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Cloud Engineer

RCT Systems Inc

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Job Requirements

Reston, VA
Top Secret/SCI Polygraph Unspecified
Senior Level Career (10+ yrs experience)
$179,000 - $199,000

Job Description

Systems Engineer – Expert (Cloud Engineer)
Location: Reston
This position is for a Systems Engineer for a technical development program supporting two Cloud-based applications, and their associated cloud infrastructures located on a secure network. The Systems Engineer will work with a large team of developers, software engineers, cybersecurity engineers, database administrators, and system architects.
The systems engineer will be required to carry a duty phone on a rotational basis (once they have one year of experience on the team), and may need to come in to address system issues that arise. Core business hours are typically from 9 AM – 3 PM, five days a week. Hours can be flexible for either early arrivals, and/or late departures.
*** Applicants for this position are expected to have significant, hands-on systems engineering experience. ***

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensure designs are compatible with target architecture and consistent requirements allocated to segments

• Integrate systems and services for firewall and network components

• Working with the team’s security engineer to address and mitigate security findings stemming from system security scans

• Linux OS configuration, patching, and maintenance

• Identify and suggest risk mitigation techniques

• Integrate systems and services

Required Qualifications:
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

• Typically requires a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree and relevant experience as follows:

o Expert: 11-16 years of demonstrable experience

• Strong, hands-on experience with Linux (CLI)

• Experience with scripting and programming languages like BASH and Python

• Experience in working on teams utilizing Agile workflows and processes

• Hands on experience with scripting

Desired Qualifications:
• Experience working with CloudFormation / Puppet / Groovy, or other configuration and automation tools

• Network engineering troubleshooting between Cloud environments and non-Cloud environments

• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions such as Ansible / Terraform, or other configuration and automation tools

• Solid understanding of Web Application Firewall (WAF) configuration and management

• Experience with networking (e.g., ports, routing tables, subnets, VPNs, firewalls, routers, etc.) to include design, integration and troubleshooting issues

• Experience in working in a cloud-based environment (AWS)

• Experience with the installation, configuration of AIDE and other configuration management alerting capabilities

• Experience with maintaining COTS products (e.g., Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), Nexus, Jenkins)
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