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Public Trust
Unspecified
Unspecified
IT - Hardware
Washington, DC (On-Site/Office)
Description:
We are looking for a Senior Principal Cloud Engineer to join our team.
Minimum 15+ years of IT experience. Must have a minimum of 10 years of related experience managing cloud environments, possessing extensive skills and knowledge in 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.
Demonstrated understanding of compute, network, and storage principles.
Demonstrated proficiency in managing a large Organization with Organization Units, Policies, and configurations to maintain compliance.
Must possess at least 1 Professional or Specialty certification from a cloud provider.
Hourly Rate: $85-95/hr. W2
Location: Washington, DC (Hybrid)
This is a contract-to-hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a W2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our W2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Responsibilities:
Job Role Specific Responsibilities:
Experience Requirements:
Job Role Specific Requirements:
Note: Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and
the ability to obtain a public trust
Education Requirements:
Job Role Specific Education:
Note: Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and the ability to obtain a public trust
We are looking for a Senior Principal Cloud Engineer to join our team.
Minimum 15+ years of IT experience. Must have a minimum of 10 years of related experience managing cloud environments, possessing extensive skills and knowledge in 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.
Demonstrated understanding of compute, network, and storage principles.
Demonstrated proficiency in managing a large Organization with Organization Units, Policies, and configurations to maintain compliance.
Must possess at least 1 Professional or Specialty certification from a cloud provider.
Hourly Rate: $85-95/hr. W2
Location: Washington, DC (Hybrid)
This is a contract-to-hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a W2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our W2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Responsibilities:
Job Role Specific Responsibilities:
- Solid experience with PrismaCloud platform and familiarity with PaloAlto services
- Support strategic cloud initiatives, such as TIC 3.0, Zero Trust Architectures, and DevSecOps by providing architectural guidance and hands on implementation approach
- Identify and communicate opportunities for improving agency security posture within cloud environments
- Collaborate with external development teams to validate solution architecture within agency cloud environment
- Identify opportunities to periodically review and improve Service Control Policies, Configs, remediations
- Monitor alerts for security upgrades and risks as well as notifications from AWS and Azure
- Design and buildout of AWS environments using the console, CLI, and Infrastructure as Code
- Deploy CloudFormation IAC stacks/sets across Accounts
- Support all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams (AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, cloud native services)
- Identify opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency
- Support migration of on-premise workloads to the cloud following agency governance and reference architectures
- Recommend enterprise design improvements to comply with Federal policies and standards
Experience Requirements:
Job Role Specific Requirements:
- Experience implementing, managing, and supporting security products to protect workloads in AWS
- Good understanding of FedRAMP services and best practices for their consumption by application workloads - examples include API Gateway, Lambda functions, Cognito, AWS Code Commit, and container services
- Experience assessing, customizing, troubleshooting, optimizing, and maintaining current and emerging technologies, platforms, and applications to help ensure greater security and efficiencies, inclusive of containers
- Demonstrated understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers.
- Demonstrated proficiency with implementing and managing AWS services via AWS Console or CLI of AWS accounts, IAM users, IAM roles, VPCs, load balancers.
- Experience managing AWS Public and GovCloud across regions.
- Experience with deploying stack sets and using AWS Control Tower.
- Good knowledge of GovCloud organizations provision accounts using Compliance Framework.
- Proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including use of remote APIs
- Experience with cloud orchestration tools and continuous delivery processes to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure for customers to consume
Note: Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and
the ability to obtain a public trust
Education Requirements:
Job Role Specific Education:
- Bachelor's degree is required.
- Must possess at least 1 Professional or Specialty certification from a cloud provider.
Note: Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and the ability to obtain a public trust
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