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Cloud Engineer

Gridiron IT Solutions

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Job Requirements

Washington, DC
Top Secret Polygraph not specified
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
$120,000 - $150,000

Job Description

Cloud Engineer

Work Type: Full Time
Location: Washington, DC (Hybrid)
Clearance: Top Secret

Job Description: GridIron IT is seeking a candidate to support our federal client’s mission to accelerate discovery and delivery of identity and network-based intelligence to counter national security threat actors by applying experience relevant in an intelligence domain. The appropriate candidate is required to have the following skills.

Duties:
Provide technical expertise in range of cloud technologies to include cloud development, cloud architecture, cloud system engineering, cloud security, DevSecOps engineering and operations and Agile development methodologies
Leads team on projects of various layers of complexity and creates solution involving or affecting financial, scheduling, methodology, tools and prepares long and short-range plans for application selection, system development, processes, procedures and producing methods
Acts as a liaison to take the project requirements from the customer and then translate that to a technical requirement
Manage the project stakeholders and works with them as a technical point of contact for everything related to cloud engineering
Plan, execute and close projects that meet or exceed customer expectation
Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
Implementing various development, testing, automation tools and IT Infrastructure
Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities
Setting up the tools and the required infrastructure
Defining and setting development, test, release, update and support the DevSecOps process
Have a technical skill to review, verify and validate the software code developed in the project
Troubleshooting the techniques and fixing the code bugs
Monitoring the process during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
Identifying and deploying security measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
Incident management and root cause analysis
Coordination and communication with team and with customers both external and internal
Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and customer

Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree and 4+ years of hands-on experience with Cloud Engineering/Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud Architecture Design: Foundation
Cloud Computing: Foundation
U.S. Citizenship and TS/SCI Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:
CompTIA Security +
AWS Certified Developer Associate or Solution Architect, Similar certification in Azure or GCP preferred
Certification in one of the Ci/CD tools preferrable Gitlab or Jenkins or attended courses in those
ITIL Certification a plus

Role Requirements:
Active TS/SCI
Part time or full time: Full Time
Co-location: High colocation, 70-80% onsite
Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Compensation and Benefits:
Salary Range: $120,000-150,000 (Compensation is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, work experience, skills, education, certifications, seniority, and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.)
Benefits: Gridiron offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), disability & ADD insurance, life and pet insurance to eligible employees. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 30 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Gridiron’s benefits programs.
Gridiron IT Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status or disability status.
Gridiron IT is a Women Owned Small Business (WOSB) headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area that supports our clients' missions throughout the United States. Gridiron IT specializes in providing comprehensive IT services tailored to meet the needs of federal agencies. Our capabilities include IT Infrastructure & Cloud Services, Cyber Security, Software Integration & Development, Data Solution & AI, and Enterprise Applications. These capabilities are backed by Gridiron IT's experienced workforce and our commitment to ensuring we meet and exceed our clients' expectations.
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