Cloud Engineer, Sr.

Cloud Engineer, Sr.
St. Louis, MO/Springfield, VA
$215k-$250k

Marathon TS is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to support an intelligence community customer in St. Louis,MO, or Springfield, VA. This position requires an active TS/SCI clearance.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions to support mission-critical operations. In this role, you will be responsible for automating the installation, configuration, and maintenance of cloud-based platform services, improving operational efficiency, system reliability, and overall performance.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools to automate and optimize service deployments within development, test, and production systems.
• Integrate with enterprise authentication services.
• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc.).
• Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents.
• Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage.
• Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation along with maintaining documentation and ensuring continuity of recurring tasks.
• Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing.
• Work with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems.
• Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion.
• Participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings.
• On-call support will be required.

Required Skills:

• AWS serverless infrastructure components.
• Willing to learn cross-domain services available at customer agency.
• A working understanding of TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Bash.
• Multi-platform integration (connecting processes and services between AWS, GitLab, OpenShift, Nexus, Self Service).
• GitLab CI/CD pipelines, typically centered around deploying or updating applications/services in OpenShift or AWS.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps and software/application development processes.
• Understanding of GitLab or other DevSecOps/Continuous Integration tools.
• Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design.
• 8+ years of relevant experience.

Desired Skills:

• Background as a system administrator.
• Cross Domain engineering.
• AWS Diode.
• Security+ Certification.
• Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.).
• Ability to write and use unit and functional testing.
• Experience using Jira and Confluence.
• Strong written and oral communication.
• Customer engagement

US Citizenship REQUIRED
TS/SCI CLEARANCE REQUIRED

Marathon TS is committed to the development of a creative, diverse and inclusive work environment. In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Marathon TS will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Marathon TS does not discriminate against any person because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age or any other characteristic protected by law (referred to as "protected status ").

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