years of experience
Active TS/SCI clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI polygraph
Benefits and Perks
Compensation Industry competitive salary well above market average
401K plan with 4% company match, immediately fully vested
Referral bonuses up to $7,500
100% company-paid benefits Cigna OAP $0 deductible Medical plan for employee + family
Vision and Dental plan for employee + family
Short Term Disability for employee
Long Term Disability for employee
Life Insurance for employee
Flexible Paid Time Off Policy 180 hours (minimum) per year of PTO with additional time at manager discretion
10+ Company Holidays per year
6 weeks paid maternity and paternity leave
Flexible work environment to accommodate commuting, family and personal schedules
Career Growth Company sponsored training and certifications
No questions asked professional/business/technical book reimbursement
Company paid training and conference attendance and travel expenses
Company Overview
Innovative Data Solutions (IDS) is a small business specializing in engineering and supporting mission critical IT infrastructure for the US Government Intelligence, Defense and Homeland Security communities.
Established in 2008, IDS has 14 years of experience delivering IT solutions to the Federal market. We're a small company of technology enthusiasts and we thrive on exceeding expectations. We specialize in Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise Storage, High Performance Computing, Cybersecurity and Data Analytics. Across these technology areas we provide full lifecycle services: strategy, design, implementation and operations.
IDS engineers are based in Washington, DC and St. Louis, MO and are experienced working with US Government installations across the US, Europe and Asia.
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