Senior AWS Cloud Computing Engineer Job Listing at SAIC in Montgomery, AL (Job ID 2501102-3050)

Description

Description

SAIC is hiring an Senior AWS Cloud Computing Engineer to join our Cloud One team. The selected candidate must have a strong background in AWS GovCloud, and orchestration of Kubernetes deployments. Platform engineering/SRE experience is also a plus. The successful candidate will be part of a team developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code (CaC) for the architecture design/planning, management, support, and oversight of the Cloud One AWS common services platform across sandbox, development (IL2), integration, staging, and production (IL4/5/6) environments.

The Cloud Engineer will be supporting the Cloud One program under the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center Office for Network Integration (AFLCMC/HNI). Cloud One is an existing global, interconnected, virtualized, hybrid, and IT infrastructure hosting mission systems, applications, services, and data that serves the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and other Government Customers. Cloud One facilitates the Government's efforts to migrate applications to a cloud environment, allowing the closure of data centers to support the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) and allowing for increased operational efficiency across the entire spectrum of the USAF operations. 

This is a hybrid remote role that may be performed from any location within the United States with SIPRnet access. Colocation to a SIPR-capable Air Force base Gunter, Hanscom, Charleston SC, or any additional location with confirmed SIPRnet access, is preferred.

Job Responsibilities:

• Come up to speed quickly on a complex AWS GovCloud Organization spanning 800+ accounts
• Understand, evaluate, and suggest opportunities for modernization of enterprise platform services for Cloud One platform (Jenkins, Artifactory, Trend Micro, etc.)
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to align technical solutions to meet mission and organizational needs.
• Improve/automate routine tasks.
• Mentor system administrators and DevOps engineers with a focus towards increased automation/adherence to industry best practices.
• Design AWS environments and topologies, with an eye towards future multi-cloud adoption strategies.
• Integrate a multi-region AWS enterprise platform.
• Implement key features/architectural components in IaC/CaC/scripting languages (Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, Python, Java, JavaScript, Bash, PowerShell).

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree and nine (9) years or more of experience; Masters degree and seven (7) or more  years of experience.
• Additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.

Required Clearance:

• Secret clearance required
• US citizenship required

Required Certification:

• Security +, CISSP, etc

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 or more years of experience working in AWS/AWS GovCloud environments
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD best practices including GitOps and cATO workflows
• Experience implementing and integrating DevSecOps tool chains for cloud to include some of the following:
• Kubernetes cluster design, deployment, operations, and sustainment, including knowledge of key CNCF-graduated projects such as Istio
• Project Management Tools (e.g. Atlassian Tools, GitLab, Artifactory)
• Cloud-Native Monitoring Tools (e.g. AWS CloudWatch, Grafana stack)
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (e.g. Apache Guacamole, Amazon Workspaces, Azure Virtual Desktop, etc.)
• Identity Provider/Broker authentication flows (SSO, SAML, OIDC)
• Intermediate knowledge of standard DoD regulatory frameworks for securing cloud infrastructure (NIST 800-53, CIS benchmarks, application STIGs, etc.) with a desire to learn more about and build secure, maintainable applications.
• Demonstrated experience with customer contact and collaboration, design, implementation, and participation in project execution following Agile best practices.
• Experience preparing technical documentation for DoD stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, SAFe or other modern software development methods/practices.
• Ability to communicate engineering improvements/decisions in the context of improved capability for the warfighter.

Desired Qualifications:

• Prior experience working within the DoD DevSecOps ecosystem.
• Prior experience in/familiarity with the AF Software Factory ecosystem (Platform One, DAF CloudWorks, etc.).
• Experience supporting a Managed Service Provider (MSP).
• Prior experiencing successfully leading team-wide modernization efforts.
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional
• HashiCorp Terraform Operations & Authoring Professional w/ AWS
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• Istio Certified Associate (ICA)
• AWS Specialty – Security
• AWS Specialty – Networking

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

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