Cloud Engineer/Architect (Active Top Secret Clearance Required)

Seneca Holdings - Washington, DC

Full-time - Mid Level

Washington, DC

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

The Cloud Engineer/Architect position at Great Hill Solutions involves designing and developing secure cloud infrastructure for the Department of State. The role requires expertise in various cloud platforms, including Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, and focuses on creating common services and ensuring compliance with security standards. The engineer will also be responsible for automating infrastructure migration and improving operational efficiency through best practices in cloud coding and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop a secure cloud infrastructure, including the development and deployment of common services.
• Identify hardware, software, and external service cost estimates and resource requirements.
• Inform stakeholders of the strategy for new implementation deployment and the maintenance and upgrades of existing equipment.
• Ensure compliance with incidents, problems, and change management procedures and execute ticket-based requests with minimal supervision.
• Participate in and manage technical project review meetings to ensure technical designs meet operational requirements and infrastructure/security standards.
• Develop a technology roadmap based on established client priorities to meet strategic engineering goals.
• Improve infrastructure operations through better use of monitoring, cloud coding, and scripting best practices.
• Deliver fully functioning network services with secure access points between the client environment and the commercial service provider environment.
• Understand software development and Agile best practices as they relate to work coordination, acceptance criteria, and deployment management.
• Lead the development of technical artifacts, such as Implementation Plans, System Administration Guides, Operational Turnover Plans, and System Security Plans.
• Automate infrastructure migration to cloud environments and identify on-premises technologies and their cloud counterparts.
• Support security engineering efforts, including perimeter security, encryption, micro-segmentation, and firewall configuration.
• Perform network engineering relating to security, segmentation, connectivity, and protocols.
• Focus on results and be delivery-oriented, with a keen interest in quality and the ability to meet deadlines.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret Clearance.
• Bachelor's Degree in a related field or equivalent experience plus at least three years of hands-on experience.
• At least 3 years of technology consulting or other relevant industry experience.
• Prior professional experience in IT Strategy, IT Business Management, Cloud & Infrastructure, or Systems Engineering.
• Experience working independently with minimal supervision and guidance.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with experience exercising mature judgment.
• Proven experience effectively prioritizing workload to meet deadlines and work objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to write clearly, succinctly, and appeal to a wide audience.
• Experience with migration strategies, including advisories on migration disposition/type (As-Is, Replatform to IaaS, Refactor to PaaS/Cloud Native, etc.).
• Experience with compute infrastructure, platform sizing, consolidation, tiered and virtualized storage, automated provisioning, rationalization, infrastructure cost reduction, and thin provisioning.
• Experience with operating systems and software, including upgrade planning and implementation, clustering and grid computing.
• Experience with open source, including sizing and performance analyses, selection and implementation, platform design, and selection.
• Experience with virtualization, including server, storage, desktop, network virtualization, and reducing sprawl.
• Experience with infrastructure-based processes, including monitoring, capacity planning, facilities management, performance tuning, asset management, disaster recovery, and data center support.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with servers, infrastructure, platform sizing, and infrastructure cost reduction.
• Possess one of the following certifications for the design/development of cloud platforms and/or applications using a cloud platform: Pivotal Cloud Foundry - Administrator or Developer.
• Possess any additional certifications (one or more) for the design/development of distributed solutions on a leading infrastructure platform such as: IBM Certified Solution Architect - Cloud Computing Infrastructure v3, Google Cloud Platform Qualified Developer, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, VMWare Certifications, Red Hat Certified Architect, AWS or Azure certifications.
• Experience with legacy system engineering assessments, discovering the build and details surrounding the system to re-build it in a new hosted environment.
• Ability to work with the client to create a Migration Plan, a detailed technical document illustrating the future state architecture of the system in its new environment, supporting the functionality of the system and meeting all required specifications for security, performance, and other criteria as indicated by the client.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental care
• Matching 401K
• Paid time off
• Flexible spending accounts
• Disability coverage
• Other benefits that help provide financial protection for you and your family