Cloud Systems Engineer, SME

About the position

M9 Solutions is seeking a Cloud Systems Engineer, SME to work on a government contract for a client located in San Diego, CA. An active TS/SCI clearance is required. M9 Solutions is dedicated to providing IT services and solutions to the Federal Government by mobilizing the right people, skills, clearance levels, and technologies to help organizations who desire improved performance and modern, sustainable change. M9 has provided quality IT services and support to more than 30 Federal Agencies and multiple commercial customers nationwide. Our capabilities include digital transformation, software development, cloud migration, applications & infrastructure, cybersecurity, data delivery & analytics, and IT talent solutions.

Responsibilities

• Join a team focused on building and maintaining the tooling and infrastructure used to automate the release, deployment, and upgrade processes for base cloud infrastructure.
• Work on developing the automated pipelines for cloud environments.
• Provide consulting services to application and infrastructure teams specific to automated build, test and release automation.
• Be responsible for the operations and operating environment for the DevOps platforms and drive troubleshooting efforts around incidents and outages.
• Design, write and deliver Infrastructure as Code software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of the cloud environment.
• Develop jobs for the deployment of various artifacts that support a continuous security updated environment.
• Participate in design and architecture discussions and build environments using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and configuration management tools like Ansible.
• Automate repetitive tasks to eliminate toil and drive consistency and repeatability.
• Incident response and root-cause analysis; support a blameless post-mortems culture.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI security clearance (TS/SCI with Poly is preferred).
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or information technology.
• 8+ years of direct experience.
• Security+ certification or the ability to obtain certification within 3 months of hire.
• Experience working in a security culture.
• Experience working with appropriate scripting languages and operating systems software (e.g., PowerShell, Bash).
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent configuration management tools.
• Flexibility in approach to finding solutions, ability to understand and act on customer needs and priorities, and ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Strong team building skills that enable collaboration and coordination within and across teams and functions.
• Ability to automate menial tasks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Azure, AWS, or similar cloud provider experience.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Diversity in driving the vision of the company