Cloud Engineer - NGA

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting agency, is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer to support a long-term, mission-critical intelligence program in St. Louis, MO.

Seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to work on a cloud development and deployment team. The team is involved in the deployment and maintenance of multiple operational cloud-deployed software solutions. A successful candidate will have experience across all AWS Environments and be able to provide analysis and recommendations for architectural and configuration updates.

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborates with teams in the design and implementation of AWS system architectures to include operational status and security of government systems (Authority To Operate - ATO).
• Reviews and provides input to system requirements based on cybersecurity posture.
• Compiles industry best practices and lessons learned into future iterations and new designs.
• Provides architectural analysis of cloud configurations and connections.
• Supports the Engineering Review Board, evaluating artifacts for architectural compliance.
• Provides broad-based experience in the systems engineering lifecycle and applies the experience to specific AWS cloud initiatives relating to architectural design and development.
• Resolves architecture implementation issues during integration and testing.
• Provides support directly or through team management, including triaging system outages and ticket support resolution
• Advises and assists teams to deploy and configure collection services and tools with 99.9% uptime
• Works with team members to move data to the appropriate data stores and monitors dashboard metrics, including costs, computational utilization, and other future business needs
• Validates and manages government systems changes; creates, runs, and validates end-to-end testing

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience consulting, designing, and implementing distributed solutions and 3+ years' experience with cloud-based solutions (Cloud, SOA, Web-Services), including virtualization environment, network, and operating system experience
• Experience in AWS/Cloud technologies
• Subject Matter Expertise understanding across AWS cloud technologies including: EC2, PaaS (OpenShift), Lamdas, S3 buckets, Reserved Instances, etc.
• Understanding of code baseline management
• Utilization of the following: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Python, Gitlab, CloudFormation, Zabbix, HPFortify, ACAS, PostgreSQL, Scrum, Kanban, Terraform
• Knowledge of Systems, Architectural, SW Development, and SW Sustainment Practices
• Windows Domain Administrator of user accounts and group policy objects, and Linux administration
• Proactive self-starter demonstrates a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrates the ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work, follow tasks to their logical conclusion, and ensure everything has been completed to standard. Great attention to detail.
• Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently with team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon the audience and context.
• Must possess and maintain a TS/SCI Security Clearance
• Requires BS degree and & 4+ years of prior relevant experience OR, MS with 2+ years of prior relevant experience; OR 6 years of additional experience in lieu of degree
• Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, diagrams, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with NGA cloud-based architecture
• DoD 8570 Certification Compliance (IAT Level 2/3)
• NGA Privileged User Account (NPU)
• AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer, Certifications
• Experience with IC Cloud Architecture implementation methodologies
• Native cloud templating services like AWS CloudFormation
• Understanding of SFA organization; Aeronautical data and mission
• Experience with Aeronautical datasets
• Experience with CI/CD Pipelines and projects
• Experience with the Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) process of evaluating solution options

Work Schedule:

• M, W, F - Work from Home
• Tuesday - St. Louis, MO Office and/or NGA 2nd Street.
• Thursday - O'Fallon, IL Office
• AS NEEDED = Customer Site NGA 2nd Street - Anticipated 2 days per week
• *NOTE: The work schedule is approximate.* As-needed work location required based on tasking demands

Security Clearance Required: Top Secret/SCI clearance

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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