Cloud Engineer IV

$160,000 - $165,000/Yr

Chickasaw Nation Industries - Washington, DC

Full-time - Mid Level

Washington, DC

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and documenting high-quality technical solutions for a large and complex data system within the agency. This role requires a strong focus on cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability, automation, performance, and availability while adhering to security compliance and operational standards.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate provided documentation and make recommendations to the government on the acceptability of technical artifacts.
• Track and report commercial parity exceptions on a monthly basis to support the customer.
• Evaluate change/release notifications from CSPs and advise the government on the operational impact of those changes.
• Provide direction on designing cloud infrastructure capable of supporting applications in the cloud with an emphasis on scalability, automation, performance, and availability.
• Advise the user community on CSO adoption based on specific DoD use cases.
• Interact with CSPs on a weekly basis to discuss cloud adoption pipeline.
• Engage with CSPs on routine questions regarding DoD configuration, policy, and controls.
• Facilitate and attend multi-cloud technical exchange meetings.
• Develop and track DoD CSO demand tracking list for IC working groups.
• Work with Cyber PMO to ensure engineered solutions meet cyber compliance.
• Collaborate with DISA directorates to facilitate circuit connections at multiple classifications, Cloud Access Point (CAP) onboarding, and technical discussions for authorization (DoD PA).
• Assist in the systems test of tactical edge devices.
• Provide expertise on cloud implementations and research emerging trends and technologies related to cloud engineering.
• Implement prescribed solutions for various deployment models (Private, Public, Community, and Hybrid) and delivery models including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service.
• Aid in own self-development by being available and receptive to all training made available by the company.
• Plan daily activities within the guidelines of company policy, job description, and supervisor's instruction to maximize personal output.
• Keep own immediate work area in a neat and orderly condition to ensure safety of self and co-workers.

Requirements

• Must have Top Secret clearance which requires U.S. Citizenship.
• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 8 years' relevant experience, or equivalent combination of 15 years of education/experience.
• Certification at the IAT II is required, which can consist of: CCNA-Security, CYSA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP.
• Advanced understanding of distributed systems via on-prem, cloud-native, or hybrid computing.
• Familiarity with systems management concepts, processes, and standards, capacity and performance management and tuning, and storage and network management.
• Good understanding of infrastructure: AD, DNS, firewalls, load balancers, routing, switching, etc.
• Experience in building applications using programming languages.
• Experience in database systems.
• Experience in working with microservices and containerization, including virtualization, orchestration, cluster management, and container storage.
• Experience with scripting languages.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)
• STD/LTD/AD&D
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Training and Development Opportunities